Presented at
The Eleventh HOPE (2016),
July 22, 2016, 4 p.m.
(60 minutes)
A handful of representatives from governments, the private sector, and civil society comprise an international working group of the Freedom Online Coalition (called "An Internet Free and Secure") that is tasked with harmonizing human rights and security. But protected rights like privacy and free speech already <em>are</em> security. Rights and security are not antithetical; they are compatible. Government power and corporate profits fuel the rights versus security narrative that has dominated the U.S. and Europe since the introduction of the U.S. Patriot Act. To dislodge this dominant narrative, this panel has developed over the course of two years a human rights respecting definition of cyber security and a normative statement of policy recommendations for how cyber security policy should be written and implemented if it is to truly be secure, e.g. to protect human rights.
Presenters:
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Sacha van Geffen
Sacha van Geffen is the managing director of Greenhost, a Dutch web hosting company dedicated to providing a sustainable Internet infrastructure and protecting digital civil rights. He is co-author of Basic Internet Security (a manual primarily for journalists on securing online communication) and a participant in the broader effort to build more secure systems.
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Mallory Knodel
Mallory Knodel is the technology policy lead and sysadmin for the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), a member of May First/People Link's steering committee, and on the executive board of eQualit.ie.
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Camille Francoise
Camille Francoise is a fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and at the Yale Law School Information Society Project. A Fulbright fellow, she is also a visiting scholar at Columbia University's Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, where she consulted for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on cybersecurity.
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