EPIC Hosts Annual Privacy Coalition Summit

The Privacy Coalition's annual meeting took place in Washington, DC on January 20-22. Over 30 state and national organizations comprised of privacy, civil rights and civil liberties experts gathered to assess the impact of emerging technology on privacy, government policy, and business activity over the past year. The group also assessed the privacy climate for 2005.

Panel discussions covered a wide range of challenges to civil liberties, consumer rights, new technology and international developments in privacy policy. .

The meeting was an opportunity for privacy experts specializing in a wide range of areas to teach and learn from each other in an intense mini-course environment. Those invited to join this annual gathering are experts in their fields, which makes the summit unique and a highly valued experience.

TIC á l'Université de Montreal

La Chaire L. R. Wilson est intégrée au Centre de recherche en droit public de l'Université de Montréal qui fêtait ses 40 ans en 2002. Depuis plus de 20 ans, le droit des technologies de l'information constitue un axe de recherche majeur pour le CRDP. En créant une telle chaire, la Faculté de droit et le CRDP souhaitent renforcer le noyau d'excellence constitué par les chercheurs gravitant autour de cet axe.

Dans la web de publications on peut telecharger des rapports sur le droit et biotechnologie, droit et TIC.

Vraiment interessant c' est le project sur la protection des données dans les bio-banques

e-Privacy

Tom Cooper is a Manager in PricewaterhouseCoopers' Global Risk Management Solutions practice in London. He published this paper about "e-Privacy: the Key to Building Trust and Value On-Line".

Relationships between business and consumers are changing. Consumers expect socially responsible behaviour, and they expect businesses to be transparent and accountable in their dealings with them. It is clear that such considerations increasingly influence where consumers shop, what they buy, and which brands they trust.

And you can take a look at this book Building Public Trust:

The Economic value of Trust

Today's technologies provide companies with unprecedented access to customer information—and raise serious concerns about privacy. By taking a deliberate approach to building customer trust, a business can turn the privacy challenge into a significant competitive advantage.You can download a report of The Economic value of Trust by Accenture.

Virtual Enterprise Networks

The Virtual Enterprise networks (VEN) can be described as an opportunistic temporary alliance of separate, independent pre-existing enterprises that come together in a tight, integrated ad hoc network to share skills/competencies/resources and whose cooperation is supported by computer networks.

In a VEN, trust is a crucial issue.

For further information you can read:

“Virtual Enterprise Networks in Europe - Economic Opportunities and Legal Challenges” by Juergen Noll, University of Vienna

And Yorkshire Forward’s Virtual Enterprise Networks

EPIC's Special Alert reviews the top privacy stories of 2004

EPIC Electronic Privacy Information Center presents privacy year in review, issues to Watch:The USA PATRIOT Act, California's privacy reforms, Data outsourcing, National ID, Internet privacy. EPIC's Special Alert reviews the top privacy stories of 2004 and shows you the trends to keep an eye on in 2005.

1. National ID

2. USA PATRIOT Act Renewal

3. Telemarketers Attack Privacy Rules

4. Google Tracks Reading?

5. VOIP

6. Smart Barcodes, RFID, and Products that Spy

7. Internet Privacy

8. Outsourcing

9. Centralized Voter Registration Databases

The right to privacy

In this historical paper “The Right to Privacy” published in Harvard Law Review by Warren and Brandeis in 1890, we can find the privacy "roots".

Ciphire Mail

In technology review there is an article about Ciphire Mail, a privately held company based Zurich financed by business angels who support the company's vision that privacy and identity protection are rights that should be protected in a civil society, hopes to change all that with a new approach to thwart the nasties.

Ciphire Mail is an email encryption tool. It works in conjunction with your existing email client. Ciphire Mail operates seamlessly in the background and does not interfere with normal emailing routines. It encrypts and decrypts email messages, and can digitally sign each message to provide authentication and guard against identity theft. Ciphire Mail is the first out-of-the box solution to match power with ease of use

You can donwload Ciphire Mail for free.

Privacy in the UK

The Department of Trade and Industry of UK has a website to create the best environment for business success in the UK.

There is a report about technology and law in UK, issues such as information security; data protection; hacking; viruses; how to comply with the law.

There is more information about privacy at Businesslink and they help you to understand data protection and privacy in marketing.

And you can see, also the Information Commissioner's Office Web Site who enforces and oversees the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) and the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOI) in the UK.

New standard clauses for data transfers to non-EU countries

The European Commission has approved a new set of standard contractual clauses which businesses can use to ensure adequate safeguards when personal data is transferred from the EU to non-EU countries. The new clauses, submitted by a business coalition, will be added to those already available under the Commission’s June 2001 decision see IP/01/851. Use of standard contractual clauses offers companies and other organisations a straightforward means of complying with their obligation, under the 1995 EU Data Protection Directive, to ensure "adequate protection" for personal data transferred outside the EU.

CRID

Le Centre de Recherches Informatique et Droit (CRID)á Namur dans le FUNDP. Travaille dans la recherche dans les domanines suivants : Commerce électronique/ Propriété intellectuelle/ Convergence Droit Technologie/ Télécom/ Vie privée.

Le CRID né en 1979 est dirige par le professeur Yves Poullet

Vous pouvez telecharger le rapport 1998-2002.

El CRID (Centre de Recherches Informatique et Droit) es un Centro de Investigación perteneciente a la FUNDP, una unversidad jesuita ubicada en Namur (Bélgica). Llevan desde el año 1979, siendo unos pioneros en la investigación del derecho informático/derecho TIC, y está dirigido por el profesor Yves Poullet.

CRID (Centre de Recherches Informatique et Droit) is a Research department of FUNDP (University of namur) Belgium.

Since 1979 they work in privacy issues, telecom, e-commerce, data protection, IP law. Remember for example that the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology was founded in 1995

CASPIAN

CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering) is a web where you can find futher information about privacy and RFID and they believe the public has an absolute right to know when they are interacting with technology that could affect their health and privacy.

You can see images of RFID tags. As you can see RFID tags have differente sizes and shapes.

They work also in privacy issues in Discount Cards and loyalty programs.

And the dilemma is:

share your information with a company to improve your shopping experience or it's better to limit the amount of data they have on you

Discount cards have pros, cons

Data Mining et Privacité

DROIT-TIC, c'est un page web sur le Droit des Nouvelles Technologies, vous pouvez lire articles et travailles sur Propieté Intellectuel.

Dans la page web on peut telecharger l'article

LE DATA MINING : ASPECTS JURIDIQUES DE L'INTELLIGENCE ARTIFICIELLE AU REGARD DE LA PROTECTION DES DONNEES PERSONNELLES

par Sulliman Omarjee