[Privsec] draft submission for IGF consultations - deadline today

[Robert Guerra]

Ralf:

I'll be at the Diplofoundation conference in Malta and try make sure to
raise the points you mention.

I'll also to send you my comments on your text later today.

regards

Robert

On 1/30/06, Ralf Bendrath <bendrath at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> attached find a draft I just wrote for our submission to the Internet
> Governance Forum consultations in two weeks. Please give feedback quicky,
> as the deadline is today (31st January).
>
> Again: Who will be there and raise this during the consultations?
> I probably can't go myself. I know Karen will be there, Rikke is still
> thinking. Anybody else? Daniel? Avri?
>
> Best, 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, it can 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, we can 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.
>
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>
> 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 <karenb at gn.apc.org>
>
>
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