Re: Marketing Meeting Minutes

[Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>]

Hi,


On 11/30/2012 12:20 PM, Allan Day wrote:
> > - Tentative agreement for Karen to reach out to the Tor Project
> > (https://www.torproject.org) and others for a campaign related to
> > Privacy and Security.
>
> I've had a bit of a think about Tor integration from a design point of
> view, and have filed a bug [1] against Settings. It could make sense,
> but it will need more research before we can make a decision.

I assume everyone has heard about this by now? 
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/tor-operator-charged-for-child-porn-transmitted-over-his-servers/

Tor will be a big battleground over the next year - with all sorts of 
repercussions for Net Neutrality, privacy on the net and the ability to 
avoid tracking, versus law enforcement and facilitation of illegal activity.

I would be very happy to see GNOME take a strong stance in defence of 
personal liberty and freedom from tracking - I think there's a huge 
opportunity for us to team up with groups like Mozilla and EFF, who are 
thinking a lot about the issue of tracking on the web, and make a group 
effort to defend projects like Tor against persecution by law 
enforcement, with the end result of a practical erosion of our freedoms.

The frame is being set - if you're for Tor you're for child pornography. 
We cannot allow the message to be set in this way, we need to tell 
another story, one of Big Brother and protecting our children from 
predators on the internet with projects like ghostery and collusion: 
http://www.ted.com/talks/gary_kovacs_tracking_the_trackers.html

Who's with me? Should we reach out to Gary Kovacs and others at Mozilla 
and EFF to see if we can't help create an Alliance for Personal Internet 
Liberty?

Cheers,
Dave.


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