Surveillance was “the elephant in the room”...
Surveillance was “the elephant in the room” during the 2013 Internet Governance Forum in Bali, Indonesia, which concluded Friday, the organization said in a Friday release (http://bit.ly/1g0lqXg). The four-day event brought together government officials from 111 countries for “the largest…
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global multi-stakeholder meeting on Internet governance,” the release said. The U.S. State Department said Monday (http://1.usa.gov/1a08r1N) it was sending three officials to the event: U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy Ambassador Daniel Sepulveda; Coordinator for Cyber Issues Christopher Painter; and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Scott Busby. The State Department called the event in its release “an important venue through which to promote the kind of multi-stakeholder processes that have made the Internet an engine of global economic growth and innovation.” Many of the forum’s 135 workshops and discussions focused on governments’ need to restore “trust” in the Internet. Busby acknowledged at the event widespread concerns about intrusive U.S. government surveillance, saying the U.S. “welcomes a discussion about privacy and security” that includes “the views and practices of everyone around the world.” He insisted the U.S. “does not use intelligence collection for the purpose of repressing the citizens of any country for any reason, including their political, religious, or other beliefs."