Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItIsrael,South AfricaPolandSlovakiaCroatia’sBulgaria,Peruegularly Peru has declared a state of emergency in conflict rural areas   to defend their land, the environment, and their rights.  South KoreaEcuador,"While we recognize the severity of the current health crisis and acknowledge that the use of emergency powers is allowed by international law in response to significant threats, we urgently remind States that any emergency responses to the coronavirus must be proportionate, necessary and...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItIsrael,South AfricaPolandSlovakiaCroatia’sBulgaria,Peruegularly Peru has declared a state of emergency in conflict rural areas   to defend their land, the environment, and their rights.  South KoreaEcuador,"While we recognize the severity of the current health crisis and acknowledge that the use of emergency powers is allowed by international law in response to significant threats, we urgently remind States that any emergency responses to the coronavirus must be proportionate, necessary and...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItBelow, we will take a deep dive into a series of questions and answers to explain why the current language of two critical issues of the Senate’s bill would undermine human rights:PROBLEM I: A tech mandate to force private messaging servers to track “massively forwarded” messages sent to groups or lists keep massive amounts of metadata about all users’ communications, or else to break encryption in order to get access to the payload of an encrypted messageWhen does access to the traceability records occur?How...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItBelow, we will take a deep dive into a series of questions and answers to explain why the current language of two critical issues of the Senate’s bill would undermine human rights:PROBLEM I: A tech mandate to force private messaging servers to track “massively forwarded” messages sent to groups or lists keep massive amounts of metadata about all users’ communications, or else to break encryption in order to get access to the payload of an encrypted messageWhen does access to the traceability records occur?How...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItAn amendment narrowed article 8 “Account Registration” so that it applies only to private messaging accounts "exclusively linked to cell phone numbers" (still potentially tremendously confusing in practice); private messaging services are ordered to check with mobile operators which numbers had their contract terminated in order to suspend the related accounts in the app. This provision now excludes social networks.Another amendment cut back on aAll the other parts of the provisions discussed in this post remained...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItAn amendment narrowed article 8 “Account Registration” so that it applies only to private messaging accounts "exclusively linked to cell phone numbers" (still potentially tremendously confusing in practice); private messaging services are ordered to check with mobile operators which numbers had their contract terminated in order to suspend the related accounts in the app. This provision now excludes social networks.Another amendment cut back on aAll the other parts of the provisions discussed in this post remained...WW…