'State surveillance after September 11:
Asia-Pacific examples and reactions'

The overall theme of Day 1 is the emerging new demands of the State in surveillance of communications, transactions and movements, and the cooperation the State receives from key private sector players including carriers, ISPs, banks, Certification Authorities and others in achieving these aims. How can individual privacy survive the attentions of our increasingly sophisticated and interacting institutions?

8:30

Registration

9:00

Welcome to the Conference

9:10

New moves in communications surveillance: Telcomms and Internet

Echelon - New interception laws - Log retention by ISPs - 'Total Information Awareness'

Chair:

Speakers:

Nigel Waters

Mr Nicky Hager, Investigative journalist, New Zealand
- Echelon in the Asia-Pacific: A Guided Tour

Mr Cédric Laurant, Policy Counsel
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), USA
- National security and privacy protection: global tensions

Ms Irene Graham, Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA)
- Silent numbers, CLI, carriers and ISPs

10:40  

Morning Tea

11:00  

Spam control: Opportunities and dangers

Australian and overseas laws - alternatives ISP roles - privacy and free speech

Chair:

Speakers:

Panelists:

David Vaile

Mr Lindsay Barton, National Office for the Information Economy (NOIE)
- Australia's progress on laws to control SPAM

Dr Jason Catlett, Junkbusters, USA

Ms Irene Graham, Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA)

Ms Jodie Sangster, Australian Direct Marketing Association (ADMA)

Mr Troy Rollo, CAUBE.AU
(Coalition Against Unsolicited Bulk Email, Australia)

12:30

Lunch

1:30

Authentication and identification: New paradigms

Distributed ID paradigms - smart ID cards - ID theft - biometrics - surveillance in public places

Chair: 

Speakers:

Panelists:

Roger Clarke

Chris Connolly, Financial Services Consumer Policy Centre, UNSW
- Distributed identity paradigms: new dangers

Prof. Natsui Takato, Mejei University, Japan
- Smart Cards and privacy in Japan

Dr Roger Clarke, Visiting Professor, UNSW Law
- Why biometrics should be banned

Prof. Graham Greenleaf, UNSW, Australia

Nigel Waters, former Deputy Privacy Commissioner, Australia

Prof. James Rule, State University of New York, USA

Nicky Hager, Investigative journalist, New Zealand

Mr Tim McBride privacy law advocate,
author, commentator, lecturer, New Zealand

3:00 

Afternoon Tea

3:20 

(previous session discussion reconvenes)

3:50 

The APEC Privacy Principles: Are regional governments abandoning high standards?

Who runs APEC? - OECD Lite? - competing APT standards - free trade agreements - adequacy? - regional data exports

Chair:

Speakers:

Panelists:

Tim Dixon

Prof Graham Greenleaf, UNSW, Australia
- APEC vs Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (APT)?:
  The struggle for regional privacy standards

Mr Cédric Laurant, Policy Counsel
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), USA

Ms Stephanie Perrin, CEO, Digital Discretion, Canada

Other panelists drawn from the day's speakers.

4:50   

Conclusion of Day 1

6:00

Australian Privacy Foundation's 'Big Brother Awards', and Conference Drinks

7:00 

Conference Dinner

What use are Privacy Commissioners?:
A critical reassessment after 30 years

It is 30 years since information privacy laws and the office of Privacy Commissioner or Data Protection Commissioner started to spread through Europe and then through the Asia-Pacific. We need to re-assess how well the office of Privacy Commissioner works, its effectiveness and accountability.

The Speakers and Panelists include three former and current Privacy Commissioners, former and current Deputy Privacy Commissioners, authors of six of the very few international comparative studies of privacy laws and privacy protection agencies, and authors of national analyses of the performance of Privacy Commissioners and of their dispute resolution practices. All major Asia-Pacific jurisdictions are represented, with additional distinguished European participants. There will never have been a public discussion like this.

8:30

Registration

9:00

Welcome and introduction to Day 2 theme -

'What use are Privacy Commissioners?: A critical reassessment after 30 years'
Prof. Graham Greenleaf

9:10

Commissioners' roles in confronting powerful interests: Duck and cover?

Do they stop new surveillance systems? - legitimate them? - who is their constituency?

Chair:

Speaker:

Panelists:

James Rule

Prof. David Flaherty, former Information and Privacy Commissioner of
British Columbia, Canada

Ms Stephanie Perrin
CEO, Digital Discretion, Canada

Mr Chris Puplick
former NSW Privacy Commissioner

Mr Nigel Waters
former Deputy Privacy Commissioner, Australia

Mr Tim McBride
Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Auckland, New Zealand

10:40  

Morning Tea

11:00  

Remedies: Does anyone ever get them?

Who gets damages? - do they stop practices? - are parties satisfied?

Chair: 

Speakers:

Panelists:

Graham Greenleaf

Associate Prof. Paul Roth
University of Otago, New Zealand

Bruce Slane
Privacy Commissioner, New Zealand

Dr. Hyu Bong Chung
Korean Information Security Agency (KISA), Korea

Dr Lee Bygrave
Associate Professor, Norwegian Research Centre for Computers and the Law,
University of Oslo, Norway

12:30

Lunch

1:30

Black holes of privacy: Complaints go in, but does law ever come out?

Reporting practices - appeal rights - what law do they apply? - are Courts important?

Chair:  

Speakers:

Panelists:

Blair Stewart

Dr Lee Bygrave, Associate Professor, Norwegian Research Centre
for Computers and the Law, University of Oslo, Norway

Prof. Graham Greenleaf
University of New South Wales, Australia

Ms Katrine Evans
Senior Lecturer in Law, Victoria University,
Wellington, New Zealand

Ms Stephanie Perrin
CEO, Digital Discretion, Canada

Prof. David Flaherty
former Information and Privacy Commissioner of British Columbia, Canada

3:00 

Afternoon Tea

3:20 

Looking ahead: How do we make privacy laws work?

Bypassing Commissioners - making them work - representative complaints - do we need Commissioners?

Chair:

Speakers:

Panelists:

Lee Bygrave

Prof. Charles Raab,
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Chris Connolly
Financial Services Consumer Policy Centre, UNSW

Mr Blair Stewart
Assistant Privacy Commissioner, New Zealand

Prof. James Rule
State University of New York, USA

Dr. Hyu Bong Chung
Korean Information Security Agency (KISA), Korea

Mr Cédric Laurant, Policy Counsel
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), USA

5:00   

Conclusion of Day 2