I like the proposal Jonathan Zittrain makes in 'the future of the internet' the idea to create a 'Creative Commons' type of license concerning privacy sensitive data He mentions the work of Pamela Samuelson who favors protectable rights of persons to control their personal data. http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~pam/ I have never read her weork, looks interesting though Offcourse there's the work of the eff on privacy rights in the us, : http://www.eff.org/issues/privacy and bits of freedom, who do a good job in the netherlands https://www.bof.nl/home/english-bits-of-freedom/ and quadrature du net working in france: http://www.laquadrature.net/ You have met Jeremie Zimmerman during the Imaginary property event we co-organised in Nova, haven't you? thre's plenty links to interesting (frenchy) writings on the site. Laura Stein mkes a point in this article: “Speech Without Rights: The Status of Public Space on the Internet” : the public functions of media spaces in the US are unprotected hence 'free' speech online is non existing for US law. she gives many examples of courtcases that overrule the public interest of the web in favor of proprietors interests. (networks, isp's ..) A down to earth contextualisation of the '96 utopian martian independance perry barlow declaration that states that 'legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us.'https://projects.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html ... duuuh Stein is more from a grassroots 'we the media' bacjgournd http://rtf.utexas.edu/faculty/lstein.html http://www.allacademic.com//meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/2/2/8/7/1/pages228714/p228714-28.php " Public forum law determines the status of public space in U.S. media, and absent constitutional protection of such spaces, we may find that free speech online is something more ephemeral--speech without rights. " How to avoid negativism, and keep the 'privacy' angle inspirational ? I guess it's up to good coffee reading .. http://www.psychicsahar.com/artman/publish/article_202.shtml "Enjoy your coffee while relaxing, and ask yourself: "What do I need to know about my present situation?" ---------------- look back at the evolution of the free software movement (if such term makes sense), at least the part in which at my level I have been involved, and try to get to terms with /understand/ re-imagine/ it. At many levels, I think it touches the issue of open web (if I get what this means). ---------------- 1. 1er choix: Jeremie Zimmerman http://giss.tv/dmmdb/fcforum (search) http://video.constantvzw.org/imaginary_property/Jeremie_Zimmermann.ogg http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/Memoire_politique http://giss.tv/dmmdb//incdl.php?ID=992&file=http%3A%2F%2Fgiss.tv%2Fdmmdb%2F%2Fcontents%2Ffcforum9-5-dl.ogg 2. Benjamin Henrion FFII (Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure) http://www.ffii.org/ 3. EFF Brussels http://www.eff.org/ Pour Samedies: 1. Ameliai Andersdotter http://giss.tv/dmmdb//incdl.php?ID=996&file=http%3A%2F%2Fgiss.tv%2Fdmmdb%2F%2Fcontents%2Ffcforum7-3-dl.ogg (Amelia answering questions about Pirate Party) Amelia Andersdotter of Pirate Party Sweden, who will be our guest on Acta for Samedies in the morning, 3. Laurence Vandewalle (evt avec Denis): perspective à la fois en Belgique FR + Europe cfr Digitales 2006/7 2. Michel passer en revue infos liés à ACTA & co sur E-traces -> voir comment identifier des sources d'informations formuler une série de questions importantes pour les gens qui s'intéressent aux licenses libres/culture en réseau, qui utilisent l'infrastructure digitale pour créer, réfléchir... -> voir les point problématiques utiliser les Samedies pour confronter ces points-là au discours d'Amelia + voir les stratégies -> rapporter mardi + lister les propositions Autres par video: 1. James Love (talk sur ACTA) http://giss.tv/dmmdb//incdl.php?ID=991&file=http%3A%2F%2Fgiss.tv%2Fdmmdb%2F%2Fcontents%2Ffcforum9-4-dl.ogg Autres idées: - Je viens de découvrir (par fred peters que j'ai vu à sa conférence gnome3) qu'il existe une association en belgique NURPA (Net Users' Rights Protection Association), http://nurpa.be/ aux dernières nouvelles, étudiant à l'ulb il est normalement entre paris et bxl - aucune idée s'il serait dispo :-) psycojoker@gmail.com dont fait partie d'ailleurs le laurent Peuch cité dans un autre courrier (qui avait été interviewé par sophie-radio-panik et qui se démenait beaucoup pour la quadrature du net) --> Denis les a vus, assez jeunes - http://www.vub.ac.be/LSTS/members/depreeuw/ Currently she focuses on the copyright aspects of electronic publishing in the Flemish newspaper sector in the framework of a four-year interdisciplinary research project FLEET. - by Amelia: maybe you could invite eva lichtenberger or eva-britt svensson from the parliament, although i think that they are probably not in bxl over the weekends. ralf bendrath from jan philip albrechts office (@bendrath on twitter) is an experienced digital activist from germany who lives in brussels. also wouter van holst from bits of freedom, netherlands is good. joe mcnamee from EDRi also, but he is often busy and stressed out."