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24. Internationale Datenschutzkonferenz vom 9. bis 11. September 2002:
Communiqué from Closed Session 9/9/02
Representatives from over 50 Data Protection Authorities
and Privacy Commissioners attended the 24th International
Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners Conference
held in Cardiff, Wales. The Conference was jointly hosted
by the Commissioners from Republic of Ireland, Jersey,
Guernsey, Isle of Man and the United Kingdom.
The assembled Commissioners and their representatives
discussed many matters of common concern ranging from
privacy issues in relation to websites through to video surveillance of the population in public and private places.
However, the Commissioners devoted a substantial amount
of time to considering the various national responses to the
terrorist attacks on 11th September 2001.
The Commissioners agreed that whilst there is the need to
protect society from such outrages the reaction in many
countries may have gone beyond a measured response to the
terrorist threat with serious implications for personal privacy. The Commissioners agreed that the need to safeguard
personal privacy in such developments remains an essential
task for the world wide data protection community. Unless
an approach is taken by Governments which correctly
weighs data protection and privacy concerns there is a real
danger that they will start to undermine the very fundamental freedoms they are seeking to protect.
BfD 19. Tätigkeitsbericht 2001–2002