The United States volunteered to provide freedom to all Internet
The administration of President Bush has assumed a new responsible mission - it decided to ensure freedom on the global Internet. She did not explain what exactly she meant by the concept of “freedom”, but outlined her range of future initiatives. It turned out that the US State Department is going to systematically monitor the work of Internet providers - but not American, but foreign ones.
For these purposes, a special working group has been created at the US Foreign Office - Global Internet Freedom Task Force (GIFT), RIA Novosti reports. In addition to monitoring the activities of foreign providers, the group will develop programs to expand access to the Network, as well as counter attempts to restrict this access. How exactly all this will happen is not specified. But the comment given by the representative of the congress Christopher Smith explains that the essence of the undertaking is to give some kind of warning to the regimes that resort to reprisals against the Internet and Internet users.
Smith also said that in January he intends to submit for approval of the congress the “Act on global online freedom”. This bill, in particular, will prohibit American companies to cooperate with repressive regimes that "use personal information to track down and punish democratic activists." Smith stressed that the document makes it outside the bounds of the law that Internet companies transfer personal user data to foreign governments - except when it comes to a criminal offense committed by an Internet user.
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In addition, as reported by Lenta.Ru with reference to the publication SYS-CON Media, foreign nationals affected by unauthorized identification will be given the right to file claims in US courts.
As it is known, now authoritarian regimes prefer to be purchased by technologies precisely in American firms. It is difficult to imagine that this will soon cease - for example, in countries such as China, Belarus, Cuba, Ethiopia, Iran, Laos, North Korea, Tunisia and Vietnam. However, Smith's bill has already been approved by the relevant congressional committees and is awaiting only approval.
For these purposes, a special working group has been created at the US Foreign Office - Global Internet Freedom Task Force (GIFT), RIA Novosti reports. In addition to monitoring the activities of foreign providers, the group will develop programs to expand access to the Network, as well as counter attempts to restrict this access. How exactly all this will happen is not specified. But the comment given by the representative of the congress Christopher Smith explains that the essence of the undertaking is to give some kind of warning to the regimes that resort to reprisals against the Internet and Internet users.
Smith also said that in January he intends to submit for approval of the congress the “Act on global online freedom”. This bill, in particular, will prohibit American companies to cooperate with repressive regimes that "use personal information to track down and punish democratic activists." Smith stressed that the document makes it outside the bounds of the law that Internet companies transfer personal user data to foreign governments - except when it comes to a criminal offense committed by an Internet user.
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In addition, as reported by Lenta.Ru with reference to the publication SYS-CON Media, foreign nationals affected by unauthorized identification will be given the right to file claims in US courts.
As it is known, now authoritarian regimes prefer to be purchased by technologies precisely in American firms. It is difficult to imagine that this will soon cease - for example, in countries such as China, Belarus, Cuba, Ethiopia, Iran, Laos, North Korea, Tunisia and Vietnam. However, Smith's bill has already been approved by the relevant congressional committees and is awaiting only approval.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/4868/
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