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Subject: FW: World Privacy Commissioners pass important resolution
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 17:49:46 -0400
From: Stanley, Jay <JStanley@private>
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@private>
Declan,
Barry Steinhardt has just reported breaking news to us from Montreux
that the world's privacy commissioners have passed an important
Delcaration that might be of interest to Politech.
Among other things, they call for:
* the spread of universal privacy principles around the world,
including through the U.N.
* cooperation with NGOs around the world
* for intergovernmental organizations (like ICAO, creator of the
biometric/RFID passport standard) to comply with such principles and to
appoint privacy officers
They also passed a separate resolution on biometric identity documents.
Although the U.S. lacks a privacy commissioner or its equivalent, nearly
every other industrialized nation has one, and in many countries they
possess significant power. At a time when we are seeing the increased
internationalization of many anti-privacy policies through what we call
"policy laundering," this is a significant step.
Their press release and the documents are online at
http://www.edsb.ch/e/aktuell/index.htm. We've also posted them at
http://www.policylaundering.org.
Best,
Jay Stanley
Communications Director, Technology and Liberty Program
American Civil Liberties Union
202-715-0818
www.aclu.org/privacy
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