Netpolicy/Current Issues

Core Issues and Activities

Security and Surveillance

• Making Internet devices, communications, and services more secure
  • Netpolicy/Cybersecurity_Delphi
  • Backdoors, vulnerabilities
  • Reset the Net campaign
  • CISPA (proposed Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act)
  • CFAA (Computer Fraud and Abuse Act)

• Protect privacy of Internet users everywhere
  • StopWatching.Us campaign
  • We Need to Know campaign
  • USA Freedom Act
  • ECPA Reform (existing Electronic Communications Privacy Act)

Privacy and Data

• Build products that provide transparency and control
  • Lightbeam
  • Tracking protection
  • Third-party cookies

• Apply pressure to industry to respect user privacy
  • Lead by example with good practices, policies
  • W3C and industry collaborations

• Shape evolving privacy law, norms, and standards
  • Surveillance reform work
  • End patchwork approach to privacy regulation and standards
  • EU Data Directive
  • Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights
  • White House, NTIA Big Data processes

Governance and Gatekeeping

• Support net neutrality in policy and practice
  • Netpolicy/Net_neutrality
  • Work to unite technology and public interest around normative baseline, values
  • Work to improve understanding of evolving technical networking issues

• Promote bottom-up, inclusive Internet governance
  • Internet Governance, WCIT, IGF
  • Internet Civil Rights Bill ("Marco Civil") (Brazil)

• Defend innovation and interoperability
  • Patent Reform (Innovation Act)
  • Other intellectual property
  • Intermediary liability

Digital Inclusion and Access

• Improve privacy, other issues literacy through trainings
• Build tools and content to improve literacy
• Internet Savvy for Policy Makers