[Chapter-delegates] Putting substance behind our privacy statement

[Dave Burstein]

Folks

Kudos to the staff for the work they've done. Now, we need to follow up by
doing more. Alejandro had some ideas and I'm sure many more of you do.

   Let's bring them forth. It's a good time for chapters to become more
active, making ISOC itself more effectively multi-stakeholder and bringing
in more activity outside the DC and Geneva hubs.

   One action is to look at ISOC's own policies and recognize that some
have a dual purpose. Many of our policies call for reducing regulation,
which reduces direct government restrictions of freedom. But our policies
also sometimes restrict actions that can better protect privacy and users'
security.

    For example, ISOC favored U.S. State opposition to the proposal at ITU
WCIT that nations could request their transit suppliers to use a preferred
route. For example, Egypt might request that traffic from Spain and France
be routed through North Africa rather than Italy. That would be a sensible
request if Egypt had reason to suspect that <one country> had particularly
effective interception capabilities in Italy. (You don't have to be
paranoid to see many historical connections between the CIA and their
Italian counterparts. Egypt appeared on heat maps as one of the most spied
on countries under PRISM.)

   While such restrictive routing is a minor problem for web carriers, I
believe it practical at very modest additional cost. I think ISOC should
re-examine this issue in light of the obvious security possibilites.

   Let's have some more ideas.

db



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