13-14 September 2004, Geneva, Switzerland
The TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) will host a two-day meeting in Geneva on the Future of WIPO. The meeting will bring together leading experts and stakeholders from academia, industry, NGOs, and governments, as well as members of the WIPO secretariat, to discuss the future of this United Nations Agency. To register for this event (no fee), contact: Ben Wallis, Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue Co-ordinator, Consumers International mailto:bwallis@consint.org

14-16 September 2004, Wroclaw, Poland
The 26th International Conference on privacy and personal data protection: 'the Right to Privacy - the Right to Dignity'.
This annual gathering of the world's data protection commissioners will be preceded on 13 June by a publicly accessible conference organised by EPIC, Privacy International and EDRI, called 'Privacy in a New Era: Challenges, Opportunities and Partnerships'
http://www.giodo.gov.pl/168/id_art/175/j/en/
http://www.thepublicvoice.org/events/wroclaw04/default.html

15-17 September 2004, Strasbourg, France
The Council of Europe is planning a major international conference on "The Challenge of Cybercrime", which will bring together senior politicians, computer industry leaders and experts from around the world. No online information yet. Civil society or members of the European parliament explicitly not invited.

28 September 2004, Paris, France
One day conference "Les reponses aux defis du peer to peer" (Answers to P2P challenges) at the French Senate, organised by the 'Forum des droits sur l'Internet'.
http://www.defis-p2p.org/

29-30 September 2004, Paris, France
5th Worldwide forum on electronic democracy, organised by Mr Andre Santini, French Member of Parliament and president of the Global Cities dialogue.
http://www.issy.com/statiques/e-democratie/index_EN.htm

30 September-3 October 2004, Berlin, Germany
New EDRI-member FIfF is organising a conference '20 Years of FIfF - ReVisions of Critical Informatics'.The bilingual (German, English) conference will take place at the Humboldt University in Berlin.
http://www.fiff.de/2004/

16 October 2004, Emmen, Switzerland
Swiss Big Brother Awards
http://www.bigbrotherawards.ch

26 October 2004, Vienna, Austria
Austrian Big Brother Awards
http://www.bigbrotherawards.at

29 October 2004, Bielefeld, Germany
German Big Brother Awards
http://www.bigbrotherawards.de