EPIC, Amnesty International Urge President Obama to Support Privacy in Annual State of the Union
EPIC President Marc Rotenberg, Amnesty International Secretary General Salil Shetty, and members of the EPIC Advisory Board have asked President Obama to support privacy and the international privacy convention in the annual State of the Union speech next week. The State of the Union falls this year on January 28, which is also International Privacy Day. EPIC and Amnesty are urging the President to express support for privacy as a fundamental human right and to begin the process of ratification of the international Privacy Convention, supported by more than forty countries around the world. In 2013, many members of the US Congress, including Senator Patrick Leahy, expressed support for International Privacy Day. Members of the EPIC Advisory Board also wrote to then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about the Privacy Convention, urging US support. For more information, EPIC - Council of Europe Privacy Convention, EPIC - Letter to Secretary Clinton (2010).
January 23, 2014| Share:
