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Conference Calendar

Health Information Privacy: Dialogue with the stakeholders, Ottawa, Canada, 21st September 2000

A one-day seminar and training session on how to comply with Canada's new privacy Act. The seminar will also discuss plans to create an "electronic health record" for every Canadian. Speakers include Brian Foran, Director, Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner.

For more information, go to http://www.rileyis.com/seminars, or telephone Riley Information Services at +1 613 236 7844.

22nd International Conference on Privacy and Personal Data Protection, "Towards an electronic citizenship," Venice, Italy, 28-30th September 2000

International Conference of Data Protection & Privacy Commissioners, which is also open to fee-paying observers. The conference is being organised by Italy's Data Protection Authority, Tel: + 39 06 681 8636. The preliminary programme will be available on the Internet at http:// www.dataprotection.org/garante

Conference on Privacy & Social Research, New York, USA, 5-7th October 2000

This conference will discuss the distinction between private and public, the legal construction of privacy, threats to privacy and the relationship between privacy and the state.

Speakers include Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director of EPIC and Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Harward University.

The conference is being organised by Arien Mack, Editor of Social Research and Marrow Professor of Psychology at the Graduate Facility of New School University.

For more information, please see http://www.newschool.edu/ centers/socres/privacy

PL&B Consultation on the UK DP Commissioner's Human Resources Code of Practice, London, UK, 17th October 2000

This one day event covers the Data Protection Commissioner's proposal for a Human Resources Code of Practice, which will be available for consultation at the time. Based on the presentations and comments received during the day, PL&B staff will prepare a memo to be sent to the Commissioner and participants. Take this opportunity to put your views to the Commissioner.

Issues that will be discussed include recruitment, staff testing, disciplinary matters, record keeping, surveillance, contract staff and international issues. Speakers include David Smith, Assistant Commissioner, ODPC, who has been responsible for drafting the code. The full programme can be seen at http://www.privacylaws.com

Privacy & American Business Seventh Annual National Conference, Washington DC, USA, 28-30th November 2000

A conference which discusses privacy issues, trends and solutions. For more information, contact PA&B, Tel: + 1 201 996 1154, e-mail: ctrslr@aol.com.