Today, in recognition of The Day We Fight Back, many companies and organizations are speaking up about the need for reforms to government surveillance practices across the globe. As an industry, we have recently announced principles of reform that advance global norms of free expression and privacy and ensure that law enforcement and intelligence efforts are rule-bound, narrowly tailored, transparent, and subject to oversight. As we made clear last month, we again urge governments to enact reforms that would put the following principles into action: 1) Limiting governments’ authority to collect users’ information to specific, known users for lawful purposes with no bulk data collection of Internet communications; 2) Robust oversight and accountability for intelligence agencies under a clear legal framework, independent judicial review, an adversarial process, and public court decisions; 3) Transparency about the number and nature of government demands for user information; 4) Information should be allowed to flow freely across borders without a requirement that service providers to locate infrastructure within a country’s borders; and 5) Avoiding conflicts among governments through a robust, principled, and transparent framework governing lawful requests for data across jurisdictions, such as improved mutual legal assistance treaty – or “MLAT” – processes. We strongly encourage all governments to adopt these principles and we will continue to be aggressive advocates for more transparency and surveillance reform
Posted on: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 11:35:07 +0000
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