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Lillie Coney Associate Director EPIC 1
The Privacy Symposium 2008
Lillie ConeyRoundtable on the Evolving Role of Privacy Advocacy
Harvard UniversityAugust 20, 2008
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Introduction
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The Internet’s Impact on Advocacy
• Geography Neutral• Minimal Participation Requirements• Short Time Horizons• Collaboration• Coordination
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Networking Networks
• Participation2
• Communication Strategies• Sustaining Coalitions• Monitoring the Environment• Recognizing an Opportunity
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Formula for Success
• Leading with Issues not Ideology– Finding mutual interest among competing policy
organizations– Identifying an opportunity– Translating the opportunity into action– Keeping the policy message in the natural issue
space for participants
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Examples
• End the DOD Database (see: http://epic.org/privacy/student/doddatabase.html)
• Stop the REAL ID (see: http://privacycoalition.org/stoprealid/)
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Campaign to End the DOD Database
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Coalition Building 101
• The Issue: Department of Defense Violation of Privacy Act Public Notice Requirement– Creation of a database of all 16-25 year olds– No federal register notice prior to creating the
database– Sources for some of the information in the database
used deceptive practices– No opt-in– Opt-out resulted in inclusion in another DOD
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Mutual Interest
• Privacy Organizations• Peace Groups• Youth Organizations• Government Accountability Groups• Civil Liberties Organizations• Civil Rights Organizations
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Indentifying an Opportunity
• DOD Published a Federal Register Notice on its plans to allow a contractor to provided services based on information in the database
• EPIC reported that the database violated Federal Privacy Act requirements
• A news article in the Washington Post
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Translating an Opportunity into Action
• EPIC and Over 120 Groups sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld urging that he end the "Joint Advertising and Market Research Studies" Recruiting Database. (October 2005) http://privacycoalition.org/nododdatabase/letter.html
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Broad CoalitionAlliance for Democracy (Seacoast, NH)American Civil Liberties UnionAmerican Friends Service CommitteeAmerican Policy CenterAmerican-Arab Anti-Discrimination CommitteeBill of Rights Defense CommitteeCarolina Peace Resource CenterCatholic Peace Fellowship (NJ)Center on Conscience & WarCenter for Democracy & TechnologyCenter for Digital DemocracyCitizens for an Informed Community (Bridgewater, MA)City of New Haven Peace CommissionCommon Cause Commonweal Institute Community Alliance of Lane County (OR)
Consumer ActionElectronic Frontier FoundationElectronic Privacy Information CenterFairfax County Privacy CouncilFirst Amendment FoundationFirst Universalist Church of Essex Social Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quaker)Government Accountability ProjectGray Panthers of Long Beach (CA)Greater New Haven Peace Council (CT)Iowa Peace Task ForceJust Peace CommitteeLiberty CoalitionMaui Community College Peace Club (HI)Maui Peace Action (HI)Michigan PeaceworksNational Center for Transgender Equality
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Broad CoalitionNational Youth and Student Peace CoalitionPax Christi Long IslandPeace ActionPeterborough Unitarian Universalist Social Justice CommitteePittsburgh Bill of Rights DefenseCampaignPort Townsend Peace MovementPrivacy ActivismPrivacy JournalPrivacy Rights ClearinghousePrivacy TimesProgressive Student Alliance of the College of New JerseyRepublican Liberty CaucusRock the VoteSeacoast Peace Response
Student Peace Action NetworkStudent/Farmworker AllianceThe Multiracial ActivistThe Organizing CollectiveThe Rutherford InstituteTitle of Liberty FoundationUnitarian Universalist Social Responsibility Department (NH)US Bill of Rights FoundationUS Peace CouncilVancouver for Peace (WA)Veterans for Common SenseVeterans For Peace chapter 099 (Asheville, NC)Washington Truth in Recruiting (WA)West Virginia Patriots for PeaceWomen Against WarWomen For: Orange County (CA)World Privacy Forum
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Campaign to Stop the REAL ID
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Taking Action
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Broad CoalitionAmerican Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial OrganizationsAmerican Library Association American PolicyAmerican-Arab Anti-Discrimination CommitteeAsian American Legal Defense and Education FundAssociation of American Physicians & SurgeonsBill of Rights Defense CommitteeCenter for Digital DemocracyCenter for Financial Privacy and Human RightsCitizen Outreach ProjectCitizens Against Government WasteCoalition Against Prosecutorial Abuse
Common CauseComputing Professionals for Social ResponsibilityConsumer ActionDownsizeDC.orgElectronic Frontier FoundationElectronic Privacy Information CenterFairfax County Privacy CouncilGive Me Back My Rights CoalitionGovernment Accountability ProjectGun Owners of AmericaImmigrant Workers UnionLeadership Conference on Civil RightsLiberty CoalitionNational Center for Transgender EqualityNational Council of Jewish WomenNational Council of La Raza
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Broad CoalitionNational Gay and Lesbian Task ForceNational Immigration Law CenterOpenCarry.orgParents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and GaysPatient Privacy Rights FoundationPeople for the American WayPrivacy ActivismPrivacy Rights ClearinghousePrivacy TimesRepublican Liberty CaucusRutherford Institute, TheThe Arc of the United States United Cerebral PalsyThe Multiracial ActivistUS Bill of Rights FoundationVirginia Citizens Defense League
Virginia Gun Owners CoalitionWorld Privacy Forum
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Making Room for Late ArrivalsAmerica's Right to PrivacyArizona Citizens Defense LeagueAsian American Justice CenterArtist Activism NetworkConstitution Party of North CarolinaConsumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (CASPIAN)Consumer Federation of CaliforniaCenter for Democracy & TechnologyLabornetLaborTechThe Loyal NineOklahoma Defense of Freedom ProjectPogoWasRight.orgPrivacyRightsNow.comSouth Asian American Leaders of TomorrowYoung Democrats of America
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Spreading the Word Online
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Spreading the Word Online
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The Future of Organizing is the Internet
• Rapid Response Issue Teams– Creating Links among groups that monitor specific
policy spaces– Planning action oriented campaigns– Recruiting campaign participants– Maximizing the democratic experience: freedom
of speech, freedom of association, freedom of the press, freedom of expression, the right to know what government is doing in our name
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Lessons Learned
• Campaigns Should be Short• Focus on a Simple Action Item– Send a letter, Submit comments, etc
• Engage the Largest and most diverse Pool of Participants as Possible
• 501(c)3 v. 501(c)4
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EPIC Online
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EPIC Online
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