Privacy was Re: [governance] Who will be in Rio?

[Guru@ITfC]

'Any disclosure is a privacy breach' - is this the position in all of
Europe? Would sharing the information on the program at Rio (with names of
panelists/speakers) be a privacy violation unless the speakers have
explicitly consented to such info being shared? That would seem untenable.

As Seiti pointed out, a balancing act between disclosure (which is sometimes
another facet of transparency) and breach of 'privacy' may be more apt to a
public space as IGF. For e.g., would a sharing of the list of registered
participants (sharing their contact info is a separate issue) be useful to
participants to plan any common meetings/discussions to further their common
agendas at Rio? 

Guru

-----Original Message-----
From: Vittorio Bertola [mailto:vb at bertola.eu] 
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 8:20 PM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Seiiti Arata
Subject: Re: Privacy was Re: [governance] Who will be in Rio?

Seiiti Arata ha scritto:
> Hi Robert, should we consider IGF as a public event and thus the 
> listing disclosure being no privacy breach? This is an interesting point.

At least in Europe, any disclosure is a privacy breach unless authorized in
advance by the individual. The fact that the event is public doesn't matter.
(Of course after the event you can compile a list of people you saw there,
but that's different from disclosing an official list.) I would suggest that
any list of participants should be opt-in only.
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