Regulatory Calls for Participation

Current Regulatory Related Calls For Participation (Consider making this section a Live list on a wiki)

• FTC Roundtable (2009-2010) - The US Federal Trade Commission in the US has recently been hosting a series of day-long public roundtable discussions to explore the privacy challenges posed by the vast array of 21st century technology and business practices that collect and use consumer data. Such practices include social networking, cloud computing, online behavioural advertising, mobile marketing, the collection and use of information by retailers, data brokers, third-party applications, and other diverse businesses. The goal of the roundtables is to determine how best to protect consumer privacy while supporting beneficial uses of the information and technological innovation.
• European Commission: Public Consultation on Privacy (2009-2010) The European Union is based on the respect for fundamental rights. Article 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union expressly recognises the fundamental right to the protection of personal data. In order to remove potential obstacles to the flows of Personal Data and to ensure a high level of protection within the EU, data protection legislation has been harmonised. The Commission also engages in dialogue with non-EU/EEA countries so as to achieve a high level of protection of individuals when exporting personal data to those countries. It also initiates studies on the development at European and international level on the state of data protection and negotiates international agreements to safeguard the rights of individuals where their personal data are transferred (shared) to (with) third countries for law enforcement purposes, such as the fight against terrorism and serious crime. (European Commission, 2010b)
• OECD Roundtables (2010) - Organisation for the Economic Co-operation and development - "2010 is an important year for privacy, as the OECD marks the 30th anniversary of its Guidelines on the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data. The Guidelines were the first international statement of the core information privacy principles and have proven highly influential over the years, serving as the basis for national and international privacy instruments. Several events have been planned for 2010, beginning with an OECD Roundtable on the impact of the Privacy Guidelines, which took place on 10 March. The keynote speaker for the event was the Honourable Michael Kirby, who chaired the OECD expert group that developed the Guidelines in 1980. Justice Kirby spoke of context in which the Guidelines were conceived, their strengths and enduring value, and their future. Justice Kirby was then joined by the former Vice-Chair of the expert group, Louis Joinet, and the former Head of the ICCP Division, Hanspeter Gassmann, who recalled the experience of drafting the Guidelines."
• EU-US Consultation: (2010) Consultation on the future EU-US international agreement on personal data protection and information sharing for law enforcement purposes (http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/news/consulting_public/0005/consultation_questionaire_en.pdf and http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/news/consulting_public/0005/registered_organisations/european_privacy_association_registered_en.pdf)
• National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace http://www.nstic.ideascale.com/ The Whitehouse and DHS have recently promulgated the National Strategy for Trusted Identity in Cyberspace (NSTIC) in late June, and public comments are due by July 19th. The NSTIC outlines an ambitious identity management strategy for the United States, but public discussion has been extremely limited. The NSTIC is a very significant and policy document which may have an impact on Internet commerce, online speech, identity management, identity trust frameworks, and online anonymity. We (the Liberty Coalition, eCitizen Foundation, CDT, and others) are concerned that no meaningful public discussion has occurred. (Email from Aaron)
•  The UK Ministry of Justice has issued a call for evidence on current data protection laws, seeking views on:

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