Privacy Goes to the Movies – Sunday 7 September
Australian Government Solicitor's Office Privacy Training Seminars - Friday 5, Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 September
Body as Data Conference - Monday 8 September
IBM Privacy Technology Summit - Monday September 8
Global Privacy Management - Tuesday 9 September
P3P and Enterprise Privacy Languages workshop Worldwide Web Consortium - September 9
Surveillance and Privacy 2003: Terrorists and Watchdogs - international law and policy conference - Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 September
Workshop on international dimensions of privacy - Saturday 13 September
International Workshop On Privacy Impact Assessment - Tuesday 16 September

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Privacy Goes to the Movies – Sunday 7 September

Attend an evening of privacy related films and discussion with privacy experts and film critics at a screening of Francis Ford Coppola’s classic film on surveillance, The Conversation, and Gattaca directed by Andrew Niccol, at the Valhalla Cinema, Glebe, Sydney.

Presented by the Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner & the Baker & McKenzie Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre at UNSW.

Gattaca depicts a futuristic society where genetic constitution determines success. It stars Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman. The Conversation stars Gene Hackman as a paranoid, cagey surveillance expert who has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.

Venue: Valhalla Cinema, 166 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, Sydney
Time: 4pm and 6:30pm with a discussion panel at 6pm, intermission
Cost: $15 for the double session, $10 for one film.

Discussion Panel:

• Julie Rigg (President of Film Critic's Circle of Australia)
• Peter Galvin (Writer/Film critic)
• Tim Dixon (Australia Privacy Foundation)
• Irene Graham (Electronic Frontiers Australia)
• Patrick Flanagan (Former Channel 10 Big Brother contestant )
• Roger Clarke (Data Surveillance expert)
  

Australian Government Solicitor's Office Privacy Training Seminars - Friday 5, Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 September

The Australian Government Solicitor's (AGS) office will be offering three full day Privacy training seminars for public sector officers in Sydney on Friday 5th September 2003, Monday 8th September 2003 and Tuesday 9th September 2003, preceding the conference. These seminars are:

(a) Friday 5th September - 'Records Management': this seminar provides participants with an overview of the records management standards and information-access laws which apply in the public sector.

(b) Monday, 9th September - 'Introduction to Privacy': this seminar provides an overview of the history and context of the Privacy Act, and discusses its key concepts including terminology, application, the role of the Privacy Commissioner, the operation of each of the IPPs and the practical implications of compliance.

(c) Tuesday, 10th September - 'Advanced Privacy - Use & Disclosure': this seminar outlines the legal consequences of the Act and the privacy policy issues relating to the use and disclosure of personal information.

For further information on the training being offered by AGS please e-mail krissy.dickason@ags.gov.au or phone (02) 6253 7436.

Body as Data Conference - Monday 8 September

The Privacy Commissioner for the State of Victoria will be hosting a one day conference in the Victorian state capital, Melbourne, on 8 September 2003. The 'Body as Data' conference will focus on issues at the forefront of the international privacy debate: biometrics, authentication, identity and DNA. Melbourne is a one hour flight from Sydney. Guests to the International Conference may like to commence their stay in Australia by attending the 'Body as Data' conference in Melbourne. Professor Stefano Rodotà, President of the Italian Data Protection Commission, will be the keynote speaker for the conference. Other confirmed speakers and further information can be found on the Victorian Privacy Commissioner's website at www.privacy.vic.gov.au.

IBM Privacy Technology Summit - Monday September 8
Banjo Patterson Room, Sydney Harbour Marriott Hotel, 30 Pitt Street Sydney.

IBM is a pioneer in privacy technology and has an extensive portfolio of solutions and real world experiences to share. The Summit is a forum where IBM and industry speakers will demonstrate state-of-the-art privacy technology solutions and discuss enterprise challenges in privacy management from the Australian and New Zealand standpoint.

Our speakers will review the latest legislative developments in privacy, and use customer case studies to describe privacy technologies and illustrate architectural best practices. We'll finish the afternoon with an interactive workshop on building an ROI model and a business case for Privacy technology investment.

Global Privacy Management - Tuesday 9 September

The CPO Network (www.cpo.net.au), a professional network of privacy officers from many of Australia's largest companies, will be hosting a one-day conference for privacy professionals from around the world. The conference will provide a forum for privacy officers to exchange ideas and experiences on several of the main dimensions of the CPO role. The four panel sessions will address several of the major challenges that global businesses face in managing the collection, usage and flow of personal data - including managing internal stakeholders, privacy performance metrics, consent management and managing privacy issues across global businesses. The conference will feature experts from several countries and provide substantial opportunity for questions and interaction. www.cpo2003.com

P3P and Enterprise Privacy Languages workshop Worldwide Web Consortium - September 9

Hosted by IBM Australia

The Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) enables web sites to express their privacy practices in a standard format that can be retrieved automatically and interpreted easily by user agents. IBM's Enterprise Privacy Authorization Language allows organizations to enforce their privacy practices and policies in enterprise IT systems. This workshop will explore these privacy languages, and others, to gain valuable feedback from local and global organizations with regards to developing standards.
http://www.w3.org/2003/09/09-sydney.html

Surveillance and Privacy 2003: Terrorists and Watchdogs - international law and policy conference - Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 September

This conference will be hosted by the Baker & McKenzie Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre www.bakercyberlawcentre.org at the University of New South Wales Faculty of Law on Monday 8th and Tuesday 9th September 2003, preceding the Commissioners' conference.

The conference at 'The Scientia', University of NSW, Sydney, will have two themes. "State surveillance after September 11: Asia-Pacific examples and reactions" will review the current threats to privacy, cyber-liberties and data protection in the post-2001 security environment, especially in the Asia Pacific region, and includes physical, online and biomedical privacy issues. The second theme, "Privacy and Data Protection Commissioners after 30 years: A critical reassessment", will enable a fundamental review of the achievements and challenges in the evolution and proliferation of official privacy "watchdogs". There will also be a number of related events, including the APF's first Australian 'Big Brother Awards' presentation www.privacy.org.au, and the launch of an Asia-Pacific Privacy Charter Council www.bakercyberlawcentre.org/appcc/

For more details about the Conference please see www.bakercyberlawcentre.org/2003/Privacy_Conf/index.htm or contact David Vaile, Executive Director at d.vaile@unsw.edu.au or Professor Graham Greenleaf at g.greenleaf@unsw.edu.au

Workshop on international dimensions of privacy - Saturday 13 September

The Chair of the APEC Privacy Sub-group will be hosting a half day privacy workshop on the morning of Saturday 13 September 2003 immediately following the conference and at the same venue. The Sub-group has been established to develop APEC Privacy Principles and implementation mechanisms for protecting privacy across national borders. For further information please e-mail alex.lang@ag.gov.au.

International Workshop On Privacy Impact Assessment - Tuesday 16 September

The New Zealand Privacy Commissioner will host a 1-day international workshop on Tuesday 16 September 2003, in the week following the international conference. The workshop, to be held in Auckland will enable those actively involved in privacy impact assessment to take stock of and learn from accumulated experiences in this rapidly developing data protection methodology. Auckland is a 3-hour flight from Sydney with numerous daily airline connections. Guests to the international conference may wish to return home through Auckland or take a side trip from their visit to Australia. To find out more about the workshop contact Blair Stewart, Assistant Privacy Commissioner at pia@privacy.org.nz .