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<div class="">FYI, at around 9:00am US Eastern today (in about 30 mins) the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) will be issuing a joint statement signed by over 50 organizations and 90 individuals expressing concern about recent proposals from the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to require disclosure of social media passwords as a condition of entry to the USA. </div>
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<div class="">The joint statement will be live at this URL:</div>
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<div class=""><a href="https://cdt.org/insight/no-to-dhs-social-media-password-requirement/" class="">https://cdt.org/insight/no-to-dhs-social-media-password-requirement/</a></div>
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<div class="">The Internet Society is a signatory. We will be supporting the announcement with our own statement at:</div>
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<div class=""><a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/public-policy/2017/02/internet-society-speaks-out-against-proposed-password-disclosure" class="">https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/public-policy/2017/02/internet-society-speaks-out-against-proposed-password-disclosure</a></div>
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<div class="">The full text of Kathy's statement is included below.</div>
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<div class="">Both statements will be promoted through out @InternetSociety channels on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, etc.</div>
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<div class="">We will also have an additional blog post about the danger of exposing social media passwords due to how they are linked to many other systems.</div>
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<div class="">Any amplification of any or all of these statements through your own or other social media channels would be greatly appreciated.</div>
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<div class="">Thank you,</div>
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<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class="">Internet Society speaks out against proposed password disclosure requirements</b></span></font></div>
<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">by Kathryn Brown</span></font></div>
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<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Today, the Internet Society, along with 50 organizations and trade associations and nearly 90 individual experts who care
deeply about an open, trusted Internet, expressed our deep concerns that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security may require individuals to disclose their social media account passwords as a condition of entry into the United States. Last week, the new U.S.
Secretary of Homeland Security indicated that the U.S. government is considering such a policy as an element of border screening.<br class="">
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We signed onto this statement because we believe that this policy would gravely undermine Internet security and would represent an alarming intrusion on individuals’ rights of expression, opinion and privacy. We also worry that other nations may replicate
this approach, leading to a cascading decline in Internet security for users across the globe. <br class="">
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The Internet Society is a global organization that is comprised of staff, chapters, members and volunteers around the world who all share a deep commitment to the ability of individuals to communicate freely and securely via the Internet. Coercive action
by a government to demand user passwords is contrary to our values and creates unacceptable risks to our community's ability to travel and communicate freely.<br class="">
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We remain committed to opposing policies such as this that would compromise global Internet security and place our community’s security and privacy in jeopardy.<br class="">
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Please join us in showing your support by sharing this statement across social channels. Together, we can send a strong message that this proposed policy approach is not acceptable.</span></font></div>
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