8 September 2005, Brussels, Belgium
EuroSOCAP Workshop on confidentiality and privacy in healthcare
3 year programme to develop new ethical standards for privacy and patient access to (electronical) files, started on 31 January 2003.
http://www.eurosocap.org/eurosocap-workshop.aspx
12-13 September 2005, Strasbourg, France
CoE Pan-European Forum on Human Rights in the Information Society
http://www.coe.int/T/E/human_rights/media/
13 September 2005, Montreux, Switzerland
Strategies for International Privacy Protection: Issues, Actors, and Future cooperation, event on data retention and biometrics, organised by EDRi and a number of other NGOs defending digital rights.
http://www.edri.org/panels
14-16 September 2005, Montreux, Switzerland
27th World Conference of Data Protection Commissioners
http://www.privacyconference2005.org
19-30 September 2005, Geneva, Switzerland
3rd meeting of the Preparatory Committee for the World Summit on the Information Society (PrepCom-3)
http://www.wsis.org
civil society perspectives
http://www.worldsummit2005.org
21-23 September 2005, French Riviera, World E-ID .
The three day conference World e-ID (previously named 'eGovernment &
SmartCard International Meeting') is organised by the main pan-european
e-government association eForum and deals with the future application of
DNA and other biometrics for identification usages, both politically and
technically. High-level representatives from the national governments and
from the European Commission will present an inventory of current
initiatives and speak about their visions of the future. .
http://www.strategiestm.com/conferences/we-id/05/program.htm
1 October 2005, deadline Call for Papers 22C3
The 22nd German Chaos Communication Conference is inviting submissions
from potential speakers, either in German or English. The conference will
take place in Berlin from 27 to 31 December 2005.
http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/cfp.html
5 October 2005, Paris, France, RFID
Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID): Applications and Public Policy Considerations. Conference convened by the Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy (ICCP) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
25 October 2005, Vienna, Austria
28 October 2005, Bielefeld and Prague, Germany and Czech Republic
29 October 2005, Zurich, Switzerland
Presentations of the Big Brother Awards
International ceremony schedule
http://www.bigbrotherawards.org/
1-2 December 2005, London, UK, Patenting Lives
Conference in the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute. The call for papers closes on 26 August 2005 and invites abstracts on topics such as Access to Knowledge, Consumer Aspects, Public Interest, Public Goods, Public Domain and Human Rights.
http://www.patentinglives.org/conference.htm