CIS Cybersecurity Series (Part 7) – Jochem de Groot

“The basic principle that I think we must continue to embrace is that rights online are the same as rights offline… The amount of information that is available online is so enormous that it would be easy for governments to abuse that information for all kinds of purposes… And we are at a stage right now where we are really experimenting with how much information the govt or law enforcement can take to ensure the rule of law.” – Jochem de Groot

Centre for Internet and Society presents its seventh installment of the CIS Cybersecurity Series.

The CIS Cybersecurity Series seeks to address hotly debated aspects of cybersecurity and hopes to encourage wider public discourse around the topic.

In this installment, CIS interviews Jochem de Groot. Jochem has worked on the Netherlands government’s agenda to promote Internet freedom globally since 2009. He initiated and coordinated the founding conference of the Freedom Online Coalition in The Hague in December 2011, and advised the Kenyan government on the second Freedom Online event in Nairobi in 2012. Jochem represents the Dutch government in the EU, UN, OSCE and other multilateral fora, and oversees a project portfolio for promoting internet freedom globally.