20 Amendments of Ilhan KYUCHYUK related to 2014/2232(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
- having regard to the report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism of 23 September 2014 (A/69/375)1a, __________________ 1ahttp://daccess-dds- ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N14/545/19/ PDF/N1454519.pdf?OpenElement
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 b (new)
Citation 6 b (new)
- having regard to the report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of expression and opinion of 17 April 2013 (A/HRC/23/40) on the implications of states' surveillance of communications on the exercise of the human rights to privacy and to freedom of opinion and expression,
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the context in which ICTs are designed and used determines, to a great extent, the impact they can have as a force to advance or to violate human rights, information technology, especially software is rarely single-use and usually dual-use as far as their potential to violate human rights is concerned, while software also is a form of speech;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas the assessment of the context is determined by the strength of national and regional legal frameworks to regulate the use of technologies and the ability of political and judicial institutions to oversee such use;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas in the digital domain, private actors play an increasingly significant role in all spheres of social activities, but safeguards are still not in place to prevent them from imposing excessive restrictions on fundamental rights and freedoms; as a result, private actors play a more active role in assessing the legality of content and in developing cyber security systems and surveillance systems, which can have a detrimental impact on human rights all over the world;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E d (new)
Recital E d (new)
Ed. whereas EU-based intelligence services have engaged in activities that harm human rights;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E e (new)
Recital E e (new)
Ee. whereas in light of rapid technological developments, judicial and democratic oversight and safeguards are largely underdeveloped;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that the role of ICTimpact of technologies on the improvement of human rights should be mainstreamed in all EU policies and programmes to advance human rights protection;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for the active development and dissemination of technologies that help protect human rights and facilitate people´s digital freedoms and securityrights and freedoms as well as their security, along with promoting best practices and appropriate legislative frameworks;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the EU to increase its support for actors, those who work on strengthening security and privacy protection standards in ICTs on all levels, including hardware, software and communication standards as well as the development of the hardware and software in privacy-by-design frameworks;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls for a human rights and technology fund to be established under the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Urges the EU itself, and in particular the EEAS, to use encryption in its communications with human rights defenders, to avoid putting defenders at risk and to protect its own communications with outsiders from surveillance;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Calls on the EU to adopt free and open source software as well as to encourage other actors to do so, as such software provides for better security and for greater respect for human rights;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for the inclusion of conditionality clauses in all agreements with third countries which explicitly refer to the need to guarantee and respect digital freedoms, net neutrality and unrestricted access to the internet;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Urges the EU to counter the criminalisation of human rights defenders' use of encryption, censorship- bypassing and privacy tools, by refusing to limit the use of encryption within the EU and challenge third country governments which use such charges against defenders;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses that corporate social responsibility principles and human rights by design criteria, which are technological solutions and innovations protecting human rights, should be adopted in EU law to ensure that internet service providers, software developers, hardware producers, social networking services/media, mobile phone carriers and others consider the human rights of end- users globally;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Reaffirms that EU standards, particularly the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, should prevail when assessing incidents when dual-use technologies are used in a way that may restrict human rights;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 d (new)
Paragraph 20 d (new)
20d. Recalls the importance of assessing the context within which technologies are used, in order to fully appreciate their human rights impact;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 j (new)
Paragraph 20 j (new)
20j. Calls on the Commission to appoint an independent group of experts who can perform a human rights impact assessment on existing EU standards for ICTs, with the goal of making recommendations for adjustments that will increase the protection of human rights, particularly when systems are exported;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Underlines the need to avoid unintended consequences such as restrictions or chilling effects on research, on the exchange of and access to information or on the export of technologies that are in the interest of advancing human rights;