Talk on e-government and privacy

dublin | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Friday October 01, 2004 21:08 by Malachy Murphy - Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) 40-41 Lower Dominick Street, Dublin 1.

Simon Davies of Privacy International Visits Dublin

Simon Davies of Privacy International gives a talk on e-government and privacy.

The Dublin Legal Workshop (Trinity College Dublin), in association with, The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL), present

Simon Davies "Giving guns to psychopaths. Why e-government will bring an end to privacy"

On Monday, 11 October 2004, at 8 pm, Joly Lecture Theatre, Hamilton Building (i.e. Pearse St. DART station end), Trinity College Dublin.

All are welcome to attend

Simon Davies has worked for almost twenty years as a privacy advocate and specialist in IT, consumer rights and data protection and is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading privacy advocates. He is founder and director of the civil rights watchdog organisation Privacy International ; he has been a consultant adviser to numerous governmental, professional and corporate bodies; and he has an extensive publication record on privacy and technology matters. He will be in Ireland to work with the Irish Council for Civil Liberties at the launch of its Privacy Audit - an examination of the current protection of privacy in Ireland in light of modern international standards.