Source: EDRI-gram
The letter of 17 May 2012, addressed to WCIT organiser, the International Telecommunication Union, the Council Working Group to Prepare for the WCIT-12 and to ITU member states, is asking for more transparency and expresses the wish of the signatories to participate in the preparation process for WCIT.
Tag Archives: civil society
Civil society concerns over Internet regulation and ITU
May 23, 2012 – 6:06 am
Open letter to the International Telecommunications Union
May 17, 2012 – 6:09 am
In December 2012, the International Telecommunication Union will convene a meeting of the world’s governments to renegotiate the ITU’s underlying treaty, the International Telecommunications Regulations.
Getting users into identity governance
May 2, 2012 – 12:19 pm
Citizen Lab Post-Doctoral Fellow Brenden Kuerbis analyzes the latest development in the debate over Internet identity governance with a focus on the issue of public involvement.
Police tracking of cellphones raises privacy fears in U.S.
April 1, 2012 – 2:20 pm
Source: Eric Lichtblau, New York Times
Law enforcement tracking of cellphones, once the province mainly of federal agents, has become a powerful and widely used surveillance tool for local police officials, with hundreds of departments, large and small, often using it aggressively with little or no court oversight, documents show.
Access calls on Human Rights Council to protect digital rights
February 17, 2012 – 3:12 pm
Source: Access
Throughout 2011, citizens across the world organized online to demand the enjoyment of their human rights, in particular the rights to opinion, expression and association.
The need to protect the internet from ‘astroturfing’ grows ever more urgent
February 23, 2011 – 12:05 pm
“Every month more evidence piles up, suggesting that online comment threads and forums are being hijacked by people who aren’t what they seem.
The anonymity of the web gives companies and governments golden opportunities to run astroturf operations: fake grassroots campaigns that create the impression that large numbers of people are demanding or opposing particular policies. Companies now use “persona management software”, which multiplies the efforts of each astroturfer, creating the impression that there’s major support for what a corporation or government is trying to do.
Software like this has the potential to destroy the internet as a forum for constructive debate, as it jeopardises the notion of online democracy.”
From The Guardian
