SV: [Privsec] draft submission for IGF consultations - feedback needed, will send on Monday

[Ralf Bendrath]

Rikke Frank Joergensen wrote:
> I think the text is fine for this first meeting, where the main focus
> will be modalities of the forum, as far as I understand. The Danish
> WSIS group has asked me to participate, and I probably will. I guess
> Karen will be there as well, so we will have some channels to raise the
> points mentioned below.
Great to hear you're also going!

> Should we add a reference to the OECD privacy guidelines in the text,
> they are after all one of the more important international
> standards-setting documents?
I would avoid that. They are not binding, that is why the DP commissioners 
(and we also in the statement) ask for drafting of a _legal_ framework. 
And we don't mention any texts besides WSIS outcomes and the UDHR. OECD is 
already mentioned in the list of important actors to involve.

I will send the submission in about two to three hours if nobody objects 
to this. Please circulate widely, especially among friendly governments 
and international organization people.

Ralf

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> Rikke
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> [mailto:privsec-bounces at wsis-cs.org] På vegne af Ralf Bendrath Sendt:
> 4. februar 2006 17:55 Til: WSIS Privacy&Security WG Emne: [Privsec]
> draft submission for IGF consultations - feedback needed, will send on
> Monday
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> as I got no feedback to the draft submission to the IGF consultations,
> I this is a last reminder. I am flying to Canada on Tuesday and will be
> busy for the rest of the week, therefore I plan to submit the text on
> Monday.
> 
> Below you find the (corrected) text again. Please give feedback until 
> Monday evening.
> 
> Ralf
> 
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> 
> WSIS Civil Society Privacy and Security Working Group
> 
> 31 January 2006
> 
> A Global Privacy Forum for a Global Privacy Protection Framework
> 
> Submission to the Internet Governance Forum Consultations
> 
> As more and more social interaction - be it for business, culture, 
> leisure, or political activities - takes place online, we leave more
> and more electronic traces. Every transaction, every communication,
> every movement we make on the Internet has the form of data flows. This
> is why the technical structures of the Internet as well as its
> governance have to be designed in a privacy-enhancing way. Only if
> everyone can use the Internet freely without fear of constant
> observation, recording and monitoring, can it become an infrastructure
> that leads to a "people-centred, inclusive and development-oriented
> Information Society" that we all envision as the overarching goal of
> the WSIS and its follow-up. Only then can we make sure that Article 12
> of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is fully upheld and
> respected as the most important international human rights standard
> with regards to privacy.
> 
> We reiterate that paragraph 46 the Tunis Agenda calls "upon all 
> stakeholders to ensure respect for privacy and the protection of
> personal information and data, whether via adoption of legislation, the
>  implementation of collaborative frameworks, best practices and 
> self-regulatory and technological measures by business and users."
> 
> While self-regulatory and technological measures are important, there 
> needs to be an internationally agreed and binding framework for privacy
>  protection to make sure all measures are substantially coherent and do
> not lead to unnecessary conflicts and overlap of national and
> international legal and other measures. A global privacy framework is a
> natural consequence of the global Internet. This also echoes paragraph
> 3 of the Tunis Commitment that aims at strengthening "respect for the
> rule of law in international as in national affairs".
> 
> Last year, the world's data protection and privacy commissioners
> reached the same conclusion. We join them in their Montreux Declaration
> appealing "to the United Nations to prepare a legal binding instrument
> which clearly sets out in detail the rights to data protection and
> privacy as enforceable human rights."
> 
> We therefore encourage the conveners of the Internet Governance Forum
> to work for an international legal framework that ensures the rights to
>  privacy and data protection for all citizens within the Information 
> Society. This echoes commitments taken by the Iberoamerican summit of 
> Santa Cruz in 2003, the summit of Countries that share French language
> of Ouagadougou in 2004, and the Declaration on Human Rights and the
> Rule of Law in the Information Society adopted by the Council of Europe
> in 2005.
> 
> More specifically, we support the suggestion of the International
> Working Group on Data Protection in Telecommunications, calling for a
> global Privacy Forum as a result of the WSIS Summit. It is important
> now to seriously follow up on this and establish a Global Privacy Forum
> - as part of the Internet Governance Forum - to start working on a
> substantial global privacy protection framework.
> 
> In order to engage all important stakeholders, we strongly suggest 
> actively inviting and including the global network of data protection 
> commissioners and professionals. Important bodies and venues for this
> would be - the annual global data protection commissioners' conference,
> of which the next will be hosted by the government of Argentina in
> November 2006; - the International Working Group on Data Protection in
> Telecommunications (the "Berlin Group") - the network of civil society
> privacy organizations that has mainly evolved around  Privacy
> International (PI), the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC),
> and European Digital Rights (EDRi); - the International Association of
> Privacy Professionals (IAPP); - specialized working groups of several
> international organizations, including OECD, APEC, the Council of
> Europe, and the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights.
> 
> We are more than willing to offer any help in organizing and
> facilitating such a Global Privacy Forum and other related activities
> as part of the Internet Governance Forum.
> 
> ----------------------
> 
> The WSIS Civil Society Privacy and Security Working Group was
> established in February 2003 and has constantly been involved in the
> WSIS process since then. It has more than 30 members from a range of
> organizations in the privacy and security field all over the world.
> 
> Contact: Ralf Bendrath <bendrath at zedat.fu-berlin.de> Karen Banks
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