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[[GNIBrief | Draft of GNI brief]]


=Issue areas=


* Freedom of expression
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* Privacy


=Reading List=
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* [http://drop.io/cyberlaw_winter10/asset/maclay-access-controlled-pdf Background on the GNI and its basic problems: Maclay Chapter on GNI]
* [http://www.eff.org/files/filenode/gni/signon_letter.txt EFF's critiques of GNI in their signon letter]


*Introductory case study: Jailing of journalist in China
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** [http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/110/lantos110607.htm Congressional statement about Yahoo!'s provision of false information to Congress]
*** At this time, Yahoo! was asked to endorse the Global Online Freedom Act (GOFA)
**** [http://thomas.loc.gov/home/gpoxmlc110/h275_ih.xml#toc-H78B59BDBFFCC44A99957C400969EB752 Text of the GOFA]
**** [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2008/05/20/testimony-on-internet-filtering-and-surveillance/ John Palfrey/The Berkman Center have concluded that GOFA is too blunt]
**** [http://www.cdt.org/international/censorship/20080505gofa.pdf The Center for Democracy & Technology supports the goals of GOFA, but disagrees with some of the implementation]
**** [http://www.reports-and-materials.org/Ruggie-report-7-Apr-2008.pdf John Ruggie offers suggestions for how transnational businesses can foster human rights]
**[http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2008/10/skype-messes-up.html Another pre-GNI online privacy controversy]
* Pre-GNI Amnestry International Briefing on Freedom of Expression on the Internet [http://irrepressible.info/static/pdf/Briefing%20-%20The%20internet%20and%20freedom%20of%20expression.pdf]
** discusses previous attempts at developing frameworks for internet governance, including:
***United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (met in 2003, 2005) [http://www.itu.int/wsis/index.html]
***Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN, formerly responsible for much internet rule-setting, described as a default regulator, in absence of other agreements) [http://www.icann.org/]
***Internet Governance Forum (started meeting annually in 2006) [http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/]
**issue: Did these initiatives make any impact? If not, was it from a lack of industry involvement? What makes the GNI different?
* [http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2009/06/is-the-global-network-initiative-making-a-difference.html Update on GNI's impact]


=Potential difficult issues=
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* Protections for whistleblowers:  
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** What are the applicable laws?
 
** at companies implementing the GNI guidelines?
** at other companies/organizations?
 
** can technology help with anonymous/safer whistleblowing?
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* Actual ability for organizations adopting the GNI to actually affect governmental regulation as required by the guidelines?
 
** Are governmental regulations even the important things for adopting companies to worry about?
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** How can companies tell if/which expression/privacy regulations apply to the internet, when many are possible out of date?
 
** Government regulation in general lags behind the pace of technological change
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* Lack of participation by companies in certain industries (ie. telecommunication companies)
 
* Useful metrics for measuring compliance with GNI or similar initiatives
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* Procedural issues with institution building
 
** Disputes over board members and term limits
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* Third-party liability in countries like China
 
** Google is held liable for content posted by its users in many countries that restrict freedom of expression on the internet
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*** this forces Google, for example, to compromise its users freedoms
* Getting non-United States companies/groups to join

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