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