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From: Simon Davies <simon@privacy.org>
Date: Wed, May 7, 2014 at 7:15 AM
Subject: [13 Principles] The Snowden report: 14 countries sorted - at least 25 to go. We stil need help!
To: principles@eff.org


Hi everyone,

I'm delighted to say that we now have authors for brief reports on Brazil,
Canada, France, Ireland, the EU, Netherlands, Turkey, United States,
Pakistan, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Denmark and Spain. We still have a long
way to go before this is a global report though. Any volunteers for the
man countries that remain?

We're only looking for 300-500 words. Guidelines are below if anyone else
is interested in taking this on.


The Snowden disclosures - the global impact one year on

General information and guidelines for reports

OVERVIEW

June 5th is the first anniversary of the beginning of the Edward Snowden
disclosures. This date will be an opportunity to review precisely what
impact the subsequent exposure has triggered and what lessons we can learn
as we move forward on the reform agenda.

To coincide with this anniversary, the Privacy Surgeon is planning to
publish a major feature on the consequences and impact of the key
developments of the past year. One primary aim is to provide media,
campaigners, opinion leaders and the public with a reliable source that
presents the facts in a comparative format. For civil society and for
those people wanting to pursue an agenda of reform, such a resource will
be extremely valuable.

We anticipate that the work will be published in association with key
organisations, primarily in the civil society sector.

The project will comprise at least two or three dozen national, sectoral
and regional reports together with a summary and analysis. Each report
will be no more than 300 - 500 words and will describe concrete,
measurable outcomes rather than presenting opinion. In this sense it is
more valuable to report outcomes than mere activity.

This will mean not just mentioning, for example, that an inquiry was
conducted or a parliamentary debate held, but whether something tangible
has been implemented as a result. Most commentators have hardly a clue
what's transpired in most of the world's countries in the past year. We
hear much opinion, but relatively little facts or evidence.

The aim is to get this report out on mass distribution to media a week in
advance.

Importantly, it doesn't matter if nothing concrete has emerged within a
particular sector or country, It's important to communicate that there has
been no activity. As a spoiler, it appears that most countries have seen
no tangible activity or reform.

WHAT DO WE WANT TO ACHIEVE?

Three outcomes:

1. Outside of the US, have there been any concrete reforms undertaken by
governments or other organisations?

2. In terms of the activity over the past year, what patterns and common
themes, if any, can we deduce?

3. From this evidence, what lessons can we learn about how to take the
reform agenda forward over the coming years?

PROJECT COMPONENTS

The project will comprise the following:

- reports for the majority of EU countries.
- reports on all 5-eyes countries
- reports from selected African, South American and Asian nations
- a global report on IGO actions (e.g. the UN surveillance resolution)
- a global report on NGO actions
- a global report on industry actions (adoption of encryption etc)
- a specific report on reforms (if any) within the security sector
- summary and analysis

COMPONENTS OF COUNTRY REPORTS

Each report should aim to provide the following elements, ideally in less
than 500 words (though if more content is required this will be OK). It's
not essential to go into detail on, say, a legal challenge or legislative
reform. An introductory sentence or two and a link to the relevant
background resource is sufficient.

Please do try to include the following:

- An introductory paragraph describing the overall impact of the revelations.

- A paragraph that describes the scale and nature of media reporting (was
the reporting investigative, did it address local/national involvement in
surveillance or was it primarily focused on the US and the NSA as a single
entity).

- Was there any consequent public action in the manner of demonstrations
or large-scale campaigns that had a measurable impact?

 - What was the action taken, if any, by parliament? Were any formal
inquiries or investigations initiated? Any debates, votes or resolutions?
Did anything emerge from this activity in terms of legislative or other
reforms?

- What cases, if any, have been brought before courts, police or judicial
authorities? Have these resulted in any tangible outcome?

 - Is there any hard evidence or concrete indication that there will be a
future development that will bring reform or transparency to the security
arena?

- To your knowledge, have any national organisations, trades unions,
professional associations or industry groups taken concrete actions of any
kind in response to the disclosures?

Please do feel free to add any other material that you think is relevant,
as long as it focuses on measurable outcomes and tangible reforms (if such
exists).

FORMAT OF REPORTS

For consistency, the style of reports should be objective and reportive.
Please do keep in mind that we're aiming here for a wide audience that may
not be literate in technology or law, so please do explain various terms
and acronyms that you might use.

In terms of format, I'd be very grateful if you could use a text file like
.rtf or something simple like that, though Word would still be OK. As I'll
have to format this work for the website it's probably best to use
end-notes like http://www.saidsimple.com/content/How-to-Write-End-Notes
and in this case that would mean indicating what you want to reference in
numbered brackets like (3) and then putting the reference and url at the
end of the text, rather than using conventional footnotes.

The default language for the project is English, but it would be extremely
beneficial if you could also supply text in the native language. This will
help ensure that the project dissemination is truly global and not just
confined to the Anglo-American press.

Could you also include a biography of no more than fifty words that we can
include in the text itself, and - if you want - a link to your website or
other source about you.

DEADLINES

May 24 Submission of reports

May 30th Circulation of edited report to media

June 5th Publication


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