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DRAFTS / DISCUSSIONS Data Protection Discussion Paper--MS Word or RTF CO-CHAIRS Marcia Sullivan Director Government Relations The Consumer Bankers Association 1000 Wilson Blvd. Ste. 3012 Arlington, VA 22209 703.276.3873 703.528.1290 fax msullivan@cbanet.org W. Scott Blackmer Wilmer, Cutler, & Pickering 2445 M Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20037 202-663-6167 202-663-6363 fax sblackmer@wilmer.com Barbara Wellbery Counsel to the Under Secretary of Commerce U.S. Dept. of Commerce 14th & Constitution Avenue NW Room 4717 Washington, DC 20230 202-482-1614 202-501-2548 fax barbara_wellbery@ita.doc.gov PARTICIPANTS Joan Affleck-Smith Lynne Barr Pierre-Gilles Belanger Julie Brill John Byrne Sally Cowan Mallory Duncan James F. Febeo L. Richard Fischer Libby Fishman Amy Friend Francoise Gilbert Amy M. Gizzarelli Daniel Greenwood Robert Grohowski Andrew Grosso Susan Hart Jeffrey V. Havercroft Janine Hiller Richard Hornbeck Oliver Ireland Sandra Kirsch Kathy Kohler David Leifer Robert Litan Sanley Mabbitt James Maxeiner David Medine John Messing Daniel Morton Shannon Nebolsky Ronald Plesser Mary Revell Ralph Rohner Linda Schmid Jay Soloway Barry Sookman Forrest Stanley Paul Tackaberry Charles Terribile George Trubow Robert Vastine Clint Walker Joan Warrington Hillel Weinberg Jody Westby Rafael Zahralddin	PRIVACY Articles Anonymity and Its Enmities, 1995 J. Online L. art. 4, by A. Michael Froomkin Electronic Commerce - Policing only the 'Submarginal fringe', by Mary Clare Fitzgerald International Data Transfers and Methods To Strengthen International Co-operation by Joel R. Reidenberg Legal Issues Relating to Internet Web Sites: A Canadian Perspective by Alan Gahtan and J. Fraser Mann National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Privacy and the NII: Safeguarding Telecommunications-Related Personal Information (White Paper) (Oct. 1995) Of Elephants, Mice, and Privacy: International Choice of Law and the Internet, August 23, 1998, the International Lawyer Privacy in the Electronic Age, Prepared Remarks of Christine A. Varney Re-Engineering American Information Privacy Protection (The Commerce in Information Infrastructure Commission), by Richard Hornbeck Summary of the FTC Public Workshop, "Consumer Privacy on the Global Information Infrastructure" on June 4-5, 1996, by Christina Sarris Task Force Develops Privacy Principles, Chi. Daily L. Bull., Nov. 9, 1995, at 6, by David Loundy The First Internet War: The State of Nature and the First Internet War: Scientology, its Critics, Anarchy, and Law in Cyberspace, Reason, Apr. 1996, by David G. Post Cases Federal District Courts: Millenium Enterprises, Inc. v. Millenium Music, LP, Civ. No. 98 1058-AA (D. Ore. 1/4/99) Legislation Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986, 18 U.S.C. 2701-2711 Web Links Council of Europe recommendation 99-5 for the protection of privacy on the Internet European Commission E-Commerce Directive Electronic Privacy Information Center European Commission Working Party on Data Protection Opinion 1/99 concerning the level of data protection in the United States, January 26 EC Working Party Recommendation 1/99 on Invisible and Automatic Processing of Personal Data on the Internet, February 23 EU Data Protection Directive FTC Report on Self-regulation and Privacy Online House Commerce Committee Telecommunications, Trade and Consumer Protection Subcommittee hearing (July 13)- Status of privacy protections for online consumers H.R. 10 on financial modernization I Can See You, by Justin A. Boyan (Sept. 1, 1995). Joint release on the EU-US data protection dialogue Privacy and the National Information Infrastructure:  Principles for Providing and Using Personal Information (Final Version) (June 6, 1995). PrivacyExchange--links to all the principal papers and laws. Commerce Department's International Safe Harbor Privacy Principles--U.S. and EU are working on safe harbor privacy guidelines to exempt companies that adhere to certain privacy principles from legal prosecution. The principles would require a company to disclose the type of information it collects about individuals and also, through "reasonable measures," to assure the protection and proper use of that data. The Global Internet Liberty Campaign has summaries of national privacy laws in and outside the OECD. The Global Information Infrastructure Commission's recommendations start at page 16 of its October 98 report. Office of Management and Budget instructions to federal government agencies on privacy and personal information in federal records, January 1999 Online Privacy Alliance--WCP prepared a "Legal Framework White Paper" for the Online Privacy Alliance to submit to the US Department of Commerce on Safe Harbor principles. Internet Privacy Home Page at Ohio State University U.S. press release on U.S. - EU data privacy talks, March 17, 1999 Sweden -- Personal Data Act (in English) and accompanying documents
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