the European Parliament has adopted a report which goes much further in the right direction as seen everything before any legislative body. It condemns the mass surveillance in the strongest conceivable legislative language, it dishonors the member states that have cooperated with the US NSA, and encrypting it names as a prerequisite for human rights first place.
The adopted report (PDF) is so chock full of very positive statements, it is difficult to know where to start. Let some of the key points adopted ...
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The European Parliament is in favor of strong encryption, and said in very strong words that no restrictions on encryption can be tolerated:
9. urges the EU itself, and especially the European Service external action, to use encryption in communications with the human rights activists, to avoid putting at risk human rights defenders and protect their own communications with the outside of supervision;
20. Urges the EU to fight against the criminalization of the use of encryption, censorship-circumvention tools and privacy of human rights activists by refusing to limit use of encryption within the EU, and challenge the governments of third countries that the level of these charges against the human rights activist;
21. Invites the EU to fight against the criminalization of the use of encryption, anti-censorship and privacy tools by refusing to limit the use of encryption within the EU, and by challenging third country governments that criminalize these tools;
45. Condemns the weakening and undermining of protocols and encryption products, particularly by the intelligence services seeking to intercept encrypted communications;
49. Calls explicitly to the promotion of tools for anonymous use and / or pseudonym of the Internet, and the challenges of unilateral vision that these tools serve only to allow criminal activity and not to empower activists of human rights beyond and within the EU;
61. calls each individual to be eligible for encryption, and the necessary conditions to enable encryption to be created; believes that the controls should be a question for the end user, who will need the skills to carry out such checks properly;
62. Requests the introduction of "end to end" encryption standards as a matter of course for all communication services in order to make it more difficult for governments, intelligence agencies and oversight bodies to play content;
The legislature condemns mass surveillance, and dishonors the Member States who have been complicit in it (short stops to appoint Britain, Sweden, Germany and France)
3. Considers that the active complicity of certain Member States of the European Union in monitoring the mass of the NSA citizens and spying on political leaders, such as revealed by Edward Snowden, has caused serious damage to the credibility of the human rights of EU policy and undermined global confidence in the benefits of ICT;
27. Recognizes mass surveillance that is not justified by an increased risk of terrorist attacks and threats to be in violation of the principles of necessity and proportionality, and therefore a violation of rights of man;
63. Stresses the special responsibility of government intelligence services to build trust, and calls for an end to mass surveillance; considers that the supervision of European citizens by national and foreign intelligence services must be addressed and stopped;
Neutrality demands of PE net and uncensored and unlimited access to the Internet, which is quite huge offer:
19 . Calls for the inclusion of clauses in all agreements with third countries that refer explicitly to the need to promote, preserve and protect digital freedom, net neutrality, uncensored and unlimited access to the internet, rights of privacy and data protection;
Finally,
10. Invites the European Union to adopt free software and open-source, and encourage others to do so, as such software provides better security and greater respect for human rights;
Not the first time the European Parliament calls for free software and open source, but it is nice to see this clear justification, which is new.
Overall, this report goes further than any report that I've seen before, and I would like to see many more things in this direction.
now, unfortunately, this report is not the law. It's sort of a request for legislation; it is an indication to the European Commission, who wrote the law, which the European Parliament will approve and what will not. But the European Parliament and the United States Congress and most other parliaments in the world, is like a demented parrot on these issues. They repeat that the statement they have heard the last sounds good, regardless of a possible conflict with the very previous statement because of a fundamental lack of understanding of the technical requirements to uphold human rights .
This means that when the lobby of the copyright industry then comes and says: "BUT BUT ERR JERBS" This statement will be repeated as, despite being in full conflict and Total with most or all of the points in this report. A large majority of the population in this legislature and other legislative bodies do not see what they just said to require human rights is totally incompatible with, for example, the maintenance and enforcement of monopoly of copyright on the Internet.
For example, when someone remarked that "uncensored and unrestricted access to the Internet" categorically excludes any censorship court ordered The Pirate Bay, legislators are likely to be a medical case study to explain how the two can be filled at the same time, they can of course. This should change with the next generation of legislators, people of net production. Meanwhile, we have to keep monitoring sufficient mass to Bay still have any freedom left when they take the reins.
Meanwhile, privacy and other freedoms remain your own responsibility.
H / t Hax.
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