[Privsec] Reply from EPIC on "Global Privacy Forum" proposal

[Ralf Bendrath]

EPIC is also very interested and wants to be involved in this, see below.

I think now it is important that our members who will be in Geneva next 
week (Rikke, Karen, Avri) make a strong point and at least make the idea 
stick and generate a discussion around this. We don't need (and won't get) 
approval at first sight, just a discussion that stays on. ;-)

Ralf

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: "Global Privacy Forum" proposal as WSIS follow-up - please 
support
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 18:50:06 -0500
From: Marc Rotenberg <rotenberg at epic.org>
To: bendrath at zedat.fu-berlin.de
CC: Cedric Laurant <chlaurant at epic.org>
References: <43EA7CC2.8090207 at zedat.fu-berlin.de>

Ralf -

This is an excellent idea, but it should go forward in
collaboration with EPIC.

A few notes:

  - The ICCPDP will not be held in Argentina this year.

  - EPIC is hosting the "Berlin group" (the International Working Group
    on Privacy and Telecommunications) this April in Washington, DC.

  - EPIC is also working with the Article 29 WG on a joint
    event next year

  - The annual Privacy and Human Rights reports speaks
    emphatically to the urgency of this issue. The Privacy Law
    Sourcebook also includes many of the key international
    instruments, including Art. 12 of the UDHR.

Regards,

Marc Rotenberg