6 December 2004, Namur, Belgium
Afternoon seminar on trans-border data flows and the safe harbour case
http://www.droit.fundp.ac.be/colloques/transborderDataflow.htm

7 December 2004, Zurich, Switzerland
First open debate about the Swiss Creative Commons, scheduled to be launched in spring 2005
http://www.openlaw.ch

10 December 2004, Oxford, UK
Reflecting on the Civil Society Agenda, debate in the Oxford Internet Institute about the WSIS Civil Society declaration that emphasizes a commitment to: "building information and communication societies that are people-centred, inclusive and equitable".
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/collaboration/?rq=specialevents/20050101

10 December 2004, Brussels, Belgium
Creative Commons-Belgium launch event. Following Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands, Belgium is launching a bi-lingual national version of the Creative Commons license, translated by the CRID, Centre de Recherches Informatique et Droit of the University of Namen and the CIR, Centre for Intellectual Rights of the University of Leuven.
http://creativecommons.org/projects/international/be.

14 January 2005, Athens, Greece
ePSINet Policy Conference on re-use of Public Sector Information in Europe. The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for policy makers, public content providers, re-users and international experts to discuss the prospects for adding value through commercial exploitation of public sector information. The conference will also act as a progress check on the early implementation of the European Directive on PSI re-use, published late in 2003, and discuss the future agenda. Registration is free for the first 150 participants.
http://www.epsigate.org/conf.htm

21 January 2005, Paris, France, Big Brother Awards
The organising committee of the French Big Brother Awards is inviting the public to nominate people, institutions and governments that have excelled in violating privacy and enhancing control. The French have opened a new category, for nominations in the 'Novlang/Newspeak Award', dedicated to public manipulation of the masses aimed at making people docile to control, surveillance, tagging and tracing their private lives. Public nominations French Big Brother Awards
http://candidats.bigbrotherawards.eu.org/

12-15 April 2005, Seattle, USA, CFP 2005
The program committee of the annual Computer, Freedom, Privacy Conference is accepting proposals for conference sessions and speakers for CFP2005. The deadline for submissions is 31 December 2004. The conference will be held in the Westin Hotel in Seattle, Washington.
http://www.cfp2005.org