[Privsec] Privacy COmmissioners Conference 9/2007: Good News for Civil Society

[Ralf Bendrath]

Especially see the second-to-last paragraph pasted below. This will 
certainly be another meeting opportunity for the recently-launched Dynamic 
Coalition on Privacy (more details on follow-up on this in the next few days).

Best, Ralf

http://ico.crl.uk.com/files/CCanada_E.pdf
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The 2007 Conference in Montreal

It gives us great pleasure to invite privacy professionals from around the 
world to the 29th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy 
Commissioners taking place in beautiful Montreal, from September 25 to 28, 
2007.

Our theme, Privacy Horizons: Terra Incognita, underscores the challenge 
for us as privacy guardians to tackle and predict the “unknowns” in our 
field. Technology and terrorism are transforming the world. Information 
outsourcing and the exponential growth of transborder data flows as well 
as illicit data trafficking have become commonplace. Terra Incognita is 
our chance to assess this shifting privacy landscape and to map out 
solutions to the emerging issues that trouble us as privacy professionals.

As a lead up to Terra Incognita, my provincial colleagues will be hosting 
three Pre-Conferences which enhance our program. Ontario Information and 
Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian will be exploring personal health 
information. British Columbia Information and Privacy Commissioner David 
Loukidelis and Alberta Information and Privacy Commissioner Frank Work 
will be looking at the Information Privacy Framework recently adopted by 
APEC Ministers. Meanwhile, Quebec’s President of the Commission d’accès à 
l’information Jacques St-Laurent will be examining data protection in La 
Francophonie.

In addition, the OPC will be providing assistance to the international NGO 
and Civil Society community to host their own conference prior to our 
event, and bring in participants from around the world to attend our 
conference. We invite our international colleagues to consider adding a 
representative from civil society to their own delegations, to help build 
a more representative conference.

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada looks forward to seeing 
the world’s privacy professionals in the fall of 2007 for what it hopes 
will be a memorable conference.