'State surveillance after September 11:
Asia-Pacific examples and reactions'

Session 1

New moves in communications surveillance: Telcomms and Internet

Echelon - New interception laws - Log retention by ISPs - 'Total Information Awareness'

Chair:

Speakers:

Nigel Waters

Mr Nicky Hager, Investigative journalist, New Zealand
- Echelon in the Asia-Pacific: A Guided Tour [PPT- very large 32Mb]

Mr Cédric Laurant, Policy Counsel
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), USA
- National security and privacy protection: global tensions

Ms Irene Graham, Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA)
- Silent numbers, CLI, carriers and ISPs

Session 2  

Spam control: Opportunities and dangers

Australian and overseas laws - alternatives ISP roles - privacy and free speech

Chair:

Speakers:

Panelists:

David Vaile

Mr Lindsay Barton, National Office for the Information Economy (NOIE)
- Australia's progress on laws to control SPAM
- Australia slams the door on spam (Minster's media release, 18 Sept.) [HTML]

Dr Jason Catlett, Junkbusters, USA

Ms Irene Graham, Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA)

Ms Jodie Sangster, Australian Direct Marketing Association (ADMA)

Mr Troy Rollo, About CAUBE.AU
(Coalition Against Unsolicited Bulk Email, Australia)

(see also from Day 2: Dr. Hyu Bong Chung
Korean Information Security Agency (KISA), Korea, Antispam regulation in Korea [DOC])

Session 3

Authentication and identification: New paradigms

Distributed ID paradigms - smart ID cards - ID theft - biometrics - surveillance in public places

Chair: 

Speakers:

Panelists:

Roger Clarke - Authentication Fundamentals [HTML] [PPT]

Chris Connolly, Financial Services Consumer Policy Centre, UNSW
Distributed identity paradigms: new dangers [PDF]

Prof. Natsui Takato, Mejei University, Japan
- Smart ID and Privacy in Japan [PDF]
- RFID - Legal problems in Japan [PDF]

Dr Roger Clarke, Visiting Professor, UNSW Law
- Why biometrics must be banned [HTML] [PPT]

Prof. Graham Greenleaf, UNSW, Australia

Nigel Waters, former Deputy Privacy Commissioner, Australia

Prof. James Rule, State University of New York, USA

Nicky Hager, Investigative journalist, New Zealand

Mr Tim McBride privacy law advocate,
author, commentator, lecturer, New Zealand

Session 4 

The APEC Privacy Principles: Are regional governments abandoning high standards?

Who runs APEC? - OECD Lite? - competing APT standards - free trade agreements - adequacy? - regional data exports

Chair:

Speakers:

Panelists:

Tim Dixon

Prof Graham Greenleaf, UNSW, Australia
- APEC vs Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (APT)?:
  The struggle for regional privacy standards

Mr Cédric Laurant, Policy Counsel
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), USA

Ms Stephanie Perrin, CEO, Digital Discretion, Canada

Other panelists drawn from the day's speakers.

What use are Privacy Commissioners?:
A critical reassessment after 30 years

Session 1

Commissioners' roles in confronting powerful interests: Duck and cover?

Do they stop new surveillance systems? - legitimate them? - who is their constituency?

Chair:

Speaker:

Panelists:

James Rule

Prof. David Flaherty, former Information and Privacy Commissioner of
British Columbia, Canada

Ms Stephanie Perrin
CEO, Digital Discretion, Canada

Mr Chris Puplick
former NSW Privacy Commissioner

Mr Nigel Waters
former Deputy Privacy Commissioner, Australia

Mr Tim McBride
Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Session 2 

Remedies: Does anyone ever get them?

Who gets damages? - do they stop practices? - are parties satisfied?

Chair: 

Speakers:

Panelists:

Graham Greenleaf

Associate Prof. Paul Roth
University of Otago, New Zealand
- Remedies and Process under the Privacy Act 1993 [DOC] Summary [DOC]
(a chapter in a book to celebrate Bruce Slane's 10 years as NZ's first Privacy Commissioner)

Bruce Slane
Privacy Commissioner, New Zealand

Dr. Hyu Bong Chung
Korean Information Security Agency (KISA), Korea
- Personal Information Protection in Korea [DOC]
- Anti-spam regulation in Korea [DOC]

Dr Lee Bygrave
Associate Professor, Norwegian Research Centre for Computers and the Law,
University of Oslo, Norway

Session 3

Black holes of privacy: Complaints go in, but does law ever come out?

Reporting practices - appeal rights - what law do they apply? - are Courts important?

Chair:  

Speakers:

Panelists:

Blair Stewart

Dr Lee Bygrave, Associate Professor, Norwegian Research Centre
for Computers and the Law, University of Oslo, Norway

Prof. Graham Greenleaf
University of New South Wales, Australia
- Reporting, Remedies [DOC] [PPT]

Ms Katrine Evans
Senior Lecturer in Law, Victoria University,
Wellington, New Zealand

Ms Stephanie Perrin
CEO, Digital Discretion, Canada

Prof. David Flaherty
former Information and Privacy Commissioner of British Columbia, Canada

Session 4

Looking ahead: How do we make privacy laws work?

Bypassing Commissioners - making them work - representative complaints - do we need Commissioners?

Chair:

Speakers:

Panelists:

Lee Bygrave

Prof. Charles Raab,
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- What use are Privacy Commissioners? [PPT]

Chris Connolly
Financial Services Consumer Policy Centre, UNSW
- Representative complaints - a new approach to making privacy laws work for consumers [PDF]

Mr Blair Stewart
Assistant Privacy Commissioner, New Zealand

Prof. James Rule
State University of New York, USA

Dr. Hyu Bong Chung
Korean Information Security Agency (KISA), Korea

Mr Cédric Laurant, Policy Counsel
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), USA