---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: La Quadrature du Net <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 7:45 PM Subject: [opennetcoalition] La Quadrature du Net supports Reporters Without Borders against the German Surveillance Law To: [email protected] Press Release *Tags : *SURVEILLANCE, GERMANY, JOURNALISTS, REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS, PRIVACY La Quadrature du Net — For immediate release Permanent link: https://www.laquadrature.net/en/LQDN-RWB-surveillance- Germany La Quadrature du Net supports Reporters Without Borders against the German Surveillance Law Paris, 12 August 2016 — *La Quadrature du Net supports Reporters Without Borders with its action against the German bill on BND surveillance <https://rsf.org/en/campaigns/reporters-without-borders-leads-international-alliance-campaign-against-surveillance-foreign>, which would allow the German foreign intelligence service to spy on foreign journalists. This bill is a direct attack on freedom of information, and thus undermines democracy and fundamental rights. German MPs must refuse to yield on values that they would defend for their own country just as well as foreign surveillance is concerned. Fundamental rights cannot simply be accommodated whenever convenient.* La Quadrature du Net seizes the opportunity to remind that attacks on the rights of journalists, which are indeed intolerable, must not distract from massive infringement on the fundamental rights of the whole of the population, as entailed in the various surveillance laws passed in the recent years across European Union Member-States and which, far too often, are in contradiction with the principles of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. Similarly, foreign surveillance laws should serve as warnings on conditions by which intelligence, individually targeted or wide-ranging, is being shared between European Member-States and third parties, as well as on agreements to share or access interception systems : usually downright absent from the laws on foreign intelligence (in France or elsewhere), these provisions constitute a grave danger of collateral surveillance being carried out in the greatest opacity and with no avenue of appeal. *Sign the petition <https://www.reporter-ohne-grenzen.de/mitmachen/petition-bnd-en/> to prevent foreign journalists from German intelligence spying* About La Quadrature du Net La Quadrature du Net is an advocacy group that defends the rights and freedoms of citizens on the Internet. More specifically, it advocates for the adaptation of French and European legislations to respect the founding principles of the Internet, most notably the free circulation of knowledge.

In addition to its advocacy work, the group also aims to foster a better understanding of legislative processes among citizens. Through specific and pertinent information and tools, La Quadrature du Net hopes to encourage citizens' participation in the public debate on rights and freedoms in the digital age.

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