Transatlantic Solutions to Government Surveillance

New America Foundation and Heinrich Boell Foundation
Tuesday March 25, 2014
12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

Last year, revelations about the National Security Agency's digital surveillance created a breach of trust between the United States and close international allies. European citizens, in Germany in particular, remain concerned about the state and scope of both NSA activity as well as the online spying activity of their own governments.

An individual's right to privacy is now outside the power of a single nation state to protect. As the globalization of communications continues, increased international coordination between governments is needed in order for trust to be restored and individuals to feel secure online. What is the path forward?

Join this event co-sponsored by New America's Open Technology Institute and the Heinrich Boell Foundation, a German think tank, as we seek to start the discussion, "how do we modernize international privacy policy to account for the power of digital surveillance?"

The event will feature European elected officials and political leaders who are working to improve privacy laws, both in Germany and the E.U. They will provide updates on their work as well as share thoughts on how transatlantic dialogue could be structured and what international solutions to the problem of government surveillance could look like.

Featured Speakers:
Konstantin von Notz
Member of German Parliament
@KonstantinNotz

Jan Philipp Albrecht
Member of European Parliament
@JanAlbrecht

Malte Spitz
Member of the Federal Party Council of the German Green Party
@malteSpitz

Moderator:
Kevin Bankston
Policy Director, New America's Open Technology Institute
@KevinBankston

To RSVP for the event:
http://www.newamerica.org/events/2014/solutions_to_government_surveillance

For questions, contact Kirsten Holtz at New America at (202) 735-2806 or holtz@newamerica.org