124. Notes the potential shown by the internet in promoting and supporting the revolutions of the ‘Arab Spring’; notes, however, that ICTs can also be misused to violate human rights and fundamental freedoms and calls,therefore, for increased monitoring of the use of the internet and new technologies in autocratic regimes that seek to limit them; welcomes the Commission initiative on the ‘No Disconnection Strategy’; invites the Commission to submit, during the course of 2013 at the latest, smart regulatory proposals, including increased transparency and accountability for EU-based companies, in order to improve the monitoring of the export of products and services aimed at blocking websites, mass surveillance, monitoring all internet tra ...[+++]ffic and (mobile) communications, breaking into private conversations and transcribing them, filtering search results, and intimidating internet users including human rights defenders; believes telecommunications and internet service providers must learn the lessons of past mistakes, such as Vodafone's decision to give in to demands from the Egyptian authorities in the last weeks of the Mubarak regime to suspend services, to disseminate pro-government propaganda and to monitor opponents and the population in general as well as the societies of other Member States who have sold telecommunications technologies and information to other third countries such as Libya, Tunisia etc; believes telecommunications and internet service providers and software developers must learn the lessons of past mistakes, and should engage with policymakers, NGOs and activists in an open dialogue in order to set common minimum standards for human rights impact assessments and increased transparency;

118. Notes the potential shown by the internet in promoting and supporting the revolutions of the ‘Arab Spring‘; notes, however, that ICTs can also be misused to violate human rights and fundamental freedoms and calls,therefore, for increased monitoring of the use of the internet and new technologies in autocratic regimes that seek to limit them; welcomes the Commission initiative on the ‘No Disconnection Strategy’; invites the Commission to submit, during the course of 2013 at the latest, smart regulatory proposals, including increased transparency and accountability for EU-based companies, in order to improve the monitoring of the export of products and services aimed at blocking websites, mass surveillance, monitoring all internet tra ...[+++]ffic and (mobile) communications, breaking into private conversations and transcribing them, filtering search results, and intimidating internet users including human rights defenders; believes telecommunications and internet service providers must learn the lessons of past mistakes, such as Vodafone’s decision to give in to demands from the Egyptian authorities in the last weeks of the Mubarak regime to suspend services, to disseminate pro-government propaganda and to monitor opponents and the population in general as well as the societies of other Member States who have sold telecommunications technologies and information to other third countries such as Libya, Tunisia etc; believes telecommunications and internet service providers and software developers must learn the lessons of past mistakes, and should engage with policymakers, NGOs and activists in an open dialogue in order to set common minimum standards for human rights impact assessments and increased transparency;

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