CleanIT discussion document leaked online

A leaked document from the CleanIT project, which was set up to create voluntary guidelines to stamp out terrorism online, reveals suggestions for wide-ranging surveillance.

The recommendations’ advise that ISPs should be held liable for not making reasonable efforts to use technological surveillance to identify terrorist use of the internet. They also urge companies to filter employees’ internet connections and suggest that it must be legal for police to patrol on social media.

Other issues that are up for discussion include making it illegal to knowingly provide hyperlinks to terrorist content on websites; allowing only real common names when registering with an internet company, and; media companies only allowing real pictures of users.

CleanIT’s website includes a public version of the recommendations of the group, which are quite different from the document posted by EDRi. However, But Klaasen, CleanIT project leader said that the private document was just food for discussion, despite the fact that it is entitled ‘Detailed Recommendations Document’.

“The term ‘recommendations’ on the food for discussion document is misleading, we shouldn’t have used that term. These are just ideas that we are collecting. The public document contains the points that we have reached a consensus on. When the project ends at the beginning of 2013, all plans and documents will be published,” said Klaasen.

CleanIT’s next meeting is in October, and the next conference will be held in Vienna on November 5/6.

For more information
www.cleanitproject.eu