[Chapter-delegates] Dutch lawyers and journalists (and ISOC NL) sue government over NSA links

[alexander.blom at budgetphone.nl]

Followup from November post

The rebuttal from the state in said trial of citizens coalition against the Minister of Interior Affairs led to a stormy parliamentary debate last month, when it came to light that the sharing of data was actually in the opposite direction: it was the Dutch secret service AIVD that had shared 1.8 million call records it collected from satellite traffic (Afghanistan a.o.) with the NSA. This misinformation of parliament was almost the end of the political life of Minister Plasterk, and prompted the government to postpone granting more snooping permissions to our secret services . 




What happens next: 

The next stage of the court case will be a so called comparition of parties, where both parties have the opportunity to defend their case in a live hearing. Expected somewhere in May – August of this year. 

And we have been invited to intervene in the case of Big Brother Watch versus the United Kingdom, serving before the European Court of Human Rights, pls see Privacy Not Prism . This case is very similar to ours, and could mean a swift European opinion on the matter.  



What can you do to help?

Our case is about foreign intelligence agencies collecting information on Dutch citizens and organizations and sharing that information with their Dutch counterparts. Do you know of such cases, where foreign services have collected local information and then shared it with local secret services?




Thanks for your help,

All the best,




Alex Blom

ISOC NL







From: Alexander Blom
Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎November‎ ‎7‎, ‎2013 ‎10‎:‎15‎ ‎PM
To: Chapter Delegates




All,

Yesterday, the Dutch ISOC chapter joined a coalition of citizens, criminal lawyers and journalists in order to sue the Dutch minister of the Interior. Subject are the halfhearted confessions that the Dutch secret service (the AIVD) may be using NSA-data to illegally snoop on Dutch citizens. While the NSA data are illegal, the governement gives the impression that it considers the NSA to be a handy way to get around Dutch privacy laws. At ISOC NL, we felt that open internet means more than just the unobstructed routing of IP packets, and that an internet where all exchange of data is under surveillance 24/7 cannot be called open.

Please see http://cnnmon.ie/1fmUiyN for more.

There have been contributions from other chapters re this subject, let us continue sharing.

All the best,

Alex Blom
ISOC NL
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