newsitems UN Rapporteur on Privacy, Cannataci to EF on Issues for 2016 UN General Assembly+Heads of State/Gov.
UN Rapporteur on Privacy, Cannataci to EF on Issues for 2016 UN General Assembly+Heads of State/Gov.
*Strasbourg/CoE/Angelo Marcopolo/- 3 Years After Snowden's revelations on Mass Surveillance at the Internet, SmartPhones, etc, UNO's new Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy, Professor Joe Cannataci, speaking to "Eurofora", highlighted the main Issues that he intends to raise at New York's Autumn 2016 General Assembly's session of the International Organisation, where use to participate most Heads of State/Government from all over the World :
"Eurofora" asked Cannataci about "the main Substance of this Years' Issues that (his) forthcoming Report will raise at the Autumn 2016 UN General Assembly", (i.e. shortly before the December 2016 IGF in Mexico).
-"My (2016) Report will mostly deal with 2 main Points :", he Started to Reply from the outset.
- "The First will deal with a Set of 5 Priorities of joint Actions to identify".
- These "Include Security and Surveillance, of course. But it also includes Medical Data". Even "Big Data, Open Data", and "Personal Data by Cooperations, as well as "the subject of Privacy and a Better Understanding of it".
- This Last Issue is included"Specifically Because, although More than 163 Countries have Signed up to the Right of Privacy, we doN't have a Definition of that Right !", he criticized.
- "It's a Huge Challenge... Since there is No Definition", then, "we have a Situation where <<Privacy>> is Meaning Different things, to Different People, and, yet, we have 1 Internet !"...
=> Therefore, "we have a Number of Situations, where, clearly, you can come in front of Poor Values about Privacy, with Some Different Understandings about what it means", he denounced.
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+ "The Second Point of the (2016 UNO) Report has to do with Surveillance, and some (Recent) Developments which have taken place with Surveillance, Encryption, and so on", he added.
- "And I leave you to Think about what Direction the Report will take when it comes f.ex. to SmartPhones...", he joked, with a keen sense of Black Humour on such a notoriously Thorny Issue, particularly after so Many recent Scandals revealed, at a quite Fast pace, one after another.
In this regard, UNO's Rapporteur told "Eurofora" that he was Aware, f.ex., from World Famous Whistle-Blower Eduard Snowden's current effort, in Partnership with an MIT Student Expert, to prepare a Phone that might Not be Spied, resilient to attempts for Geo-Localisation and other Privacy-affecting threats.
However, "even if you succeed to inspire some Good Legal Rules for protecting Privacy, nevertheless, it will still remain an Open Question on How to Apply that in Real Practice", particularly since it seems to be a Quasi-Monopoly" on SmartPhones globally, "Eurofora" reacted.
But, "Technically speaking, it looks very Difficult", Perhaps, "there might be some Suggestions", on how to overcome that Problem in real Practice ?, we asked.
- "That's Difficult, but Not Impossible". Already, "there are Some SmartPhones which are More Secure than Others", UNO's New Rapporteur on Privacy pointed out, in a quite Optimist Reply to "Eurofora"s query.
-"Switch this Off, and I'll Show you !", he kindly offered us...
(NDLR : => The Rest of this Story is - Exceptionaly - Stricty Confidential. Or, to put it otherwise : It belongs to a "Private/Personal Data" Issue. Sorry !)...
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+ Concerning General Principles at stake here, UNO's Experienced Rapporteur told "Eurofora" that he finds much Better to speak about "Proportionality, No Balance", between various Values.s
- Because "Balance is when one is against another", so that "one takes (something) from the other". "While", on the Contrary, "Here, you have a number of things, which Need to Live Together", as he stressed.
- And these are "more than two : Security, Privacy, Freedom of Expression", etc., he pointed out, in reaction to an "Eurofora" query.
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- "These are Principles that do Not Need to be <<ReConciled>> (as some use to claim), but Can Live Hapily Together !", he underlined.
This is an Important Point, because "some Governments, instead of SafeGuarding both Security and Privacy, on the Contrary, they use New Laws to Legitimize Mechanisms to Intrude in People's Lives", as he Denounced, strongly Criticizing "some Measures used to Gather Informations at the Internet, which are Completely DisProportionate".
Professor Cannataci, who was chosen as UNO's new Rapporteur just last Year (2015), works in 3 Universities from Europe up to Australia, (including at the Netherlands, Perth, and Malta : the Next EU Chair from Jan. 2017), is a UK Chartered Information Technology Professional & Fellow of the British Computer Society, as well as an “Officier de l’ordre des palmes Académiques” in France, who has written a lot of relevant Books and sits at the Editorial Board of 6 peer-reviewed Journals, and has reportedly received more than "30 Millions" of Grants for Research from the British Academy, CoE, COST, UNESCO and the Commission of the EU, that his Country of origin will Chair Next Year (2017).
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+ China's Hu on UNESCO's input, before the forthcoming IGF of December 2016.
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Completing the point of view of International Organisations, just a few Months before the Global "Internet Governance Forum" in Mexico, on December 2016, UNESCO's Senior Expert on Freedom of Expression and Media Development, Communication and Information, Ms. Xianhong Hu from China, who deals with "Online" and Offline Media, Internet Privacy and Governance, following the World Summit of Information Society (WSIS) and the IGF, underlined from the outset the "4 Principles", set "by 195 Member States", on "Internet's Universality" :
- I.e. on Human Rights' respect, Openess and Accessibility of Internet, as well as on Multiple StakeHolders' involvement before Decision-Making, as she resumed.
Meanwhile, according to other, well informed sources, UNESCO's Head, Irina Bokova, is expected to be a Keynote Speaker at CoE's forthcoming "World Forum of Democracy" (WFD), on November 2016 in Strasbourg, which is due to Focus, this Year, mainly on Topical Education challenges.
+ Currently, while currently preparing Projects into steping the Web Further, UNESCO aims to "Ensure that our Principles will Not be Watered Down", (considering also the Fact that "New Technologies are Often used to Strengthen one party"), and that "New Relations Emerging between various Internet Actors", will Move Forward in a Responsible way, particularly into "Ensuring that Users woN't be Squeezed Out of the Web".
In this regard, Xianhong Hu, in addition to Managing UNESCO's Program on promoting Online Freedom of expression Privacy, as well as Internet Safety, in the dynamic context of Global Web Governance and increasing Challenges, after receiving a Ph.D from Beijing University's School of Journalism and Communication, has also conducted 2 UNESCO Publications on Facilitating "Investigative Journalism".
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It's important to create a synergy between "mutually stimulating" EU Countries' moves in order to overcome an "Unjust" Crisis "imported from USA", stressed new French Minister for Economic Revival, Patrick Devedjian, in Strasbourg, warning also that, while hoping for a vigorous Obama US Plan, nevertheless, "Time" is of essence for Europe...
In fact, it's EU's own interest to act Fast, before June 2009 EU Election, since, with Lisbon Treaty not ratified yet, it cannot face again the risk of a Majority Abstention, as back in 1999 and 2004, nor another "anti-EU" mood among Citizens, as in the 2005 French and Dutch "No", followed by the 2008 Irish "No", without endangering rare Historic opportunities, currently open for the EU, whose future is at stake.
From Social issues up to High-Tech Scientific Research, concrete action for Economic revival started from Strasbourg and its European dimension, for the new super-Minister Patrick Devedjian, who visited a Popular Social Housing and Infrastructure project at nearby Hagenau village, before meeting new leaders of Strasbourg's unified mega-University in a Scientific Labo at the Campus, close to EU Parliament and CoE headquarters.
Devedjian, who met also with all the spectrum of Local Political deciders of Alsace region, close to FrancoGerman borders, wants for deeds to meet the words, in real practice, whenever politicians speak about Strasbourg and Europe's development.
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Devedjan to "EuroFora" : "European coordination can act as a multiplicator by mutual stimulations"
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Devedjian was questioned by "Euro-Fora" on his expectations for reciprocal effects of coordinated European plans :
- "We are living in a (European and Global) system where borders are transparent : When we take measures in France, they produce effects also in Germany, in Belgium, Italy, Spain, or other EU countries, and vice-versa. "So, we can have mutually stimulating effects between national revival Plans, if they are somehow coordinated", ..."They can augment each other's effects, acting as multiplicators and levers". "As a State stimulates Local authorities and Private business, similarly, each EU country's economic revival plan may multiply the effects of other EU countries' actions", he told us.
- "F.ex., when I visited Strasbourg University's Scientific labos, they told me that part of the renovation, funded by France, is realized by German companies located only a few Kms away from the border. Thus, the French revival plan benefits also the German economy. And vice-versa : when Germany takes certain measures, they can have beneficial effects also for French companies"
In an era of Globalisation, "nobody can close and isolate himself inside a Fish-Bowl !", he concluded.
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Economy's revival starts from Strasbourg and Europe, for new French Minister Devedjian
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This could be one of the reasons for which the new French Minister for Economic Stimulus chose to make his 1st visit to Strasbourg, the headquarters of European and Paneuropean Institutions, in the Franco-German river borders at the heart of Europe.
- "It was President Sarkozy's idea", he revealed, adding also fresh "support to Strasbourg's European vocation, not only with words, but also with deeds" :F.ex., the completion of a High-Speed Train network, due to stimulate fast links with Germany, Austria, Italy, Hungary and other central EU Countries.
- "This Crisis is Unjust for Europe, because it wasn't its fault". The greatest part of the "Crisis was imported from the USA, where problems are deeper than here'', in the EU. The Crisis "wasn't due to a bad managment by Europe", who was affected by problems which emerged elsewhere. That's why Europe must be united and active enough to face this challenge. said Devedjian, who has just won +5% in popularity...
- "I hope that there will be an "Obama-effect" also on Economy, and that the Plan of the New American President will be substantial enough to face this crisis, which is worse in the USA than in our area", Europe, he added.
"Economic Revival overcomes political divisions : F.ex. Strasbourg's Socialist Mayor "Ries agreed that State actions funded by Public Debt are justified during such exceptional circumstances", noted the Center-Right republican Minister.
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"Zeitnot" for 2009 EU Elections ?
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"My problem is Time", stressed Devedjian from the outset, at Strasbourg's University. "I have to engage 75% of funds in 2009, out of a total of 29 Billion euros", he explained later. "Monitoring will be of essence", because we must "avoid bureaucracy or delays. No project should get lost or neglected in complex meanders of adminstrative offices' moving sands", he warned.
- "I must create activities in the middle of the Crisis", he added. Questioned by EuroFora whether he aims to start creating some "hopes before the June 2009 EU Elections", Devedjian, a former leader of the Governing Political Party in France: UMP, did not immediately reply, but revealed, later, that he "hoped to start at least some Projects on May 2009, even if the bulk of Revival Plan's effects are "expected from Autumn 2009".
However, with only 30% of EU Citizens currently aiming to cast a vote at the forthcoming EU Elections on June, (See other NewStory), the coordinated moves' results are expected to be crucial for Citizens' participation and votes at the forthcoming June 2009 EU Elections throughout all 27 EU Member Countries...Thus, it's vital for all Europe's own Future that coordinated national Economic revival plans start to have concrete results and create hopes for new dynamics before the June 2009 EU Election...
A real challenge, since careful choices are needed : Our aim is to fund projects which "create activities", even "in the middle of the crisis", and have a "lever effect, attracting other investments", Devedjian said. Because the "Stimulus' Plan has 2 aims : A Tactical one : to create New Activities. And a Strategic one : Choose what can become efficient and useful also in the Long-term".
- "Are you ready ?", he asked Strasbourg University's new President, professor Alain Beretz, with some 700 million euros in his pockets for Education-Research in France. - "We are !", he replied.
- "The Minister's initiative can accelerate funds, and Time is important for us. This concerns the entire renovation of all our buildings", said to "EuroFora" President, Beretz. "I showed some Scientific Research Labos to Mr. Devedjian. But, If we had more time, I could show him also some Education Amphis, whose condition needs to meet Strasbourg's new Mega-University's ambition" to reach the 10 best in the World, as Prime Minister Fillon earlier anounced here.
(Devedjian kicks off his Economic Revival tour from Strasbourg University, meeting with its new chairman Beretz, at Scientific Institute Le Bel)
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Regional Prefectures should gather and select projects to be presented for decision before the end of January 2009.
A well-known close friend of President Sarkozy, who succeeded as EU Chairman to launch, in agreement with German chancelor Merkel and even British prime minister Brown, vigorous EU actions against the Financial/Economic Crisis, (starting from the 1st Historic Summit of EuroZone's Heads of State/Government, October 12 at Elysee Palace, followed by Washington G20 Global Summit), Devedjan will have a key role in the realisation of National and EU plans recently agreed in Brussels.
President Sarkozy is expected to arrive himself in Strasbourg, on the occasion of the official inauguration of its brand New Mega-Hospital, on the 9th of January 2009, at the eve of EU Parliament's session here, Elysee confirmed shortly after Devedjian's visit.
EU is due to review its economic revival plans at March 2009 EU Council in Prague, before the April 2 London Global Summit.
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Multi-facet concrete activities at focus : Stimulus Minister Devedjian at the Political, Social and High-Tech fronts in Strasbourg...