[e-privacy] Record mondiale di intercettazioni in Itala [Fwd: EDRI-gram newsletter]
marcoc1 at dada.it
marcoc1 at dada.it
Fri Jul 16 11:56:01 CEST 2004
Contrariamente alle mia abitudini, forwardo integralmente
un numero della famosa newsletter.
L'articolo di prima fa veramente venire un brivido; l'italia
ha il massimo numero di intercettazioni telefoniche e di altro
tipo (solo quelle ufficialmente note), pari a 0,7 per mille
intercettazioni l'anno per persona.
In pratica su mille persone una ogni anno e' sottoposta
ad intercettazione.
Tanto vale che scriviate direttamente qui ..... 8(
Ciao. Marco
P.S. chi non l'avesse fatto si abboni ad Edrigram
http://www.edri.org/cgi-bin/index?funktion=edrigram
e Cryptogram;
http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram.html
tre mail al mese e ne vale la pena.
Poi se Odo & C. lavorano, Edrigram esiste anche in italiano,
spero che questo numero arrivi per Natale ...... ;)
http://www.autistici.org/edrigram/
(scherzo, eh..... ?)
PP.SS. se un numero sufficente degli iscritti e' d'accordo,
si potrebbe chiedere di iscrivere la lista alle newsletter.
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EDRI-gram newsletter - Number 2.14, 15 July 2004
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EDRI-gram
biweekly newsletter about digital civil rights in Europe
Number 2.14, 15 July 2004
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Contents
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1. Italy and the Netherlands top wiretap chart
2. National parliaments challenge Council on software patents
3. Dutch parliament blocks patent vote
4. Opinion data protection authorities on PNR-transfer
5. Libre Software Meeting 2004 conference report
6. Nominations Big Brother Awards UK / Austria
7. German promise to adopt freedom of information law
8. Report about two copyright conferences
9. Court attacks Dutch internet anonymity
10. Recommended reading
11. Agenda
12. About
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1. Italy and the Netherlands top wiretap chart
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According to a report by the German Max Planck Institute for Foreign and
International Criminal Law, Italy and the Netherlands are the wiretap
champions of the Western world.
The report entitled 'Rechtswirklichkeit und Effizienz der Überwachung der
Telekommunikation' researches the legal and practical situation in Germany
regarding police wiretapping. The report also investigates the situation
in surrounding countries, notably in Western Europe and the Anglo-Saxon
countries.
The report concludes that Italy has the highest number of wiretaps per
capita, 72 per 100.000 inhabitants. The Netherlands follow closely on the
second place with 62 and Switzerland gets a third place with 32. Austria
has the lowest number in Western-Europe with 9 wiretaps per 100.000
inhabitants. The statistics show a remarkable low figure for the
Anglo-Saxon countries. The USA apply only 0,5 wiretaps for the given
number of inhabitants. The statistics would mean that Italy engages into
wiretapping about 140 times more often then the USA when compared to the
number of inhabitants. The report does not go into the use of wiretaps by
intelligences services and systems like Echelon.
The German report mentions an Italian 1992 law that allows wiretapping for
pro-active information gathering on organised crime by order of a
prosecutor. This law does not require a court approval. Under the law taps
can't be used as evidence but they may be used for the preparation of
cases. This might explain the high Italian statistics.
Research from the Dutch ministry of Justice shows that the 10.000 wiretaps
per year in the Netherlands rarely lead to evidence that can be used in
court. But wiretapping seems to be very heavily used as a tactical
instrument during police investigations. Wiretapping gives insight into
relations between suspects and their networks and is used as support for
surveillance teams, according to the report.
Rechtswirklichkeit und Effizienz der Überwachung der Telekommunikation
[..], Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law,
international statistics on page 104 (in German, June 2003)
http://www.iuscrim.mpg.de/verlag/online/Band_115.pdf
De telefoontap in grote opsporingsonderzoeken, WODC (in Dutch, June 2004)
http://www.ministerievanjustitie.nl/b_organ/wodc/publicaties/overige/pdf/jv0404bok.pdf
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2. National parliaments challenge Council on software patents
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Since the beginning of July, the European Parliament had two weeks to
group up fractions and build coalitions. A new pro-EU Centrist and Liberal
group has emerged, which will be the third strongest in the European
Parliament after the Conservatives and Social Democrats. Due to all the
political power game, there was not much time left to discuss digital
rights-related issues, even though important decisions were made about the
working agenda of the EU institutions for the next months.
The most interesting development was the widespread tendency with national
parliaments to make their governments step back from the decision taken on
18 May, adopting the Council Common Position on the patentability of
so-called computer-implemented inventions, more accurately known as the
the Software Patent Directive. Technically, amendments are still possible
to the position taken at that time, because the decision has not yet been
translated into all 20 official languages of the EU.
On 1 July, the Dutch Parliament took the so far unique move to make the
Minister of Economic Affairs change the five Dutch yes votes into an
abstention (see the article below). The withdrawal of these five Dutch
votes alone would note change much – it would take 37 no votes or
abstentions to block the decision, but only Spain, Austria, Italy and
Belgium, totalling 27 votes, have not approved the Common position. But
after what seems to have been a tour de force of getting hesitant
delegations to agree to the Council's decision on 18 May, other countries,
including Germany (10 votes), Poland (8 votes) and Denmark (3 votes) are
reiterating their votes on software patents also.
In Denmark, Parliament members claim their minister, who had shown some
reservations before, has been pressed into voting yes. The Polish
Representative, Mr Pietras of the Committee for European Integration,
wrote he was tricked into voting yes by a bogus claim that amendments made
up by Germany had reached a qualified majority even without Poland's
support. His intention, Pietras said, would have been to abstain. The
German delegation has also come under pressure from members of the
Bundestag, due to these same amendments, which were changed in the last
minute, as it seems. merely strategically without any real intention to
pass them, and contrary to the government's intention. If Poland or
Germany should change their vote, it would mean the Common Position would
have to be re-negotiated in the Council, with the probable result being a
more balanced approach, as compared to the present document.
A Common Position before a vote in the EU Parliament is, while by no means
a binding document, a very strong incentive for Parliamentarians to vote
the same way. It will also be the basis for so-called informal trilogue
meetings that will most certainly take place between Council
representatives and that Directive's Rapporteur, Mrs McCarthy (Labour,
Britain), in the months of September or October. The Council will then be
represented by its present Dutch Presidency.
EU Council of Ministers Scraps Parliament's Limits on Patentability
(18.05.2004)
http://kwiki.ffii.org/?Cons040518En
Europe's software patent policy under siege (07.07.2004)
http://www.iht.com/bin/print.php?file=528268.html
Pietras letter on Polish abstention (20.05.2004)
http://kwiki.ffii.org/?Pietras040520En
Wikipedia: Qualified Majority Voting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_Majority_Voting
(Contribution by Andreas Dietl, EDRI EU affairs director)
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3. Dutch parliament blocks patent vote
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On 1 July 2004 the Dutch Lower House adopted a motion directed at Minister
Brinkhorst and State Secretary Van Gennip (Economic Affairs) to withdraw
the Dutch vote in support of the Council of Ministers' text for the
Directive on Software Patents. It was quite a surprise the motion was
accepted.
In a letter to MPs, the State Secretary acknowledged that the Ministers
initial claim was false that the Dutch agreement with the proposal didn't
have any significant meaning. According to the Minister it was only a
hammer piece, without any significant difference from earlier proposals.
In the debate following the letter, on 24 June, the State Secretary got
away with the embarrassing excuse that 'an error was made in the
word-processor', somehow changing the crucial 'no' into 'yes!'.
Dutch MPs didn't accept these explanations, initiated a second debate and
took a historical step in sending the minister back to the Council with
the embarrassing mission of having to withdraw his agreement and convert
it into an abstention.
Many leading scientists, small and medium enterprises and concerned
citizens have objected against attempts to introduce broad patentability
of software in Europe. In September 2003, the European Parliament voted in
favour of numerous amendments that limited the patentability of logical
algorithms, but the Council of Ministers clearly ignored this wish and put
a new proposal on the table that was even worse than the original
proposal.
According to Van Uytvanck, spokesman of FFII Netherlands (the Foundation
for a Free Information Infrastructure), "this political signal reaches
much further than just The Netherlands. We hope that other European
countries that also have their doubts about the proposal of the Council
will also withdraw their support, so that the current proposal no longer
has a majority. The historic precedent has been set now."
Summary of the parliamentary debate (in Dutch, 01.07.2004)
http://www.ffii.be/kamerdebat3
Press release FFII Netherlands (01.07.2004)
http://kwiki.ffii.org/NlVote040701En
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4. Opinion data protection authorities on PNR-transfer
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The Article 29 Working Party that oversees the implementation of the EU
privacy directive has released its opinion on the current state of affairs
regarding the transfer of passenger data from EU airlines to the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security.
The Working Party notes that the Commission failed to take into account
previous demands by the Working Party before authorizing its transfer to
the U.S., particularly on the scope of the data, the retention period, and
the ways in which the data is used. As the European Parliament is pursuing
this case in the Courts, the Working Party is calling for some immediate
'essential' changes to the current practices to minimize the encroachments
on passengers' rights.
These 'essential' changes include:
1. Replacing U.S. Customs direct access to reservation systems with a
'push' system where carriers send only the required information to the
American authorities.
2. Better informing passengers regarding the treatment of their personal
information.
3. Reiterating that carriers are not required to collect additional data;
only to disclose data that they otherwise collect in the course of
business.
4. Moving forward on regular checks of the U.S. treatment of the data.
Surprisingly, the report has strong language regarding the Commission's
failure to adhere to the Working Party's guidance, but the Working Party's
call for action is very weak. The agreement between the European
Commission and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security fails on many data
protection grounds, and is a clear case of backroom politics, that the
European Parliament is trying to rectify. That the Working Party chose to
respond in this manner is disappointing.
Opinion Article 29 Working Party 6.2004 (22.06.2004)
http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/privacy/docs/wpdocs/2004/wp95en.pdf
A Failure to Negotiate: European Commission Sells Privacy Law to Lowest
Bidder
http://www.privacyinternational.org/issues/terrorism/rpt/inadequateadequacy.pdf
Transferring Privacy: The Transfer of Passenger Records and the Abdication
of Privacy Protection
http://www.privacyinternational.org/issues/terrorism/rpt/transferringprivacy.pdf
(Contribution by Gus Hosein, EDRI-member Privacy International)
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5. Libre Software Meeting 2004 conference report
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The LSM conference has become an institution in France and around the
globe. It all began in the year 2000 and has now become a well
established meeting place for members and friends of the Free Software
movement. Between 6-10 July 2004 about 700 persons gathered to discuss the
bright future for users of Libre Software.
There were many very different subjects to choose from, ranging from
accessibility to Content Management Systems, from law to music and other
arts and from public administration to corporate business solutions.
Another important topic was education. It has always been a very important
part of the 'Rencontre Mondial du Logiciel Libre/ LSM' both in numbers of
presentations and workshops and in numbers of participants. This year the
EDU-conference was integrated into the conference - mainly in the big
conference room. Some 50% of participants came from local French schools.
The Abul Edu program is highly popular in all French speaking countries
and offers a wide range of programs for learning, everything from spelling
to mathematics. This year there were also demonstrations of solutions from
Norwegian Skolelinux to LinEx in Extremadura, Spain and an Italian school
using the Knoppix distribution.
A free music concert was announced for next year's meeting. In music there
has been a lot of fun and progress. The music workshops wanted more
possibilities for inter-sector collaboration next year and everybody
agreed that the time was really ripe for this and promised to make
contacts between the 'string holders' for the different subjects for next
years conference.
In the law sessions a lot was said about how to handle violations of the
GPL and about trademark legislation. Under sessions for Libre Software for
the blind, GNOME and KDE agreed to use common user interfaces. They also
found that the speech synthesis program 'Festival' was the best choice to
elaborate on for the future.
The African delegates talked about sustainable development and announced a
'Free Software Day' during a conference from 28 September - 6 October
2004, with popular demonstrations of programs in a big party atmosphere.
The conference days offered a wide range of old and new topics and a
physical atmosphere of well being and possibilities to make contacts with
old and new friends. In the main lobby of the university of computer
science, ENSEIRB of Bordeaux there were stands for many French
organisations and LUG's. This turned the Agora into a lively bazar.
Next years conference will be held in Dijon.
Program overview (15.06.2004)
http://rencontresmondiales.org/article54.html
Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre (in French)
http://rencontresmondiales.org/
Presentations in the law track
http://www.foo.be/rmll2004/legal/
General information about the AbulEdu program (in French)
http://www.abuledu.org/
(Contribution by Anne Østergaard, member of the GNOME Foundation and the
GUADEC 5th Planning Committee, vice-chairman of IT-Politisk Forening,
www.it-pol.dk)
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6. Nominations Big Brother Awards UK / Austria
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On 28 July, Privacy International will celebrate the 6th annual UK Big
Brother Awards ceremony. From about 300 nominees a 'Dirty Dozen' was
selected for the shortlist. Award categories for this year are as they
have been in past years: Worst Public Servant; Most Invasive Company; Most
Appalling Project; Most Heinous Government Organisation and Lifetime
Menace (now renamed the 'David Blunkett Lifetime Menace Award').
The number of nominations for Home Secretary Blunkett, the Home Office and
the proposed National Identity Card far outweighed all other nominees, but
their unpopularity will not be recognised this year because they have
received awards in previous years. Among the favourites that are tipped to
win is the Rt Hon Margaret Hodge MP, Minister of State for Children for
Worst Public Servant. Hodge has received numerous nominations because of
her patronage of the controversial tracking provisions in the Children
Bill and for her determination to develop a wide spectrum of intrusive
databases and information systems.
British Gas is tipped to win the Most Invasive Company Award, for its
unfounded and cowardly claim that the Data Protection Act was the reason
why an elderly couple died after British Gas had disconnected their gas
supply. The hypothermia and absence of any duty of care apparently were
secondary factors. The NHS National Programme for IT could be the winner
of the Most Appalling Project Award, after already having won a Most
Heinous Government Organisation award in 2000 because of its plans to
computerise all patient records in a way that is both insecure and
dangerous to patient privacy. Its nomination again this year reflects the
gravity of concerns over these continuing plans.
Finally the Office of National Statistics risks winning the Most Heinous
Government Organisation award, for its development of the 'Citizen
Information Project' that will collate and share unprecedented amounts of
data on the entire population.
Commenting on the nominations, Simon Davies, Director of Privacy
International, said: "The nominations reflect a broad and intensified
assault on the right to privacy in the UK. There is a clear hostility
within government to privacy and a general antagonism to it from within
business. We have seen few instances where privacy has been genuinely
respected by large organisations."
On 26 October 2004, the Austrians will celebrate their 6th annual ceremony
as well. The call for nominations (in 5 categories, plus a positive price)
is open until 16 October 2004.
Shortlist for privacy 'Oscars' announced (05.07.2004)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/05/privacy_awards/
The 2004 UK Big Brother Awards
http://www.privacyinternational.org/bigbrother/uk2004/
Call for nominations for the Austrian Big Brother Awards
http://www.bigbrotherawards.at/2003/nominees/index.php
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7. German promise to adopt freedom of information law
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The German government is promising to finally implement a freedom of
information law, according to an article published in Berliner Zeitung
from 3 July 2004. After many years of debate within the red-green
coalition, a legal proposal will be sent to parliament (Bundestag) after
the summer break. Mrs Stokar, an MP for the Green party, is quoted to say
that the project could be finalised before the end of the year 2004. "We
wish to expand civil rights. That's why the decisions from the ministries
must become accessible."
The German e-zine Heise adds that a freedom of information law was already
announced in 1998, in the coalition agreement between the Social Democrat
Party (SPD) and the Greens. The project was stalled many times, until the
national ministry of internal affairs released a discussion draft in the
summer of 2001. The legal proposal was rejected in June 2002, according to
the Greens because of ministries led by social-democrats.
Germany and Switzerland are the only 2 major Western European member
states of the Council of Europe (45 countries) without such a law on
accessibility of governmental acts and decision making. Within the EU,
only Cyprus, Malta and Luxemburg lack this kind of legislation. And there
are a few still in SEE (Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia) and Belarus and
Russia (pending, also possible soon).
Though Dave Banisar from EDRI-member Privacy International is sceptical
about progress in Germany, overall he is positive. "Access to information
ebbs and flows in any country but the transformation has begun and it is
no longer possible to tell citizens that they have no right to know."
According to the excellent survey he updated in May 2004 "over fifty
countries have adopted comprehensive laws to facilitate access and over
thirty more are in the process. The laws are broadly similar, allowing for
a general right by citizens, residents and often anyone else to demand
information from government bodies. There are exemptions for withholding
critical information and appeals processes and oversight."
Buerger sollen Akteneinsicht erhalten (in German, 03.07.2004)
http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/politik/355256.html
Neuer Anlauf für Informationsfreiheitsgesetz (in German, 04.07.2004)
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/48846
Global survey freedom of information legislation (12.05.2004)
http://www.freedominfo.org/survey.htm
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8. Report about two copyright conferences
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The annual 'New Directions in Copyright' conference was held 29 and 30
June 2004 at University of London, organised jointly by the Arts and
Humanities Research Board and the Birckbeck School of Law. The focus was
on legal issues pertaining to recent developments in copyright. The flat
fee / compulsory licensing was under serious debate and also otherwise the
user rights-angle was prominently present. Especially Professor David
Vaver's 'User Rights vs. User Exceptions: Reconceptualising the Public
Domain' was a very strong presentation about the need to change the
language used in copyright debates. Another very interesting presentation
was given by Professor Peter Jaszi, who has been fighting for balanced
copyright long before the current generation of copyright fighters. He
showed how best practices can be used to shape fair use in his
presentation 'The Crisis in Fair Use and the Potential of a 'Best
Practices' Approach'. Professor Lisa Maruca's 'Cultures of Copying,
Cultures of Copyright: Academic Anxiety and the Plagiarism Panic' was also
fascinating and scary at the same time, because it demonstrated how
companies like TurnItIn can misuse other persons' copyrighted material to
fight overly broadly against plagiarism cases.
Earlier in June, the Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues
held its annual conference in Turin, Italy. The focus was (naturally) more
economic, although there were also some quite legally-focused
presentations. The hottest question was what kind of effects P2P-networks
have on music sales. This time professor Stan Liebowitz was ready to claim
that it was harming the industry, but some others did not agree. The only
general consensus was that there really are no reliable numbers or
statistics about P2P-usage. The most interesting keynote was given by
professor Paul David, who presented three scenarios in which copyright as
it was known before will die.
AHRB 'New directions in copyright' (29-30.06.2004)
http://www.copyright.bbk.ac.uk/contents/conferences/2004/2004conf.shtml
SERCI annual conference (8-9.06.2004)
http://www.serci.org/congress.html
(Contribution by Ville Oksanen, EDRI-member EFFI)
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9. Court attacks Dutch internet anonymity
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By verdict of 24 June 2004 the Appeals Court of Amsterdam in the
Netherlands has to a large extent limited the freedom of internet users to
express their opinion anonimously. The main issue in this principal case
was whether internet provider Lycos was required to hand over the personal
data of one of its subscribers to a third party. This third party, the
Dutch lawyer and stamp trader Pessers, claimed this subscriber had treated
him unlawfully. The appeal verdict largely confirms an ealier verdict by
a judge at the District Court of Haarlem on 11 September 2003, against
which Lycos appealed.
Mr Pessers trades in postage stamps on the auction portal eBay and was
accused of fraud by a Lycos subscriber, who published Mr Pesser’s name on
his website and provided an e-mail address for anyone to report fraudulent
incidents they felt Mr Pessers had committed. After complaints from Mr
Pessers, the site was removed and the text replaced with "Site removed to
avoid legal actions!!". Subsequently Pessers demanded the personal data
from the subscriber, but Lycos refused and was taken to court. After the
initial verdict, Lycos did hand over the data, but only to find out the
address data were false. Pessers started another procedure, to force Lycos
to find other ways to retrieve the correct information, but that demand
was declined on 1 April 2004. However, this case instigated a debate in
the Netherlands whether internet service providers should be obliged to
collect the correct information from their subscribers.
Although the Appeals Court acknowledges that the content on the website
was not 'apparent unlawful', the court nevertheless felt that Lycos was
required to hand over the data.
Explaining its ruling, the court said that it weighed the interest of the
ISP and its subscriber against that of the third-party (Pessers), and also
considered whether Pessers had a genuine interest in this information and
whether there were other, less-intrusive means of obtaining the
information.
"The consequence of this ruling is that ISPs will be less cautious about
providing third parties with personal details. After all, the provider can
be held liable," said internet lawyer Christiaan Alberdingk Thijm.
Perhaps even more disturbing, this ruling also increases the possibilities
for civil rightsholders, such as the music industry to demand personal
data from music-file downloaders.
Lycos vs. Pessers appeal verdict (in Dutch, 24.07.2004)
http://www.solv.nl/nieuws_docs/1057Hof%20Adam%20240604%20(Lycos-Pessers).pdf
Amsterdam Appeals Court upholds decision requiring ISP to disclose
personal data (12.07.2004)
http://www.dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=2295
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10. Recommended reading
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CELEX is the easiest way of accessing EU documents and is now freely
available for any user. The service was launched in 1980 and recently
merged with other sources into EUR-Lex, a portal offering integrated
access to various EU archives, repositories and databases. Within the
framework of this integrated legal information portal, CELEX remains a key
product offering advanced search capabilities and features.
Free access to CELEX
http://europa.eu.int/celex/
Username: enlu0000
Password: europe
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11. Agenda
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19-23 July 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Workshop on the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS): Issues of
Relevance to ICANN and Next Steps. All individuals interested in the
Internet and management and co-ordination of the domain name system (DNS)
are encouraged to attend the Workshop, which will provide information on
the United Nation's WSIS process and issues of direct impact to ICANN.
Proposed output and next steps for ICANN constituencies / stakeholders
regarding WSIS and technical co-ordination and management of the DNS also
will be discussed.
http://www.icann.org/meetings/kualalumpur/
28 July 2004, London, UK
6th annual Big Brother Awards ceremony organised by Privacy International
http://www.privacyinternational.org/bigbrother/uk2004/
31 August 2004, Deadline for submissions Council of Europe
Public consultation on future Council of Europe activities in the media
field, in preparation of the 7th European Ministerial Conference on Mass
Media Policy (Kiev, 10-11 March 2005). The main topics of the Conference
will be: freedom of expression and information in times of crisis;
cultural diversity and media pluralism in times of globalisation and human
rights and regulation of the media and new communication services in the
information society.
The CDMM would like to invite non-governmental organisations working in
the media field in Europe and other interested persons to submit their
ideas and proposals as regards these future activities. The proposals
should not exceed 2 pages and should be sent to the Media Division, in
English or French, by 31 August 2004 (mailto:media at coe.int). They will be
analysed at a meeting of the Bureau of the CDMM on 7-8 September 2004. The
results will be subsequently reviewed by the CDMM on 2-5 November 2004.
Call for submissions
http://www.coe.int/T/E/human_rights/media/7_Links/consultation_announcement_E.asp
10-11 September 2004, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
'Guaranteeing Media Freedom on the Internet'
Two day conference organised by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the
Media in the Amsterdam city hall.
http://www.osce.org/events/
13-14 September 2004, Geneva, Switzerland
The TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) will host a two-day meeting in
Geneva on the Future of WIPO. The meeting will bring together leading
experts and stakeholders from academia, industry, NGOs, and governments,
as well as members of the WIPO secretariat, to discuss the future of this
United Nations Agency. To register for this event (no fee), contact:
Ben Wallis, Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue Co-ordinator, Consumers
International
mailto:bwallis at consint.org
14-16 September 2004, Wroclaw, Poland
The 26th International Conference on privacy and personal data protection:
'the Right to Privacy - the Right to Dignity'. This annual gathering of
the world's data protection commissioners will be preceded on 13 June by a
publicly accessible conference organised by EPIC, Privacy International
and EDRI.
http://www.giodo.gov.pl/168/id_art/175/j/en/
15-17 September 2004, Strasbourg, France
The Council of Europe is planning a major international conference on "The
Challenge of Cybercrime", which will bring together senior politicians,
computer industry leaders and experts from around the world. No online
information yet.
29-30 September 2004, Paris, France
5th Worldwide forum on electronic democracy, organised by Mr André
Santini, French Member of Parliament and president of the Global Cities
dialogue
http://www.issy.com/statiques/e-democratie/index_EN.htm
30 September-3 October 2004, Berlin, Germany
New EDRI-member FIfF is organising its 20th annual meeting on critical
computer science in the Humboldt university.
http://www.fiff.de/aktuelles/
16 October 2004, Lucerne, Switzerland
Swiss Big Brother Awards
http://www.bigbrotherawards.ch
26 October 2004, Vienna, Austria
Austrian Big Brother Awards
http://www.bigbrotherawards.at
29 October 2004, Bielefeld, Germany
German Big Brother Awards
http://www.bigbrotherawards.de
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