The EC Digital Agenda Commissioner, Neelie Kroes has announced on Monday the launch of a new strategy, called "No-Disconnect", aimed at helping human rights activists around the world to protect their Internet freedom.
This initiative follows another move adopted a few days ago by the European Parliament under the guidance of Dutch liberal MEP Marietje Schaakje to create an Internet freedom Fund.
A former German defence minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg has been invited by the Dutch liberal European Commissioner to assist with this work.
The purpose of the "No-Disconnect" project is to help activists protect their privacy and security, training them, monitoring the level of surveillance and potential repression against online activists and foster cooperation among all stakeholders.
The project is also focused on the question of the sale of surveillance technology by European companies to authoritarian regimes.
According to Catherine Ashton, the "EU foreign minister": "Human rights policy is not just an add-on. It is a silver thread which runs through everything we do. The right to communicate freely is a key part of basic human rights".
This initiative follows another move adopted a few days ago by the European Parliament under the guidance of Dutch liberal MEP Marietje Schaakje to create an Internet freedom Fund.
A former German defence minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg has been invited by the Dutch liberal European Commissioner to assist with this work.
The purpose of the "No-Disconnect" project is to help activists protect their privacy and security, training them, monitoring the level of surveillance and potential repression against online activists and foster cooperation among all stakeholders.
The project is also focused on the question of the sale of surveillance technology by European companies to authoritarian regimes.
According to Catherine Ashton, the "EU foreign minister": "Human rights policy is not just an add-on. It is a silver thread which runs through everything we do. The right to communicate freely is a key part of basic human rights".
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