We already wrote about how US Secretary of State John Kerry made some tone deaf remarks about „online freedom“ and transparency during his appearance at the Freedom Online Coalition meeting in Estonia last week. However, it appears that his remarks fit in well with the theme of the event, which appeared to be „big governments ignoring that whole state surveillance online thing.“ The Freedom Online Coalition is a group of 23 governments, including the US, UK, Canada, Germany, France and many others — and you‘d think they‘d pay some attention to the very vocal concerns about how those governments are engaged in lots of online spying. In fact, a bunch of public interest groups sent a letter asking the FOC to live up to their state commitments, and respond to claims of human rights violations against journalists and others via state surveillance online.