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 growing number of other organisations.
Details will be announced at the EDRI website

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

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).

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