[Privsec] our Privacy Panel at the Citizens' Summit

[Ralf Bendrath]

This is the current (and almost final) state of affairs. Hope to see many 
of you there! Infos on the exact location in Tunis and more details as 
soon as they are announced.
Oh, and there will be a party on the 18th. I am one of the DJs, it seems. :-)
Ralf

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Privacy in the Global Information Society
Threats, challenges and Strategies
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at the Citizens' Summit on the Information Society
Tunis, afternoon of 17th November 2005

organized by the
WSIS Civil Society Privacy and Security Working Group
together with
- Heinrich Böll Foundation, Germany
- Computer Professionals for Peace and Social Responsibility, Peru

The panel will provide a global overview of privacy threats, challenges
and strategies from different civil society perspectives. The presenters
come from diverse regions, background and disciplines. They range from
academics to grassroots activists, but they are together in the fight for
privacy and agains the surveillance society.

PANELISTS

Simon Davies, Privacy International, London
-> recent trends in privacy threats; the relation between the state, the
individual, and corporations

Cedric Laurant, Electronic Privacy Information Center, Washington DC
-> global overview of privacy threats and developments around the world;
regional spread and international level developments

Pedro Mendizábal, CPSR Peru, Lima
-> recent developments in privacy legislation, surveillance, and activism
in Latin America

Carlos Gregorio, Instituto de Investigación para la Justicia, Buenos Aires
-> the disclosure of judicial information in Latin America, and the need
for a balance among privacy, access to public information, and use of the
Internet to enhance freedom of speech

Alberto Escudero-Pascual, IT46, Sweden
-> privacy threats in Internet and communication technology: What do VoIP
(Skype, Vonage, etc.) and chat services tell us about the privacy impacts
of technical design?

Theeba Soundrarajan, Third World Majority, Oakland
-> how surveillance policies are connected with silencing and controlling
social movements, and what grassroots community work can do about it

Moderators:
Ralf Bendrath / Karen Banks, WSIS CS Privacy and Security Working Group


SPEAKERS INFORMATION

Simon Davies
Simon is founder and director of the global watchdog initiative Privacy
International, and also inventor of the Big Brother Awards, a prize now
given in over 15 countries each year to organizations and individuals who
commit particularly flagrant violations of the right to privacy. Davies is
also a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Information Systems of the
London School of Economics. He has been a consultant to numerous
government, professional and corporate bodies in Europe and North America.

Alberto Escudero-Pascual
Alberto got his PhD in December 2002 in the area of computer security and
privacy in the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). His
multidisciplinary contributions to the area of data protection in mobile
networks are common reference for regulators and policy makers. Since
2004, Escudero works as an independent consultant in IT+46. More info:
http://www.it46.se. Alberto became famous in the WSIS community for
hacking the RFID chips in the name badges at the Geneva summit.

Carlos Gregorio
Carlos is research director at the Instituto de Investigación para la
Justicia (Research Institute for Justice), based in Buenos Aires. He was
coordinator - during the recent last three years - of a project to create
awareness among Latin America and the Caribbean judicatures to protect
personal information in their websites. He has been consultant at the
Inter-American Children's Institute (OAS); the APC monitor project of
Internet Rights; and advisor to numerous government and development
institutions in Latin America, Africa and Europe.

Cédric Laurant
Cédric is the director of the International Privacy Project at the
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington DC. His recent
work has focused on radio frequency identification technologies (RFID),
the profiling of air travelers, video surveillance, the negotiation of the
APEC Privacy Framework, and governmental electronic surveillance and
transborder data flows. He is the editor of the "Privacy and Human Rights"
report, EPIC's international surveys of privacy laws and developments in
the world. He also is active in the Global Internet Liberty Campaign
(GILC) and the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD).

Pedro Mendizábal
Pedro is the President of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
(CPSR)-Peru, based in Lima. He recently was involved in a large research
project on the state of privacy in Latin America and in the launch of the
Spanish version of the 2005 Privacy and Human Rights Survey.

Theeba Soundrarajan
Theeba is the Technology Justice Director at Third World Majority.
Recently, she has been working on a security training initiative that
connects security and surveillance policies in the United States with
silencing and controlling social movements, and grassroots community work.