13-14 January 2005, Berlin, Germany
3rd DRM Conference
Registration Deadline: 20th December 2004
http://digital-rights-management.org/

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

16 January 2005, Deadline EC consultation
Public consultation on the new action plan eEurope 2005-2010
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/eeurope/2005/all_about/2010_c...

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/

25 January 2005, Brussels, Belgium
Open workshop on the foundation of an EU Human Rights Agency Workshop registration form (in MS Word only)
http://europa.eu.int/comm/justice_home/news/consulting_public/fundamen...

3-4 February 2005, Paris, France - Unesco conference
4-5 February 2005, Oegstgeest, Netherlands - Unesco conference
Two conferences about online freedom of speech, access to information and privacy. Open to invited participants only.
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=17907&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC...

14-16 February 2005, Geneva, Switzerland
WSIS Working Group on Internet Governance meeting
http://www.wgig.org, http://www.worldsummit2005.org

17-25 February 2005, Geneva, Switzerland - WSIS PrepCom 2
http://www.wsis.org, http://www.worldsummit2005.org

31 March 2005, deadline call for papers on DRM
Special session on Digital Rights Management during the 31st Euromicro conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA) 2005 in Porto, Portugal. This special session is open to discuss technical, legal and business issues with DRM and the social aspects regarding users understanding and fair use. Papers should be around 6-8 pages (not exceeding 6000 words) and include an abstract.
http://www.idt.mdh.se/euromicro-2005/

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