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- My name is Daniel O'Brien. I'm the International Director of the Electronic
- Frontier Foundation and in response to the many requests to prioritize the
- prevention of mass surveillance here today, I and a community of [over 100
- civil society organizations](http://bestbits.net) from the North and the Global
- south suggest this addition to paragraph 5: "Mass surveillance is a direct and
- imminent threat to privacy. Therefore, societies must not be placed under
- surveillance. Similarly, anonymity and encryption should be protected as a
- prerequisite for privacy and freedom of expression. The [International
- Principles of the Application of Human Rights to Communication
- Surveillance](https://necessaryandproportionate.net/take-action/EFF) (the
- Necessary and Proportionate Principles), should be the vantage point of this
- discussion." Thank you.
- There are also some additions to the paragraph on security, [paragraph 11](http://document.netmundial.br/1-internet-governance-principles/#hSsarotIpsbakoasigAugrrssrtnEarttsdoscad). "The
- security, stability, and resilience of the internet."
- There's a key word in this principle which we should emphasize, "trustworthy".
- Trust is vital to security and stability. Users need to be able to trust in the
- privacy and integrity of their communications, which means an internet free of
- security vulnerabilities, free of backdoors unknown to end users and a network
- that is not undermined by attempts by states or others to warp the resilient
- nature of a decentralized internet in order to make it more malleable to
- control or monitoring. Critical internet and intermediate infrastructure must
- not be tampered with in the service of surveillance. Personal computing devices
- lie at the core of our personal lives and their sanctity must not be violated.
- Secrecy undermines trust and secrecy undermines security. Security through
- obscurity is rightfully rejected in the Internet tradition and so it should be
- in the Internet of the future.
- We call for keeping the term "trustworthy" in this principle and the insertion
- of "strong and transparent cooperation among all stakeholders."
- We also call for the addition of the sentence, "The increasing militarization
- of the internet undermines its integrity, security, and potential to benefit
- humanity." Thank you.
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