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=Public policy and advocacy at Mozilla= | |||
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* Internet | ==Issues and Activities== | ||
* | The Internet policy issues we engage with fall into two broad pillars of activity: trust and openness. | ||
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* | ===Trust + integrity=== | ||
* | Our work on trust and integrity policy begins with the established external contexts of surveillance reform and privacy, working to develop the values of control, transparency, and privacy. Active issues in this pillar of our work include: | ||
* | * Surveillance reform - touching on a multifaceted set of geographic and legal contexts, and a range of active, unresolved issues | ||
* | * Security public policy - finding opportunities for change advocacy that go above and beyond information sharing and risk management, including fighting for the continued freedom of users to communicate securely, without backdoors | ||
* | * Privacy - continuing leadership on raising public awareness of privacy to build a better, more open Internet future | ||
* | * Data collection and use - creating counter-incentives for excessive collection, and/or incentives for better data stewardship and management, including: | ||
** Awareness, education and literacy, e.g. Lightbeam, Privacy Coach | |||
** Direct empowerment, e.g. DNT, tracking protection (Polaris) | |||
** Policy, e.g. standardizing/harmonizing privacy protections | |||
** Experiment w/ privacy-friendly advertising, data practices, e.g. Tiles, UP | |||
* Other issues as they develop globally, e.g. “Right to Forget” | |||
===Openness + innovation=== | |||
Our work on openness and innovation includes, but goes beyond, net neutrality and intellectual property, centering around the values of competition, interoperability, and innovation. Active issues in this pillar include: | |||
* Net neutrality - protecting the Internet’s status quo of a level playing field to promote innovation, competition, and user choice | |||
* Copyright - engaging in U.S. and E.U. conversations with the objective of strengthening fair use and interoperability to promote technology innovation | |||
* Patent - process reforms to discourage excessive and anti-innovation litigation, paired with targeted advocacy efforts around vague, broad software patents | |||
* Interoperability - cross-cutting IP and other issues, siloing of technologies creates gatekeepers and potential for multidisciplinary work on interoperability | |||
* Internet governance - global Internet governance forums and structures are ever shifting, creating potential for change, despite glacial pace of processes | |||
* Access - new Internet users are born every day, some through low-cost Firefox OS smartphones; policy has some opportunities to accelerate adoption more | |||
* Telecom - spectrum, competition, IP transition, and over-the-top services create opportunities for effective advocacy + leadership for the right independent voice | |||
==Meetings and Mailing Lists== | ==Meetings and Mailing Lists== | ||
===Mailing List=== | ===Mailing List=== | ||
https://discourse.mozilla-advocacy.org/ | |||
Open forum for Mozilla public policy and Advocacy Community engagement, including open discussion of policy issues along with project and job opportunities and other engagements. | |||
We have a [https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/netpolicy mailing list], open to any Mozillian or invited guest. Archives are viewable by list members. | We also have a [https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/netpolicy mailing list], open to any Mozillian or invited guest. Archives are viewable by list members. Historically, this mailing list was the primary place for discussion. Recently, we have been trying to encourage greater use of Discourse as a substitute, | ||
== | ==New Ideas== | ||
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If you have policy issues or topics in this area that you think Mozilla should consider intervening on or which need support, please [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/form.ipp submit them for consideration]. Before doing so, you might want to read the "Purpose" section to make sure it falls within our remit. | If you have policy issues or topics in this area that you think Mozilla should consider intervening on or which need support, please [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/form.ipp submit them for consideration]. Before doing so, you might want to read the "Purpose" section to make sure it falls within our remit. | ||
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==Past Issues and Activities== | ==Past Issues and Activities== | ||
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===Marco Civil=== | ===Marco Civil=== | ||