[WSIS CS-Plenary] Roundtable Consumers and Privacy in South America

[katitza at privaterra.org]

Roundtable Consumers and Privacy in South America
(Buenos Aires, 16 April, 2004)


Aim: promote the dialogue between consumer protection organizations,
government agencies, and privacy and consumer law experts.

Organizers: Electronic Privacy Information Center (USA), Instituto de
Derecho del Consumidor del Colegio Publico de Abogados de la Capital
Federal (Argentina), and Foro de Habeas Data (Argentina).

Date: 16 April, 2004, 9:00 – 17h30.

Location: Colegio Público de Abogados de la Capital Federal.  Address:
Corrientes 1441 – Ciudad de Buenos Aires - Argentina

Agenda and schedule:
9:00 – 9:15: Welcome.  Presentation of experts.
9:15 – 11:00: Panel 1: Recent developments in privacy and consumer
protection in South America.
11:30 – 13:30: Panel 2: Examples of work done by public interest groups in
the field of privacy and data protection – Collaboration between public
interest groups and government authorities.
13:30 – 15:00: Lunch.
15:00 – 15:45: Panel 3: The OECD and APEC Privacy Guidelines.
16:15 – 17:30: Panel 4: Future developments - Proposals for the work ahead
in privacy – Co-operation between consumer protection groups and
government data protection agencies in South America.

Featured speakers:
-        Horacio Bersten, Director of the Instituto de Derecho del
Consumidor del
Colegio Público, Expert in consumer law and Secretary General of the Unión
de Usuarios y Consumidores (Argentina);
-        Martín Bersten (Argentina);
-        Beatriz García Buitrago, President of Consumidores Argentinos
(Argentina);
-        Crisólogo Cáceres, ASPEC (Perú);
-        Ariel Caplan, Consumidores Libres (Argentina);
-        Enrique A. Chaparro, member of IACR, the International
Association of
Cryptologic Research, the Technical Committee on Security and Privacy of
IEEE Computer Society, and representative for Argentina with the Technical
Committee 11 (Security) of IFIP (International Federation of Information
Processing) (Argentina);
-        Giovani Fletcher, IPADECU (Panamá);
-        Renato Jijena Leiva, Attorney-at-Law (Chile);
-        Esteban Ruiz Martinez, author of “Los Informes Comerciales y el
derecho
a la información;” Agencia de Protección de datos personales (Data
Protection Authority) (Argentina);
-        Gustavo Maurino, A.C.I.J. (Argentina);
-        Gabriel Martinez Medrano, Attorney-at-law specialized in consumer
and
privacy cases (Argentina);
-        Eduardo Mercovich, Argentinean Committee of the International
Coalition
Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (Argentina);
-        Paulina Murillo, Tribuna de Consumidores (Ecuador);
-        Patricia Vaca Narvaja, Secretary, Defensa del Consumidor
(Argentina);
-        Pablo Palazzi, Attorney-at-law; author of “Transmisión
internacional de
datos personales y protección de la privacidad”; founder, Foro de Habeas
Data (Argentina);
-        Katitza Rodriguez, Director, Privaterra and CPSR-Perú (Perú);
-        Marc Rotenberg, President, Electronic Privacy Information Center
(EPIC)
(USA);
-        Liliana Schvartz, Expert in consumer law and author of “Los Informes
Comerciales” (Argentina);
-        Marcelo Sodré, IDEC (Brazil);
-        Pablo Segura, Agencia de Protección de datos personales (Data
Protection
Authority) (Argentina);
-        Antonino Serra, Consumers International (Oficina para América
Latina y
el Caribe) (Chile);
-        Angeles Spandonari (Argentina);
-        Gustavo Tanus, Director of www.proteccióndedatos.com.ar (Argentina);
-        Roberto Zorzoli, Consumidores Libres (Argentina);
Representatives from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and European
privacy experts are also expected.

Contact:
Cédric Laurant, EPIC; chlaurant at epic.org; +1 (202) 483-1140 x114.