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[ISOC-CH Ann] Richard Hill elected to Chapters Advisory Council Steering Committee
by Roxana Radu ISOC-CH 29 Oct '15

29 Oct '15

Dear members, ISOC has created a new group called the Chapters Advisory Council (AC), whose purpose is to channel and facilitate advice and recommendations to and from the President and Board of Trustees of the Internet Society in a bottom up manner, on any matters of concern or interest to the Chapters AC and ISOC Chapters. Each chapter may appoint one delegate to the AC, and 66 of the 110 Chapters did so. The AC has a Steering Committee of 9 members, which elects a Chair, up to 3 vice-Chairs, and a Secretary. The ISOC-CH delegate to the AC is Richard Hill, Vice-Chair External, and he has been elected to the AC Steering Committee (51 of the 66 chapter delegates voted in the election for the Steering Committee members). The Steering Committee has held its first meeting to elect its officers and organize its work. Avri Doria has been elected Chair; Richard Hill, Douglas Onyango and Rudi Vansnick are the vice-Chairs; and Babu Ram Aryal is the Secretary. The Chair will soon be reaching out to the chapters to ask for inputs. I’m sure that we all look forward to this new group which can help further to strengthen the relations between the chapters and the central ISOC structures and staff. For more details on the AC, see: http://www.internetsociety.org/who-we-are/chapter-advisory-council/chapter-… -- Roxana Radu ISOC-CH Vice Chair, Internal -------ISOC-CH------ Website: http://www.isoc.ch/ Follow ISOC-CH on Twitter: ISOCSwitzerland <https://twitter.com/ISOCSwitzerland> Facebook group page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/isocch/ More about the Internet Society: http://www.internetsociety.org/

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[ISOC-CH Ann] Referendum against the LRens/NDG
by Richard Hill 15 Oct '15

15 Oct '15

Dear Members of ISOC-CH, As you may have heard in the news, the Swiss Parliament has recently passed a new law regarding the "information services", meaning the espionage and counter-espionage services. This new law significantly extends the powers of those services and also enables them to carry out mass surveillance in certain situations. A broad coalition, including actors on the left and on the right of the political spectrum, has been formed to collect signatures to force a referendum on this law. As you know, ISOC-CH is opposed to mass surveillance, so we have joined the coalition in question. You will find attached the signature forms for the referendum. In a nutshell, the arguments against the new law include the following: * It allows disproportionate and unnecessary invasions of privacy. * It institutes a mass surveillance regime. * It allows measures that are dangerous and can be counter-productive, such as installation of Trojans developed outside of Switzerland. * It is not needed: existing criminal laws and the existing powers of the cantonal police forces are sufficient to attain the stated goals of the law: combating terrorism, organized crime, and protecting the security of Switzerland and its citizens. This is just a very high level summary of the arguments against the law. Further details can be found at: https://www.lrens.ch/ https://www.nachrichtendienstgesetz.ch/ http://etat-fouineur.ch/lrens/ http://schnueffelstaat.ch/ndg/ https://www.partipirate.ch/2015/09/24/non-a-la-lrens-mobilisons-nous-pour-le -referendum/ http://www.bluewin.ch/fr/infos/suisse/2015/9/28/referendum-lance-par-une--al liance-contre-l-etat-f.html The text of the law itself is at: https://www.admin.ch/opc/fr/federal-gazette/2015/6597.pdf Best, Richard

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