International Conference on Business, Law and Tecnology Issues (IBLT)

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The International Conference on Business, Law and Technology (IBLT) will be held on December 5-7, 2006 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The Conference welcomes all scholastic researches addressing current and emerging trends in business, law and technology.

The conference committee is seeking submissions of papers for oral presentations. All accepted papers will be published in the book, Business, Law and Technology: Current Trends and Challenges (ISBN 87-991385-0-6 and ISBN 87-991385-1-4) and nominated to 9 international journals. Submission Deadline: October 20, 2006

Further details about the conference is available at www.iblt.eu

Ireland to reform libel laws

Guardian Unlimited publishs today the irish project to reform the privacy law: "Ireland to reform libel laws" by Lisa O'Carroll

Sweeping reforms to defamation legislation and the creation of a new privacy law that could have far-reaching implications for UK newspapers were announced last night in Ireland.

A new press council, which will have statutory powers, will also be established by the Irish government, despite advice from the UK Press Complaints Commission that this would stifle press freedom.

Read more at: Guardian Unlimited

Commission opens online public consultation on RFID

European Commission Press Release

An online public consultation on how the European Commission can help to ensure that the growing use of radio frequency identification devices (RFID) boosts the competitiveness of the Europe's economy and improves the quality of life of its citizens, whilst safeguarding their basic rights, and in particular their privacy, was launched today on the ‘Your Voice in Europe’ website.

PI launched a campaign against the illegal actions of SWIFT

Privacy International (PI) has launched a campaign against the illegal actions of SWIFT in its transfer of financial transactional data to the U.S. Government. This campaign will be launched in 33 countries.

Privacy International allege that the activity was undertaken without regard to legal process under European Data Protection law, and that the disclosures were made without any legal basis or authority whatever. The scale of the operation, involving millions of records, places this disclosure in the realm of a fishing exercise rather than legally authorised investigation.

The general complaint text can be seen at Privacy International.org.

USA: Call for Federal Privacy Law

Source EPIC news

On June 16, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) announced plans to introduce comprehensive privacy legislation. At a meeting of the American Constitution Society, Clinton called for a "Privacy Bill of Rights" that would create privacy protections in the private sector .... (read full article at epic.org).