US Working To Kill UN Privacy Resolutions

schwit1 writes with a short excerpt from The Cable "The United States and its key intelligence allies are quietly working behind the scenes to kneecap a mounting movement in the United Nations to promote a universal human right to online privacy, according to diplomatic sources and an internal American government document obtained by The Cable. American representatives have made it clear that they won't tolerate such checks on their global surveillance network." A leaked memo containing U.S. suggestions for changes to the ICCPR includes gems like (referring to intercepting communications) "Move 'may threaten' from before 'the foundations of a democratic [society]...' to before 'freedom of expression.' We need to clarify that privacy violations could 'interfere with' freedom of expression and avoid the inaccurate suggestion that all privacy violations are violations of freedom of expression." The U.S. changes are pretty much directed at making dragnet surveillance of non-citizens technically legal.

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And this is why Schneier undid 10 years NSA work

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And this is why Schneier undid 10 years NSA work on subverting encryption algorithms. Terrorists are a miniscule threat compared to our Governments and Secret Services

The US no longer has a legitimate "government (..) for the people." The UK never did, except occasionally by chance.

We know that power like this is abused and attracts those who will abuse it. We must consider whether we want our children to live in a free country.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

We need to support projects like MailPile and BitMessage. Maybe some of you know of or are working on other projects you'd care to mention.