[Chapter-delegates] Apologies for short notice : Urgent input sought regarding European IPR and privacy issues

[Anne Lord]

Dear Colleagues,

Please see the urgent message below from Cristine Runnegar.

All responses are welcome and should be forwarded directly to runnegar at isoc.org 
  by Friday 18th March for input regarding European privacy issues and  
the workshop and by Monday 21st March for input regarding the review  
of enforcement of intellectual property rights in Europe.

Many thanks,
Anne

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Dear Colleagues,

Apologies for the short notice.

[Europe and the review of Directive 95/46/EC]

(1) The Internet Society has been invited to participate in a "by  
invitation" only workshop on privacy in Copenhagen on 23 March 2011.  
As yet, we only have preliminary details concerning the workshop,  
however, we anticipate the workshop will address the following  
questions:

- Is there a need to supplement the classic privacy principles from  
the OECD, CoE and EU with new principles?
- Is data protection enough or should the legislative framework be  
more inclusive and address privacy in a broader sense?
- How do we empower citizens to be aware about privacy issues and deal  
with privacy issues in their everyday life?
- How do we strengthen the national Data Protection Authorities to  
give them better possibilities to ensure a cross-national coherent  
interpretation of the legislation?
- How can legislation be used to encourage the use of “privacy by  
design”, “privacy enhancing technologies” and “privacy impact  
assessment”?
- How do we create incentives among companies and in public  
administration to minimize the collection of personal data?

Further, it is our present understanding that the output of the  
workshop may be submitted to the European Commission for consideration  
in its review of the Directive.

We welcome your input regarding those questions for possible speaking  
points. Please send me your comments by Friday 18 March 2011, or  
earlier if possible.

[Europe and the review of Directive 2004/48/EC]

(2) The Internet Society is proposing to respond to the European  
Commission Consultation on the Commission Report on the enforcement of  
intellectual property rights (http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/consultations/2011/intellectual_property_rights_en.htm 
) which closes on 31 March 2011.

To help us build our response, we welcome your comments regarding the  
report by 21 March 2011, or earlier if possible.

Thank you very much,

Christine
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