[9394] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Demographics Workshop
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Burchard)
Fri Dec 1 21:22:50 1995
From: Paul Burchard <burchard@cs.princeton.edu>
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 95 20:54:51 -0500
To: khare@w3.org
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
Reply-To: burchard@cs.princeton.edu
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Rohit Khare <khare@pest.w3.org> writes:
>
> WORKSHOP ON INTERNET SURVEY METHODOLOGY AND WEB DEMOGRAPHICS
> 5. Are ethical issues raised by this activity, and what might be
> needed to protect individual rights?
I hope this workshop will also include informed discussion of the
international _legal_ issues surrounding privacy. It's no longer
merely a matter of personal ethics, since some governments have
begun to codify strong privacy rights. For example, see the EC
policy at:
http://cpsr.org/cpsr/privacy/privacy_international/international_laws/ec_data_protection_directive_1995.txt
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