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