Google/France Ruling -v- Twitter Politwoops
This particular case ties in with the revocation of Netherlands-based Open State Foundation (OSF) access to Twitter’s API in August 2015.
In 2010, OSF created Politwoops, a tool to publish tweets deleted by politicians. As the tool gained traction spreading into over 30 countries, Twitter was under pressure from politicians to explain why their right of expression was being tampered with, seeing that deleting a tweet is a form of expressing what you want (or don’t want, as it were) to be known of you.
Twitter explanation went something like: “No one user is more deserving of that ability [to delete a tweet] than another. Indeed, deleting a tweet is an expression of one’s voice.”
OSF is arguing that Twitter’s reasoning and justification conflates political figures transparency with their privacy. The people they represent need to know what their officials think about, not just for one moment but also across time.
In fact, judicial rulings have over time recognized this need and particularly hold that public officials do not receive the same treatment for privacy as man-on the street (or Twitter streets).
The question then is, between the citizen’s right to information and public officials’s right to privacy, what comes first.
The French/Google case might be a little different in that it combines both private and public citizens compared to Twitter’s private versus public. However, this points to a growing discomfort between privacy, freedom of expression and access to information.
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1. Re: Here?s the Real Way to Get Internet to the Next 4 Billion
People (Barrack Otieno)
2. Re: Here?s the Real Way to Get Internet to the Next 4 Billion
People (Ali Hussein)
3. Fwd: [Internet Policy] France tells Google to remove search
results globally, or face big fines (Barrack Otieno)
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From: Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com>
To: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Cc: Mwendwa Kivuva <Kivuva@transworldafrica.com>, Watila Alex <awatila@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 11:54:12 +0300
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Here’s the Real Way to Get Internet to the Next 4 Billion People
Indeed Kivuva,
This practical example can feature on the East African Internet
Governance Forum, now that it is happening in Uganda this week and
being co-hosted by the Ministry of ICT.
Regards
On 9/21/15, Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
> On 21 September 2015 at 11:09, Brian Munyao Longwe via kictanet <
> kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>> We established a social enterprise that is using internet technologies to
>> improve livelihoods for communities in this post-conflict regions. This
>> is
>> mainly through making high speed broadband available to rural communities
>> at low cost. So far we have been able to establish points-of-presence in
>> the towns of Gulu, Lira, Soroti and Mbale - NGOs, corporates and
>> individuals alike have been flocking to take up the broadband services
>> after years of poor quality and expensive services from the mobile
>> operators who sell mainly data bundles that have poor performance. We
>> ride
>> on Uganda's national optical fiber network (owned by the ministry of
>> ICT's
>> National IT Authority - NITA-U). and from Kampala interconnect with a
>> variety of bulk providers (Seacom, Liquid Telecom, Simbanet, BCS) who are
>> connected to submarine networks via Mombasa. Our service approach has
>> greatly challenged the internet services paradigm and scored greatly with
>> our subscribers, many of whom enjoy better services in these rural towns
>> than their colleagues/counterparts in the capital Kampala.
>>
>
> Thank you very much Brian for the great work. This is quite interesting.
> There is an IGF 2015 track called "Policy Options for Connecting the Next
> Billion". I am not sure if you have heard about it.
>
> The short writeup of the same reads like this: "Technological advancement
> in connectivity expanded broadband access and mobile penetration in recent
> years. Three billion people were connected to the Internet by the end of
> 2014. In spite of the progress achieved, more effort is necessary in order
> to connect the next billion and to address the digital divide. The
> identification of strategies to improve connectivity is timely due to the
> ongoing process of reviewing the outcomes of the World Summit of the
> Information Society (WSIS+10) and the discussion of the post-2015
> Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Collaboration between governmental
> and non-governmental actors is key to meet this challenge and the
> mutistakeholder nature of the IGF makes it a privileged space for
> discussion. "
>
> What next: Your implementation is great and can form a great policy option
> for the IGF. We hope you are willing to contribute on the same. Local or
> regional IGF initiatives are encouraged to contribute on how "we can
> connect the next billion to the Internet". Here is the form created by the
> IGF secretariat to collect feedback. We can then have it presented at the
> global IGF in Brazil later in November.
> http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/policy-options-for-connection-the-next-billion/contributions
>
> http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/policy-options-for-connection-the-next-billion/contributions
>
> Here is the landing page:
> http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/policy-options-for-connection-the-next-billion
>
> Sincerely,
> ______________________
> Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya
>
> "There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on
> higher ground in that lifetime." - Maxwell Anderson
>
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From: Ali Hussein <ali@hussein.me.ke>
To: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Cc: Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com>, Watila Alex <awatila@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 17:22:33 +0300
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Here’s the Real Way to Get Internet to the Next 4 Billion PeopleBrianGreat stuff! Lots of initiatives out there. Great to see that some are actually working!Ali HusseinPrincipalHussein & Associates+254 0713 601113 / 0770906375Twitter: @AliHKassim
Skype: abu-jomo
LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim
Blog: www.alyhussein.com"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-GyörgyiSent from my iPadIndeed Kivuva,
This practical example can feature on the East African Internet
Governance Forum, now that it is happening in Uganda this week and
being co-hosted by the Ministry of ICT.
Regards
On 9/21/15, Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:On 21 September 2015 at 11:09, Brian Munyao Longwe via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:We established a social enterprise that is using internet technologies toimprove livelihoods for communities in this post-conflict regions. Thisismainly through making high speed broadband available to rural communitiesat low cost. So far we have been able to establish points-of-presence inthe towns of Gulu, Lira, Soroti and Mbale - NGOs, corporates andindividuals alike have been flocking to take up the broadband servicesafter years of poor quality and expensive services from the mobileoperators who sell mainly data bundles that have poor performance. Werideon Uganda's national optical fiber network (owned by the ministry ofICT'sNational IT Authority - NITA-U). and from Kampala interconnect with avariety of bulk providers (Seacom, Liquid Telecom, Simbanet, BCS) who areconnected to submarine networks via Mombasa. Our service approach hasgreatly challenged the internet services paradigm and scored greatly withour subscribers, many of whom enjoy better services in these rural townsthan their colleagues/counterparts in the capital Kampala.Thank you very much Brian for the great work. This is quite interesting.There is an IGF 2015 track called "Policy Options for Connecting the NextBillion". I am not sure if you have heard about it.The short writeup of the same reads like this: "Technological advancementin connectivity expanded broadband access and mobile penetration in recentyears. Three billion people were connected to the Internet by the end of2014. In spite of the progress achieved, more effort is necessary in orderto connect the next billion and to address the digital divide. Theidentification of strategies to improve connectivity is timely due to theongoing process of reviewing the outcomes of the World Summit of theInformation Society (WSIS+10) and the discussion of the post-2015Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Collaboration between governmentaland non-governmental actors is key to meet this challenge and themutistakeholder nature of the IGF makes it a privileged space fordiscussion. "What next: Your implementation is great and can form a great policy optionfor the IGF. We hope you are willing to contribute on the same. Local orregional IGF initiatives are encouraged to contribute on how "we canconnect the next billion to the Internet". Here is the form created by theIGF secretariat to collect feedback. We can then have it presented at theglobal IGF in Brazil later in November.http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/policy-options-for-connection-the-next-billion/contributionshttp://www.intgovforum.org/cms/policy-options-for-connection-the-next-billion/contributionsHere is the landing page:http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/policy-options-for-connection-the-next-billionSincerely,______________________Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya"There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk onhigher ground in that lifetime." - Maxwell Anderson
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From: Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com>
To: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Cc: ISOC Kenya Chapter <isoc@lists.my.co.ke>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 04:29:39 +0300
Subject: [kictanet] Fwd: [Internet Policy] France tells Google to remove search results globally, or face big fines
Listers,
FYI
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From: Joly MacFie <joly@punkcast.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 13:55:51 -0400
Subject: [Internet Policy] France tells Google to remove search
results globally, or face big fines
To: "internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org" <InternetPolicy@elists.isoc.org>
(via Lauren Weinstein)
Does increasing geofencing threaten the integrity of the Internet?
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/09/france-confirms-that-google-must-remove-search-results-globally-or-face-big-fines/
Google's informal appeal against a French order to apply the
so-called "right to be forgotten" to all of its global Internet
services and domains, not just those in Europe, has been
rejected. The president of the Commission Nationale de
l'Informatique et des Libert?s (CNIL), France's data protection
authority, gave a number of reasons for the rejection, including
the fact that European orders to de-list information from search
results could be easily circumvented if links were still
available on Google's other domains.
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