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=Public policy and advocacy at Mozilla= | |||
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* Internet | ==Issues and Activities== | ||
* | The Internet policy issues we engage with fall into two broad pillars of activity: trust and openness. | ||
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* | ===Trust + integrity=== | ||
* | Our work on trust and integrity policy begins with the established external contexts of surveillance reform and privacy, working to develop the values of control, transparency, and privacy. Active issues in this pillar of our work include: | ||
* | * Surveillance reform - touching on a multifaceted set of geographic and legal contexts, and a range of active, unresolved issues | ||
* | * Security public policy - finding opportunities for change advocacy that go above and beyond information sharing and risk management, including fighting for the continued freedom of users to communicate securely, without backdoors | ||
* | * Privacy - continuing leadership on raising public awareness of privacy to build a better, more open Internet future | ||
* | * Data collection and use - creating counter-incentives for excessive collection, and/or incentives for better data stewardship and management, including: | ||
** Awareness, education and literacy, e.g. Lightbeam, Privacy Coach | |||
** Direct empowerment, e.g. DNT, tracking protection (Polaris) | |||
** Policy, e.g. standardizing/harmonizing privacy protections | |||
** Experiment w/ privacy-friendly advertising, data practices, e.g. Tiles, UP | |||
* Other issues as they develop globally, e.g. “Right to Forget” | |||
===Openness + innovation=== | |||
Our work on openness and innovation includes, but goes beyond, net neutrality and intellectual property, centering around the values of competition, interoperability, and innovation. Active issues in this pillar include: | |||
* Net neutrality - protecting the Internet’s status quo of a level playing field to promote innovation, competition, and user choice | |||
* Copyright - engaging in U.S. and E.U. conversations with the objective of strengthening fair use and interoperability to promote technology innovation | |||
* Patent - process reforms to discourage excessive and anti-innovation litigation, paired with targeted advocacy efforts around vague, broad software patents | |||
* Interoperability - cross-cutting IP and other issues, siloing of technologies creates gatekeepers and potential for multidisciplinary work on interoperability | |||
* Internet governance - global Internet governance forums and structures are ever shifting, creating potential for change, despite glacial pace of processes | |||
* Access - new Internet users are born every day, some through low-cost Firefox OS smartphones; policy has some opportunities to accelerate adoption more | |||
* Telecom - spectrum, competition, IP transition, and over-the-top services create opportunities for effective advocacy + leadership for the right independent voice | |||
==Meetings and Mailing Lists== | ==Meetings and Mailing Lists== | ||
===Mailing List=== | ===Mailing List=== | ||
https://discourse.mozilla-advocacy.org/ | |||
Open forum for Mozilla public policy and Advocacy Community engagement, including open discussion of policy issues along with project and job opportunities and other engagements. | |||
We have a [https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/netpolicy mailing list], open to any Mozillian or invited guest. Archives are viewable by list members. | We also have a [https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/netpolicy mailing list], open to any Mozillian or invited guest. Archives are viewable by list members. Historically, this mailing list was the primary place for discussion. Recently, we have been trying to encourage greater use of Discourse as a substitute, | ||
== | ==New Ideas== | ||
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If you have policy issues or topics in this area that you think Mozilla should consider intervening on or which need support, please [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/form.ipp submit them for consideration]. Before doing so, you might want to read the "Purpose" section to make sure it falls within our remit. | If you have policy issues or topics in this area that you think Mozilla should consider intervening on or which need support, please [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/form.ipp submit them for consideration]. Before doing so, you might want to read the "Purpose" section to make sure it falls within our remit. | ||
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==Past Issues and Activities== | ==Past Issues and Activities== | ||
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===Marco Civil=== | ===Marco Civil=== | ||
Revision as of 23:17, 9 September 2015
Public policy and advocacy at Mozilla
insert description here
Issues and Activities
The Internet policy issues we engage with fall into two broad pillars of activity: trust and openness.
Trust + integrity
Our work on trust and integrity policy begins with the established external contexts of surveillance reform and privacy, working to develop the values of control, transparency, and privacy. Active issues in this pillar of our work include:
- Surveillance reform - touching on a multifaceted set of geographic and legal contexts, and a range of active, unresolved issues
- Security public policy - finding opportunities for change advocacy that go above and beyond information sharing and risk management, including fighting for the continued freedom of users to communicate securely, without backdoors
- Privacy - continuing leadership on raising public awareness of privacy to build a better, more open Internet future
- Data collection and use - creating counter-incentives for excessive collection, and/or incentives for better data stewardship and management, including:
- Awareness, education and literacy, e.g. Lightbeam, Privacy Coach
- Direct empowerment, e.g. DNT, tracking protection (Polaris)
- Policy, e.g. standardizing/harmonizing privacy protections
- Experiment w/ privacy-friendly advertising, data practices, e.g. Tiles, UP
- Other issues as they develop globally, e.g. “Right to Forget”
Openness + innovation
Our work on openness and innovation includes, but goes beyond, net neutrality and intellectual property, centering around the values of competition, interoperability, and innovation. Active issues in this pillar include:
- Net neutrality - protecting the Internet’s status quo of a level playing field to promote innovation, competition, and user choice
- Copyright - engaging in U.S. and E.U. conversations with the objective of strengthening fair use and interoperability to promote technology innovation
- Patent - process reforms to discourage excessive and anti-innovation litigation, paired with targeted advocacy efforts around vague, broad software patents
- Interoperability - cross-cutting IP and other issues, siloing of technologies creates gatekeepers and potential for multidisciplinary work on interoperability
- Internet governance - global Internet governance forums and structures are ever shifting, creating potential for change, despite glacial pace of processes
- Access - new Internet users are born every day, some through low-cost Firefox OS smartphones; policy has some opportunities to accelerate adoption more
- Telecom - spectrum, competition, IP transition, and over-the-top services create opportunities for effective advocacy + leadership for the right independent voice
Meetings and Mailing Lists
Mailing List
https://discourse.mozilla-advocacy.org/ Open forum for Mozilla public policy and Advocacy Community engagement, including open discussion of policy issues along with project and job opportunities and other engagements.
We also have a mailing list, open to any Mozillian or invited guest. Archives are viewable by list members. Historically, this mailing list was the primary place for discussion. Recently, we have been trying to encourage greater use of Discourse as a substitute,
New Ideas
replace this with updated info - check level of heading as well
If you have policy issues or topics in this area that you think Mozilla should consider intervening on or which need support, please submit them for consideration. Before doing so, you might want to read the "Purpose" section to make sure it falls within our remit.
Purpose
What's Mozilla's role in public policy?
Mozilla believes the Web should be open and available to everyone, and this openness is essential to a healthy cyber economy. We focus on advancing key characteristics of the open Web, not specific functions like social media or videos, which will always be in flux.
The strength of the Web and its economy rests on a number of core building blocks that make up its foundational DNA. Think of them as requirements to support a full range of social, business, governmental, and educational interactions and communications that underlie the importance of the Web in our lives today.
When these building blocks are threatened, the overall health and well-being of the Web are put at risk. For instance, recent attempts to change copyright through SOPA in the US and ACTA around the world undermine the distributed nature of the Web, its interoperability, security, and ultimately the rights of users themselves. Another example is attempts by network operators to block, degrade or discriminate the flow of data across their systems, which threaten to restrict access to the Web and degrade the resilience of the Internet for millions of users.
In terms of regulating the Web, the primary challenge for any legislative process is anticipating unintended consequences, given the complexities inherent in the Web, its architecture, the relationships between its many stakeholders and the pace of innovation.
The Mozilla Public Policy Module works with our community of users and developers to provide products and services that make the Web more robust, and take action when the Web’s DNA is threatened. We want to empower anyone to become a steward of the healthy Web and ensure its open characteristics remain intact for the next 2 billion people who join.
So what do we do?
We engage in public affairs matters when Mozilla can make a difference by both advancing and defending the web:
- without compromising core code and product efforts
- only when Mozilla can add extra value
- directly or indirectly
How do we do it?
We'll use a variety of techniques, tools and assets depending on the situation and what's at stake to express our voice when and where it matters. The action steps include:
- educate and inform
- organize and convene
- enable and support
- advocate and engage
- hack, code and implement
We will do these things in concert with Mozilla community members and like minded organizations spread across the globe.
Past Issues and Activities
review and update the below, and convert to a separate page for a repository of past actions for reference - link to advocacy subpage?
Marco Civil
SOPA and ACTA
- https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2012/01/17/mozilla-to-join-tomorrows-virtual-protests-of-pipasopa/
- http://lockshot.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/sopa-the-stop-online-piracy-act-is-it-really-dangerous/
- http://lockshot.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/homeland-security-request-to-take-down-mafiaafire-add-on/
- http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121210/06543921321/mozilla-helped-to-stop-sopa-january-now-its-worried-about-wcit.shtml
ITU/WCIT
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/ITU/
- https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2012/12/12/the-tragedy-of-the-itu/
- https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2012/12/02/why-is-itu-governance-of-the-internet-a-bad-idea/
- https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2012/11/29/the-itu-and-you/
Net Neutrality
Browser Market Competition
- https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2009/08/17/proposed-microsoft-ec-settlement/
- http://lockshot.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/thoughts-on-microsoft%E2%80%99s-settlement-proposal-in-the-european-commission%E2%80%99s-tying-investigation/
- http://lockshot.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/thoughts-on-microsoft%E2%80%99s-settlement-proposal-in-the-european-commission%E2%80%99s-tying-investigation/
- http://lockshot.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/windows-eu-ballot-screen-technical-glitch/
DMCA/Copyright/Jailbreaking
- http://www.pcworld.com/article/159822/iphone_jailbreak.html
- https://twitter.com/chefhja/status/201014228293910528
- http://lockshot.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/comments-supporting-dmca-jailbreaking-exemption/
Encryption and Open Source
- http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/18/234248/mozilla-firefox-not-in-violation-of-us-export-rules
- http://lockshot.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/recent-changes-in-us-crypto-export-rules/
Trust and Privacy
- http://www.ibtimes.com/firefox-maker-mozilla-named-most-trusted-internet-company-privacy-2012-1045844
- https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2012/07/03/mozilla-testifies-at-us-senate-commerce-hearing-on-do-not-track/
- https://blog.mozilla.org/privacy/category/privacy/
- https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2009/09/21/keeping-you-and-me-at-the-center-of-things/
- https://blog.mozilla.org/privacy/2013/01/28/newdntui/
- https://blog.mozilla.org/privacy/2012/05/17/do-not-track-gains-more-support-around-the-web/
- https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/files/2014/07/Mozilla-Commerce-Committee-Testimony-Privacy-June-2012.pdf
- https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/files/2014/07/Mozilla-Statement-April-24-2013-Commerce-Committee-Do-Not-Track.pdf
- https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/files/2014/07/Mozilla-Responses-to-Senate-Questions-May-31-Do-Not-Track.pdf