<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Barrack</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Thanks for sharing. The world is on free flow right now when it comes to privacy and the rule of law. If the 'Bastion' of Freedom and the leader of the 'Free World' can operate in such a draconian fashion what are we to do in Africa? </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">There are those of our leaders across the continent who will seize on this opportunity with glee and use the US as an example of what a country can and should do in the face of protecting the Motherland. To them we say this:-</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">The US, under Trump is probably the best example of what a system of Democracy, of checks and balances, of activists and those within the Trump Administration who don't agree with his policies can do to put a check on some of those excesses.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">As Barrack Obama said in the waning days of his presidency:-</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><b>"Change only happens when ordinary people get involved, get engaged and come together to demand it. I am asking you to believe. Not in my ability to bring about change - but in yours"<br></b><br>Be the instrument that keeps our Governments on the straight and narrow.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Principal</b></span></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hussein & Associates</b></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">+254 0713 601113 </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font></font></span><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Skype: abu-jomo</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a></span></p><font><br></font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." ~ Aristotle</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On 22 Feb 2017, at 5:29 AM, Barrack Otieno via isoc <<a href="mailto:isoc@lists.my.co.ke">isoc@lists.my.co.ke</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Listers,</span><br><span></span><br><span>For your information and attention. Circulate widely</span><br><span></span><br><span>---------- Forwarded message ----------</span><br><span>From: Dan York <<a href="mailto:york@isoc.org">york@isoc.org</a>></span><br><span>Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 14:50:11 +0000</span><br><span>Subject: [Internet Policy] FYI - Joint statement by 50 orgs on</span><br><span>proposal to require social media passwords at US border</span><br><span>To: Internet Policy External <<a href="mailto:internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org">internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org</a>></span><br><span></span><br><span>FYI, today the Internet Society joined with 50 other organizations to</span><br><span>issue a joint statement expressing concerns about a proposal to</span><br><span>require disclosure of social media account passwords as a condition of</span><br><span>entry to the U.S.:</span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="https://cdt.org/insight/no-to-dhs-social-media-password-requirement/">https://cdt.org/insight/no-to-dhs-social-media-password-requirement/</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>We published our own companion statement as a post from our President</span><br><span>and CEO Kathy Brown:</span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/public-policy/2017/02/internet-society-speaks-out-against-proposed-password-disclosure">https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/public-policy/2017/02/internet-society-speaks-out-against-proposed-password-disclosure</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>That has been shared on our @InternetSociety social media channels at:</span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="https://twitter.com/internetsociety/status/834044479501959169">https://twitter.com/internetsociety/status/834044479501959169</a></span><br><span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/photos/a.10150120109253239.254763.56134108238/10154045837103239/?type=3&theater">https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/photos/a.10150120109253239.254763.56134108238/10154045837103239/?type=3&theater</a></span><br><span><a href="https://plus.google.com/+InternetSociety/posts/92XyJvx4yzk">https://plus.google.com/+InternetSociety/posts/92XyJvx4yzk</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>Additionally, we also published a supporting post explaining more</span><br><span>about why social media accounts are of such a great concern:</span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/tech-matters/2017/02/danger-giving-social-media-passwords-so-many-other-services-are-connected">https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/tech-matters/2017/02/danger-giving-social-media-passwords-so-many-other-services-are-connected</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>We will be circulating that on our social channels as well.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Any assistance with amplifying these messages on social channels would</span><br><span>be greatly appreciated.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Thank you,</span><br><span>Dan</span><br><span></span><br><span>--</span><br><span>Dan York</span><br><span>Senior Manager, Content & Web Strategy, Internet Society</span><br><span><a href="mailto:york@isoc.org">york@isoc.org</a><<a href="mailto:york@isoc.org">mailto:york@isoc.org</a>> +1-802-735-1624</span><br><span>Jabber: <a href="mailto:york@jabber.isoc.org">york@jabber.isoc.org</a><<a href="mailto:york@jabber.isoc.org">mailto:york@jabber.isoc.org</a>></span><br><span>Skype: danyork <a href="http://twitter.com/danyork">http://twitter.com/danyork</a></span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/">http://www.internetsociety.org/</a></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>-- </span><br><span>Barrack O. 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