'The Snowden Treaty': Pact to End Mass Spying Would Honor NSA Whistleblower
Common Dreams: 'The Snowden Treaty': Pact to End Mass Spying Would Honor NSA Whistleblower
"Protecting the right to privacy is vital not just in itself but because it is essential requirement for exercise of freedom of opinion and expression, the most fundamental pillars of democracy," the drafters—Snowden, journalists Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald, and Greenwald's partner David Miranda—explain in their proposal, which will be formally introduced at a press conference on Thursday and encourages both individual citizens and global governments to sign up.
The proposal states:
We demand for privacy on the internet.
We demand that the government grant us the right to privacy in our homes.
We demand that the government protect our personal privacy online.
Launched along with the website SnowdenTreaty.org, the pact is officially titled the International Treaty on the Right to Privacy, Protection Against Improper Surveillance and Protection of Whistleblowers.
Among the treaty's early signatories are three well-known activists—scholar and linguist Noam Chomsky, actor Jon Cusack, and director Oliver Stone, whose latest project is a biopic of Snowden.
http://www.snowdentreaty.org/
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