[Advocacy Advisors] [Wikimedia-l] WMF response to PRISM?

[Luis Villa]

On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Amgine <amgine at wikimedians.ca> wrote:

> On 09/07/13 12:41 PM, Luis Villa wrote:
> > I discussed this a bit yesterday in the talk page and will flesh
> > that out more, but the specific concern (raised here, on the blog,
> > and in the talk page) is that stopwatching is too US-focused. When
> > counting those concerns as anti-stopwatching votes, the ratio
> > appears more balanced (and the numbers are quite small, as well).
>
>
> While I'm hardly likely to be accused of being an interventionist, how
> does "Don't be US-centric" equate with "Don't do anything"?


It does not! I think it is more like:

1. Don't sign stopwatching.us, or do anything else too US-focused.
2. Internally, do be careful with (or as necessary improve) WMF's own
privacy processes.
3. Externally, do (unspecified something).

For #2, see the discussion on the privacy policy revision:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy/Call_for_input_%282013%29

For #3, we're still very open to doing that unspecified something. We just
don't see any consensus on what the unspecified something is, other than
"not something US-focused".

So please, we're definitely open to anything around #3 that can get
consensus, like (say) James' suggestion that we promote prism-break. We
would actively *like* to do that (several people here have signed various
petitions as individuals, for example). We just don't see what that is yet.

Hope that helps clarify-
Luis

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