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The IT-Political Association (Danish: IT-Politisk Forening, commonly known as IT-Pol) is a Danish non-profit NGO, which works to collect information on IT and convey this to politicians and the society to get the best possible grounds for legislation. The association is independent of political parties and communicates with politicians from all political parties. Membership is open to anyone.
IT-Pol is the Danish equivalent of the
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California. The foundation was formed on 10 July 1990 by John Gilmore, John Perry Barlow and Mitch Kapor to promote Internet ci ...
.
The Free Software privacy CD, Polippix, was started by the IT-Political Association.
Issues
IT-Pol is primarily concerned with issues that restricts citizens and innovation.
Censorship
Denmark is one of the countries in which most ISPs filters DNS traffic by default. IT-Pol regards this policy ascensorship
Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information. This may be done on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient". Censorship can be conducted by governments ...
, as the filter filters content that is legal to view in Denmark.
Privacy
The Danish surveillance law, Overvågningsloven was actively fought by IT-Pol. IT-Pol developed a CD called Polippix that can mitigate most of the Internet related surveillance included in the surveillance law.Software patents
IT-Pol believes software patents are not beneficial for innovation and therefore fights Software Patents.Copyright
IT-Pol believes the balance between society and rights holder should be pushed more towards the society.Digital Rights Management
IT-Pol believesDigital Rights Management
Digital rights management (DRM) is the management of legal access to digital content. Various tools or technological protection measures (TPM) such as access control technologies can restrict the use of proprietary hardware and copyrighted works. ...
causes problems for normal citizens and therefore is not in the interest of the citizens. IT-Pol therefore fights DRM.
Open Standards
IT-Pol believes open standards will foster innovation and remove lock-in. IT-Pol therefore promotes Open Standards and fights proprietary standards.E-voting
IT-Pol believesE-voting
Electronic voting (also known as e-voting) is voting that uses electronic means to either aid or take care of casting and counting ballots.
Depending on the particular implementation, e-voting may use standalone ''electronic voting machines'' ( ...
should only be allowed if the election has an analog audit trail (paper trail).
Use of IT in the public sector
IT-Pol believes thepublic sector
The public sector, also called the state sector, is the part of the economy composed of both public services and public enterprises. Public sectors include the public goods and governmental services such as the military, law enforcement, infra ...
should use IT that makes interoperation with the citizens easier.
Spam
IT-Pol supports the ban on E-mail spam.References
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