Founded 2002, Denmark Website www.itpol.dk | Headquarters Denmark | |
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Type non-profit organization | ||
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.
Contents
- Issues
- Censorship
- Privacy
- Software patents
- Copyright
- Digital Rights Management
- Open Standards
- E voting
- Use of IT in the public sector
- Spam
- References
IT-Pol is the Danish equivalent of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
The Free Software privacy CD, Polippix, was started by and is still maintained by 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 as censorship, as the filter filters content that is legal to view in Denmark.
Privacy
The Danish surveillance law, Overvågningsloven (Danish) 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 believes Digital Rights Management 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 believes E-voting should only be allowed if the election has an analog audit trail (paper trail).
Use of IT in the public sector
IT-Pol believes the public sector should use IT that makes interoperation with the citizens easier.
Spam
IT-Pol supports the ban on E-mail spam.