[anti-abuse-wg] CleanIT: Unanswered question from chat

Hi there,

since we have been a bit short in time yesterday, we were not able to 
bring up all the questions asked in the chat. So I thought let's send 
them over to But Klaasen and ask for response.

Questions was: (and sorry can't remember the username who asked it)

"Given that some of the proposal have a clear impact on the fundamental 
rights of internet users and given the fact that several government 
institutions are involved in delivering objectives, shouldn't these 
proposed restrictions based on formal law? Such rules must be created in 
full transparency and the parliament must be able to reject proposals w/ 
restrictions on freedom of communications and privacy when it sees fit."

Answer from But Klaasen:

In the first place the clean IT project does not create formal rules. 
But we might come up with a call for better regulation. In that case 
governments will follow formal procedures and parliament is always 
involved. No misunderstanding about that.

With regard to the best practices: any action taken to reduce the 
terrorist use of the internet, will respect fundamental rights and 
freedoms, including access to the Internet, freedoms of assembly and 
expression, privacy and data protection. This is clearly stated in 
general principle nr. 11 in our draft document (version august 14).

But I am not sure that this is the real issue here. It seems like there 
are two questions at stake:

1. Will the best practices in the final document comply with this 
general principle #11?
2. Is the Clean IT group powered to judge on that?

Is this the right interpretation of the question?
If not, could you ask to specify the question?

Anyway we will be happy to take this question into the group. Maybe we 
can invite the one(s) that have posed this question to participate in 
the discussion about this?



Hope this answers is helpful.

Thanks,

Tobias
-- 
AA-WG Co-Chair