<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div class="" id="magicdomid43"><br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid43">Alle hens aan dek!</div><div class="" id="magicdomid43"><br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid43">Deadline: Aanstaande vrijdag.</div><div class="" id="magicdomid43">Pad: <a href="https://pad.piratenpartij.nl/p/SOS">https://pad.piratenpartij.nl/p/SOS</a></div><div class="" id="magicdomid43">Terminologie vertalen: <a href="http://iate.europa.eu">http://iate.europa.eu</a></div><div class="" id="magicdomid43"><br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid43">Deze text is ter ondersteuning voorgelegd aan verschillende PP's en opgesteld door een groep onafhankelijke international piraten, aangevoerd door de Oostenrijkse Piratenpartij.</div><div class="" id="magicdomid43">Uiterlijk Vrijdag zal deze tekst op een meertalige website worden gepubliceerd.</div><div class="" id="magicdomid43">Jij kan aan het succes van de campagne bijdragen!</div><div class="" id="magicdomid43"><br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid43">Piratenpartij Nederland heeft nog geen besluit genomen aangaande het ondersteunen van de verklaring, maar wel heeft een enkeling Ledenraad lid bezwaar gemaakt voor Nederlandse steun omdat _Ik_ betrokken ben bij het project.</div><div class="" id="magicdomid43">Kwestie van partijcultuur / op de man i.p.v op de bal spelen. Beklag kan je doen bij <a href="mailto:ledenraad@piratenpartij.nl">ledenraad@piratenpartij.nl</a> en op de ALV. ( Mits ze niet allemaal te druk bezig zijn met vergadercultuur. )</div><div class="" id="magicdomid43"><br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid43">Mvrg,</div><div class="" id="magicdomid43"><br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid43">Samir</div><div class="" id="magicdomid43"><br></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid5268"><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y">------- Text -------</span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid47"><br></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid3244"><span class="">We are appalled to learn of the unprecedented surveillance of </span><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y">i</span><span class="">nternet
users worldwide through PRISM and similar programs. Blanket
surveillance capabilities such as these, especially when implemented
without citizens' scrutiny, seriously threaten the human rights to free
speech and privacy and with them the foundations of our democracies.</span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid49"><br></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid236"><span class="">We
applaud whisteblower Edward Snowden for his actions. When a government
is truly by the people and for the people, it cannot be a crime to leak
information on the course and extent of actions by the government, in
the name of its citizens, for the claimed purpose of protecting them. A
representative government in a democracy relies on the consent of its
people. However, such consent cannot exist when the citizens are not
fully informed.</span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid51"><br></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid3218"><span class="">We
note with alarm the complete lack of regard the US government is
showing for the rights of European citizens and, more generally, anyone
who uses US-based communication services and infrastructure. We also
note the negative effect on its allies</span><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y">,</span><span class=""> the sovereignty of the affected countries</span><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y"> and the</span><span class="author-g-2uu412iytqm752c2">ir</span><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y"> competitiveness</span><span class="author-g-2uu412iytqm752c2">.</span></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid5047"><br></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid5048"><span class="">Europe
must respond to these revelations with due resolve. In light of this
situation, it is important that the European Union, rather than
remaining complicit with this abuse of powers that comes at an untenable
cost to society, becomes a worldwide beacon for digital rights and
privacy protection, government transparency and whistleblower
protection.</span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid55"><br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid56"><span class="">We, the undersigned, call for the following:</span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid57"><br></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid852"><span class="b"><b>1. Asylum and Protection for Whistleblowers</b></span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid59"><br></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid1340"><span class="">The
US government has demonstrated – in the cases of Bradley Manning and
others – that its treatment of whistleblowers is a cause for grave
concern. The public labeling of Edward Snowden as a “traitor” by various
US officials and media has created a climate in which he cannot be
assured to receive a fair trial. He might be subject to persecution for
his political belief in government transparency, and would certainly be
in danger of facing inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment,
including the threat of the death penalty.</span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid61"><br></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid1209"><span class="">We
call on all governments of Europe to treat sympathetically any
applications for political asylum or subsidiary protection status by Mr.
Edward Snowden and other whistleblowers and to speedily expedite any
such applications.</span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid63"><br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid64"><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y i"><i>Background information:</i></span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid65"><ul class="list-bullet1"><li><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y">Snowden fears not getting a fair trial: </span><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y url"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-nsa-files-whistleblower#block-51bf1112e4b0239b85d8c67f">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-nsa-files-whistleblower#block-51bf1112e4b0239b85d8c67f</a></span></li></ul></div><div class="" id="magicdomid66"><ul class="list-bullet1"><li><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y">Statements by US gov't officials: </span><span class="author-g-l9b79nl2i77hhjhv url"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#United_States_government">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#United_States_government</a></span></li></ul></div><div class="" id="magicdomid67"><ul class="list-bullet1"><li><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y">SUBSIDIARY PROTECTION </span><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y url"><a href="http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32004L0083:en:HTML">http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32004L0083:en:HTML</a></span><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y"> Article 15</span></li></ul></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid1322"><ul class="list-bullet2"><li><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y">"QUALIFICATION
FOR SUBSIDIARY PROTECTION ... ( a) death penalty or execution; or (b)
torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment of an applicant
in the country of origin" ....</span></li></ul></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid3494"><ul class="list-bullet1"><li><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y">Treason: </span><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y url"><a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2381">http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2381</a></span></li></ul></div><div class="" id="magicdomid69"><br></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid3495"><span class="b"><b>2. Uncover the Facts</b></span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid71"><br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid72"><span class="">It
is unacceptable that secret surveillance capabilities and practices
circumvent democratic processes and prevent the critical, rational
engagement necessary in a democracy to determine due and undue courses
of action.</span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid73"><br></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid250"><span class="">We
call on the European Parliament to form a committee of inquiry
according to Article 185 of its rules of procedure. The facts to
establish and publish are:</span></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid432"><ul class="list-bullet1"><li><span class="">What are the true capabilities of PRISM?</span></li></ul></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid2058"><ul class="list-bullet1"><li><span class="">What data feeds and sources does it use?</span></li></ul></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid2059"><ul class="list-bullet1"><li><span class="">Which
administrative bodies of the EU and its member states have had
knowledge of or access to PRISM and similar programs or data from them?</span></li></ul></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid3757"><ul class="list-bullet1"><li><span class="">To what extent have the Charter of Fundamental Rights, the Data Protection Directive, or any other EU laws been violated?</span></li></ul></div><div class="" id="magicdomid77"><br></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid1210"><span class="">We
extend this call to all national parliaments – to investigate whether
national constitutions, data protection laws and espionage laws have
been violated.</span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid79"><br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid80"><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y i"><i>Background information:</i></span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid81"><ul class="list-bullet1"><li><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y">EP Article 185 </span><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y url"><a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+RULES-EP+20130521+RULE-185+DOC+XML+V0//EN&language=EN&navigationBar=YES">http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+RULES-EP+20130521+RULE-185+DOC+XML+V0//EN&language=EN&navigationBar=YES</a></span></li></ul></div><div class="" id="magicdomid82"><ul class="list-bullet1"><li><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y">Directive 95/46/EC </span><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y url"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive</a></span></li></ul></div><div class="" id="magicdomid83"><ul class="list-bullet1"><li><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y">Echelon commission report </span><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y url"><a href="http://cryptome.org/echelon-ep-fin.htm">http://cryptome.org/echelon-ep-fin.htm</a></span></li></ul></div><div class="" id="magicdomid84"><ul class="list-bullet1"><li><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y">German consitution may have been violated, if the German goverment knew about PRISM </span><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y url"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tpQHEBwcOs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tpQHEBwcOs</a></span></li></ul></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid1696"><ul class="list-bullet1"><li><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y">Charter </span><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y url"><a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/charter/default_en.htm">http://www.europarl.europa.eu/charter/default_en.htm</a></span></li></ul></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid1881"><ul class="list-bullet1"><li><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y">Allegations of GCHQ involvement: </span><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y url"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jun/07/uk-gathering-secret-intelligence-nsa-prism">http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jun/07/uk-gathering-secret-intelligence-nsa-prism</a></span></li></ul></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid1978"><ul class="list-bullet1"><li><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y">Allegations of Netherland involvement: </span><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y url"><a href="http://www.dailydot.com/news/dutch-netherlands-prism-intelligence-spying/">http://www.dailydot.com/news/dutch-netherlands-prism-intelligence-spying/</a></span></li></ul></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid2157"><br></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid3758"><span class="b"><b>3. Strengthen European Data Protection</b></span></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid3759"><br></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid6152"><span class="">The
General Data Protection Regulation currently under consideration must
be strengthened to ensure a broad and far-reaching protection of private
and business data. The lobbying efforts to the contrary must be
resisted.</span></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid3761"><br></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid3762"><span class="">Specifically,
European citizens' data must not knowingly be surrendered to US
intelligence agencies. Article 42 from the first leaked draft proposal,
which addressed extra-territorial actions by third countries such as the
USA Patriot Act and the USA Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and
imposed barriers for foreign judicial authorities to access European
data, must be reintroduced.</span></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid3763"><br></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid3764"><span class="">According
to the International Safe Harbor Privacy Principles, US companies must
inform users when granting access to their data to third parties. It
appears that companies participating in the PRISM program violated these
provisions. In response, the EU must cancel the agreement to these
Principles (Commission Decision 2000/520/EC), making the affected
companies subject to European courts should they not cease these
practices immediately. Safe Harbor must then be renegotiated with more
effective safeguards and recourse mechanisms in place; or replaced by a
new international agreement on data protection, e.g. based on the
principles of the General Data Protection Regulation.</span></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid2387"><br></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid2270"><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y i"><i>Background information:</i></span></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid2271"><ul class="list-bullet1"><li><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y url"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Safe_Harbor_Privacy_Principles">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Safe_Harbor_Privacy_Principles</a></span></li></ul></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid2272"><ul class="list-bullet1"><li><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y url"><a href="http://www.delegedata.de/2013/06/project-prism-wie-sicher-ist-safe-harbor/">http://www.delegedata.de/2013/06/project-prism-wie-sicher-ist-safe-harbor/</a></span></li></ul></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid2273"><ul class="list-bullet1"><li><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y url"><a href="http://www.galexia.com/public/research/assets/safe_harbor_fact_or_fiction_2008/safe_harbor_fact_or_fiction-6_1_.html">http://www.galexia.com/public/research/assets/safe_harbor_fact_or_fiction_2008/safe_harbor_fact_or_fiction-6_1_.html</a></span></li></ul></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid2340"><ul class="list-bullet1"><li><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y">Safe Harbor Commission Decision: </span><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y url"><a href="http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32000D0520:EN:HTML">http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32000D0520:EN:HTML</a></span></li></ul></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid2319"><ul class="list-bullet1"><li><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y url"><a href="http://protectmydata.eu/articles/articles-41-50/article-42/">http://protectmydata.eu/articles/articles-41-50/article-42/</a></span></li></ul></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid2320"><ul class="list-bullet1"><li><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y url"><a href="https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2013/how-the-eu-commission-caved-to-us-demands-to-water-down-its-privacy-law">https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2013/how-the-eu-commission-caved-to-us-demands-to-water-down-its-privacy-law</a></span></li></ul></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid2321"><ul class="list-bullet1"><li><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y url"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation</a></span></li></ul></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid2322"><ul class="list-bullet1"><li><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y url"><a href="http://lobbyplag.eu">http://lobbyplag.eu</a></span></li></ul></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid2931"><br></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid3336"><span class="b"><b>4. Spearhead an International Treaty on the Freedom of the Internet</b></span></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid3765"><br></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid3766"><span class="">To
ensure that the internet remains an empowering and democratizing force
rather than continuing to be used as a tool to limit and curtail
democracy and individual liberty, the EU should spearhead an
international Treaty on the Freedom of the Internet. Such a treaty
should strongly protect confidentiality of communications, freedom of
expression and access to information specifically as they pertain to the
internet.</span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid114"><br></div><div class="" id="magicdomid115"><ul class="list-bullet1"><li><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y url"><a href="http://www.pirati.cz/program/dokumenty/mezinarodni_smlouva_internet">http://www.pirati.cz/program/dokumenty/mezinarodni_smlouva_internet</a></span></li></ul></div><div class="" id="magicdomid116"><ul class="list-bullet1"><li><span class="author-g-uja4x8c55yu4c91y url"><a href="http://wiki.piratenpartei.de/Bundestagswahl_2013/Wahlprogramm#ILA_.E2.80.93_International_Liberty_Agreement">http://wiki.piratenpartei.de/Bundestagswahl_2013/Wahlprogramm#ILA_.E2.80.93_International_Liberty_Agreement</a></span></li></ul></div><div class="" id="magicdomid117"><br></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid3532"><span class="b"><b>5. Prevent a European PRISM</b></span></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid3533"><br></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid3767"><span class="">We propose legislative measures to strengthen the defence against similar agency overreach in Europe.</span></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid3768"><br></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid3599"><span class="">Direct
taps by governmental agencies into backbone internet communication
channels, such as the ones reportedly installed by the NSA as part of
the BLARNEY program, must be explicitly outlawed. Such taps allow
storing and datamining of all internet communications, bypassing all
other controls and procedures and compromising all confidential data and
everyone's privacy. Breaching the integrity of the network
infrastructure in this unacceptable way undermines the confidence in the
entire internet and threatens all its benefits.</span></div><div class="" id="magicdomid123"><br></div><div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid6153"><span class="">We
also renew our calls for the repeal of the Data Retention Directive.
The Czech and Romanian constitutional courts explicitly concluded that
broad and suspicionless data retention is a fundamental breach of basic
human rights. By establishing the collection of large amounts of data
without court approved suspicion, data rention programs enable the kind
of executive overreach that continues on platforms such as PRISM,
threatening the separation of powers between the executive and the
judiciary which is at the basis of our democracies.</span></div></body></html>