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

[karen banks]

hi ralf

i'll also make sure it's raised here in malta during the DIPLO conference..

karen

At 01:36 10/02/2006, Ralf Bendrath wrote:
>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
>
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