An upcoming meeting of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in Dubai in December is widely tipped - and denied - as being the kickoff of a international power-grab for governance and control over the Internet.

Some are positioning it as an attempt by the ITU to regain some of its otherwise shrinking remit and power, others as a kind of US "imperialism" over the net, whilst yet others see ITU control as a lever by which network freedoms can be diluted by the likes of Russia and China.

Coverage includes:

The ITU WCIT And Internet Freedom 
http://publicknowledge.org/blog/itu-wcit-and-internet-freedom

US resists control of internet passing to UN agency 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19106420

Vint Cerf on U.N. regulation of the internet (audio podcast) 
http://surprisinglyfree.com/2012/09/25/vint-cerf-on-u-n-regulation-of-the-internet/

Dominique Lazanski is an independent consultant and head of digital policy at the TaxPayers' Alliance and will be attending the upcoming ITU meeting; in our pub meet she will discuss what is know of the proposals, the potential risks raised by ITU governance, and the potential impacts upon liberty.


Dominique Lazanski - Should the UN take over the Internet?

ORG-London: "The #TwitterJokeTrial and Beyond"

David Allen Green, speaker.

If you want to know more about the tribulations of the Communications Act 2003 Section 127, see:

http://www.openrightsgroup.org/issues/section127

David Allen Green - The #TwitterJokeTrial and Beyond

Open Rights Group Executive Director Jim Killock discusses the dangers stemming from the UK Government's failure to evaluate the privacy risks of their Test and Trace Programme.

Learn more here:
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/demand-privacy-protections-for-test-trace/

Jim Killock talks Test & Trace on BBC Radio - July 2020

By the summer, Europe will have decided on some of the most far-reaching and controversial privacy legislation in the world, that is the Data Protection Regulation.

In that podcast, ORG have invited some experienced personalities to give us a professional opinion about two of the most controversial issues around the draft: the definition of personal data and consent.

In order of appearance: Anna Fielder (consumer rights advocate), Nick Stringer (director of Regulatory Affairs of the Internet Advertising Bureau), Jan Philipp Albrecht (Group of the Greens Member of European Parliament), Jeffrey Chester (the executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy) and Axel Voss (Group of the European People's Party Member of European Parliament).

Music:
<a href="http://ccmixter.org/files/trifonic/445">Bored on Your Backside by Trifonic</a>
<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/nc-sampling+/1.0/">cc-nc-sampling+</a>

<a href="https://soundcloud.com/openrightsgroup/data-protection-regulation-2">Follow this link to listen to the second part of the pocast</a>

Data Protection Regulation Debate: part 1

Open Rights Group have invited some experienced personalities to give us a professional opinion about the Data Protection Regulation draft. In the second part of the podcast, they discuss about the proposal balance between different interests and the massive lobbying campaign that the issue has arised.

In order of appearance: Nick Stringer (director of Regulatory Affairs of the Internet Advertising Bureau), Jan Philipp Albrecht (Group of the Greens Member of European Parliament), Jeffrey Chester (the executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy), Axel Voss (Group of the European People's Party Member of European Parliament) and Anna Fielder (consumer rights advocate).

Music:
<a href="http://ccmixter.org/files/trifonic/445">Bored on Your Backside by Trifonic</a>
<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/nc-sampling+/1.0/">cc-nc-sampling+</a>

<a href="https://soundcloud.com/openrightsgroup/data-protection-regulation-1">Follow this link to listen to the first part of the pocast</a>

Data Protection Regulation Debate: part 2

Giving a preview of his talk, David Smith goes through his view of Data Protection Regulation he will go in depth in the ORGCon North. More previews to come.

Join us at <a href="http://www.openrightsgroup.org/events">ORGCon North 2013</a>. ORGCon North is a new digital freedom conference, this year to be held in Manchester at the Friends Meeting House. Get your tickets now: <a href="http://orgconorth.eventbrite.com">eventbrite.com</a>

David Smith: ORGCon North

Giving a preview of her talk, Judith Rauhofer goes through her view of Data Protection Regulation she will go in depth in the ORGCon North. More previews to come.

Join us at <a href="http://www.openrightsgroup.org/events">ORGCon North 2013</a>. ORGCon North is a new digital freedom conference, this year to be held in Manchester at the Friends Meeting House. Get your tickets now: <a href="http://orgconorth.eventbrite.com">eventbrite.com</a>

Judith Rauhofer: ORGCon North

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