<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--><p class="PrivacySurveybodytxt"><o:p> (Abstracts from Privacy & Human Rights Report. A survey of privacy law and developments in 78 countries. (forthcoming).</o:p></p><p class="PrivacySurveybodytxt">Countries that host the Olympics increasingly
ignore privacy considerations in their preparation for the Games and beyond in
the name of security and counterterrorism. Violations of individuals’ privacy
under constitutional, statutory, and international frameworks range from the
loss of anonymity in public places to the inability to communicate and
associate freely with others. The coverage and capabilities of Closed Circuit
Television (CCTV) has risen dramatically from the Games in Athens, Greece to
the recent ones in Beijing, China. Technological advances incorporate CCTV
surveillance systems with those related to electronic wiretapping,
identification systems, and intelligence sharing. These purported
counterterrorism measures have been developed and implemented with the
assistance of foreign governments, some of which claim to support transparency
and democratic values. The record US$ 6.4 billion dollars China was spent on
surveillance equipment for the Games in Beijing represents a greater than
fourfold increase compared to the ones in Athens.<a style="mso-footnote-id:
ftn" href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref" title=""><span class="FootnoteCharacters"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"><span style="mso-special-character:
footnote">[1]</span></span></span></a><span class="FootnoteCharacters"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">
</span></span>The damage to individuals’ privacy rights and civil liberties
continues beyond the Closing Ceremonies.</p><p class="PrivacySurveybodytxt">(...)</p>
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<div style="mso-element:footnote" id="ftn"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="mso-footnote-id:ftn" href="#_ftnref" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
8.0pt;font-family:Times"><span style="mso-special-character:footnote">[1]</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Times;color:black"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Times">Dexter Roberts, “<span style="color:black">China: Bombings Add to Olympics Terrorism Fears,”
BusinessWeek, July 28, 2008, available at <<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jul2008/gb20080728_898768.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Times;mso-hansi-font-family:Times">http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jul2008/gb20080728_898768.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily</span></a>>;
see also Minas Samatas, “Security and Surveillance in the Athens 2004
Olympics”, available at
<<a href="http://icj.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/17/3/220">http://icj.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/17/3/220</a>><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<div><div><br></div><div>On Oct 4, 2009, at 8:21 PM, Carlos A. Afonso wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Thanks, mate! After Wolf's message, I cannot stop thinking about what<br>the Net and media will be in seven years, and how this will reflect in<br>the 2016 Olympics.<br><br>--c.a.<br><br>Paul Wilson wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Reminds me of ECO '92, UNCED, or the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">where Carlos Afonso's organisation Alternex was instrumental in bringing<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">in one of the first permanent Internet connections (64kbps I think) in<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the country. Numerous APC folk, including Ian Peter and myself, were<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">there to help, promoting the wonders of this new technology to delegates<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">at the Summit.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">It's nice to see we've come a little way since then.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Paul<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">--On 2 October 2009 8:56:49 PM +0200 "\"Kleinwächter, Wolfgang\""<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><<a href="mailto:wolfgang.kleinwaechter@medienkomm.uni-halle.de">wolfgang.kleinwaechter@medienkomm.uni-halle.de</a>> wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">To all our Barzilian members:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Congratulations to the 2016 Olympics in Rio. This will be Olympic Games<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">which can be followed not only by TV and radio but by billions of<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Internet Users worldwide. Lets waoit and see how Rio comes with new<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Internet innovations until 2016. :-)))<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Wolfgang<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">____________________________________________________________<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> <a href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">To be removed from the list, send any message to:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> <a href="mailto:governance-unsubscribe@lists.cpsr.org">governance-unsubscribe@lists.cpsr.org</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">For all list information and functions, see:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> <a href="http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance">http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">________________________________________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Paul Wilson, Director-General, APNIC <<a href="mailto:dg@apnic.net">dg@apnic.net</a>><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://www.apnic.net">http://www.apnic.net</a> ph/fx +61 7 3858 3100/99<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">____________________________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> <a href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">To be removed from the list, send any message to:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> <a href="mailto:governance-unsubscribe@lists.cpsr.org">governance-unsubscribe@lists.cpsr.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">For all list information and functions, see:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> <a href="http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance">http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br>-- <br><br>Carlos A. Afonso<br>CGI.br (<a href="http://www.cgi.br">www.cgi.br</a>)<br>Nupef (<a href="http://www.nupef.org.br">www.nupef.org.br</a>)<br>====================================<br>new/nuevo/novo e-mail: <a href="mailto:ca@cafonso.ca">ca@cafonso.ca</a><br>====================================<br>____________________________________________________________<br>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<br> <a href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a><br>To be removed from the list, send any message to:<br> <a href="mailto:governance-unsubscribe@lists.cpsr.org">governance-unsubscribe@lists.cpsr.org</a><br><br>For all list information and functions, see:<br> <a href="http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance">http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>