[IRP] Vedrò position statement on Internet Regulation

[Katitza Rodriguez]

Dear all:
I want to contribute to the meeting on Sunday. I am sending a  
description of one of our panel for IGF. It will help us to move  
forward our discussion. Regards, Katitza

DESCRIPTION
A powerful global system of online data collection for targeted  
interactive online marketing has become of the principal features of  
the Internet. Throughout much of the world, individual user  
information is now routinely collected for profiling, tracking and  
targeting purposes that has raised growing concern over personal  
privacy and consumer welfare. Sophisticated digital marketing  
technologies, including the use of neuroscience for the creation of  
online interactive advertising, has also generated public debate,  
especially related to public health. While online advertising plays a  
critically important role in the Internet and Web 2.0, the majority of  
users are not well-informed about the potential impact personal data  
collection will have on their daily lives. There are, however, other  
online advertising models beyond behavioral targeting that may allow  
companies to reach target Internet users without the same risks to  
privacy.

This workshop is a follow-up to the event held during the IGF 2008. It  
will start by summarizing the major developments during 2009 around  
the world on this topic. It will discuss some of the online  
advertising and behavioral targeting models applied in search engines,  
online video, online games, web 2.0 and will discuss how personal data  
is being collected and how it is used. Balancing freedom of speech,  
privacy, online marketing and consumer protection, various  
alternatives will be explored, including a discussion of international  
policy frameworks that have been proposed to regulate privacy and  
online advertising.

Online advertising and its impact on Internet users and privacy is a  
global industry, impacting both developing and more economically- 
advantaged countries alike. Our panel will address practices affecting  
Internet users all over the world, with emphasis in Asia, South  
America and Africa. Among the outcomes of this panel will be specific  
criteria that participants can apply to their own countries, realities  
and circumstances.


On Sep 11, 2009, at 12:21 PM, Katitza Rodriguez wrote:

> Dear Max
>
> I am completely against to this specific phrase where you put  
> privacy together with copyright in such as negative connotation.
> The statement we already signed already reflect the vision of many  
> of this group.
>
> Best,
> Katitza
>
>
> On Sep 11, 2009, at 12:02 PM, Max Senges wrote:
>
>> Dear IRPlers
>>
>> IRP steering committee member Marco Pancini and myself participated  
>> in a 3 day think-tank workshop, where we discussed Internet  
>> regulation especially in the Italian context. We collabowrote a  
>> position statement that strongly features Human Rights and a user  
>> centered approach to Internet Governance. And we managed to call  
>> for and find commitment to bootstrap an Italian version/complement  
>> to the Chilling Effects clearing house for Online Rights  
>> infringement cases (www.chillingeffects.org pretty well setup for  
>> the USA with Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley and many others feeding  
>> the site).
>>
>> Marco kindly provided an english version of our position statement,  
>> which I just put online @ http://docs.google.com/View?id=ajcs86p9dx2s_20d2g3nwd9
>>
>> I think there are a couple of good points there, which we might  
>> want to pick up during our workshop this Sunday.
>>
>> Best,
>> Max
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>>
>> Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
>> committed citizens can change the world.
>> Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
>> ?----------------------Margaret Mead
>>
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>>
>> Dr. Max Senges
>> Chair Internet Rights and Principles Coalition
>>
>> www.internetrightsandprinciples.org
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Katitza Rodriguez
Director, EPIC International Privacy Project
katitza at epic.org



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