Public Voice Symposium

"Privacy in a New Era:
Challenges, Opportunities and Partnerships"
September 13, 2004
Wroclaw, Poland

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Program

[Final program - 8/26/2004]

08h30	Registration
09h00	Welcome
09h15	Opening Speech
	Ewa Kulesza, Inspector General for Personal Data Protection, Poland
09h30	Survey of 2004 Privacy Law and Development
	Around the world, countries are struggling with new privacy challenges. Questions arise such as how best to safeguard civil liberties while responding to the threat of terrorism? How to promote new electronic services in both the government and private sector and still safeguard privacy? How to ensure that technologies that are developed for narrow legal purposes do not become integrated systems of public surveillance? The release of the 2004 Privacy and Human Rights survey will provide an overview of the responses to these questions. - Moderator: Marc Rotenberg, EPIC, USA - Peter Hustinx, European Data Protection Supervisor - Cédric Laurant, EPIC, USA - Arwid Mednis, University of Warsaw, Poland - Bogdan Manolea, A.B.U.S.E. - Association for the Best Use of Electronic Services, Romania - Barry Steinhardt, American Civil Liberties Union, USA
11h30	Keynote speech
	Jennifer Stoddart, Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
12h00	Lunch
13h30	Best Practices for DPA's: The Citizens Perspective
	Data Protection Authorities safeguard critical rights in modern society. They help ensure that the basic dignity of the citizen is respected and that technology is not used to undermine democratic institutions. But DPA's have had varying success fulfilling their mandates. This panel explores the best practices for Data Protection Authorities with a particular emphasis on accountability, transparency, responsiveness, and innovation. - Moderator: Stephanie Perrin, EPIC, USA - Gus Hosein, Privacy International, UK - Karel Neuwirt, Czech Republic DPA, Czech Republic - Peter Schaar, Chair, Article 29 Working Group
15h00	Civil Society Collaborations and Regional Focus
	Civil society groups in Europe are playing an increasingly important role in the public debates over emerging privacy issues. Most recently, EDRi helped organize Europeans to safeguard travel information that was sought by United States law enforcement. This panel will discuss the tactics and strategies of Civil Society Organizations and the opportunities for future collaboration. Accession countries face unique privacy challenges. They must first comply with the requirements of the EU Data Protection Directive and establish the laws and institutions to ensure data protection for citizens in their regions. But they must also understand specific concerns of their citizens. These might include SMS spam, sale of citizen records to foreign governments, and the Cybercrime Convention. This panel will explore privacy issues of particular concern to Accession Countries. - Moderator: Ian Brown, EDRi - Andrzej Adamski, University of Nicolaus Copernicus, Torun, Poland - Alexander Kashumov, Access to Information Program, Bulgaria - Iván Székely, Open Society Archives at CEU, Hungary
16h15	Conclusions
	Marc Rotenberg, EPIC, USA
16h30	End