SV: [Privsec] Privacy will be discussed at Internet Governance Forum

[Ralf Bendrath]

Robin Gross wrote:
> I had to argue hard to get that phrase "while respecting privacy" back
> into the topic at all.
First of all: Thanks for that!!!
And welcome Robin as a new member of our group!

> And it isn't for sure that it will be there in the final "security"
> formulation.
Who's doing the final editing?

> It was controversial, so now Kofi Annan is supposed to pick between the
> "security" sub-topics
I see. My impression when reading it was that the three subtopics will all
be discussed.

> privacy may not even be there at all.  "Security" might just focus on 
> spam, virus, phishing.  Its in the Secretary-General's hands now.
Well, I still think that re-focusing our lobbying might bring in some
privacy aspects here. After all, it is heavily related to spam and phishing.

>> and workshops with people from technologies, isp, cert,
>> law-enforcement and human rights
The fact that "human rights" are mentioned here also made me think we can
ensure privacy will be discussed here.

In general, no matter what Kofi Annan picks in the end, the concrete
format of the discussions and workshops will be decided by others:

>> workshops by: ITU (cybersecurity), OECD (spam toolkit)
We have to work with those now, that was my point. And there are already
some contacts to both organizations. Remember that we got a panel slot at 
the ITU cybersecurity workshop two weeks ago, and there are also some good 
people inside OECD.

So: It seems there is no reason for being really happy, but also no reason 
to totally give up trying here.

Best, Ralf