Public Voice Symposium

"Privacy and Data Protection in Latin America:
Analysis and Perspectives"

October 20-21, 2005
Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia

Launch of the first Spanish version of
"Privacy and Human Rights"

Organized by

Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
Grupo de Estudios en Internet, Comercio Electrónico, Telecomunicaciones e Informática de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de los Andes, Colombia (GECTI)
CPSR-Peru

 

Speakers:

Cecilia Azuara, Directora de Clasificación de Información, Federal Institute of Access to Information, IFAI. (México).

 

Humberto Carrasco, CPSR member, LLM Queen Mary (Chile).

Humberto Rolando Carrasco Blanc, Lawyer and Director of Lexplan S.A., Candidate to a Master in Communications and Telecommunications Law, Queen Mary, University of London, Master in Corporate Law Universidad del Desarrollo, Concepción – Chile..

Enrique Chaparro, Fundación Vía Libre (Argentina).

Enrique Chaparro is a specialist in computer security and information systems architecture. As an independent consultant, he has advised a large number of public and private organizations in Latin America and the U.S.A. and has been a contributor to several Bills on information technology policies and the use of free software by the governments of Argentina, Peru and Colombia.

Enrique is a frequent speaker atconferences on technical fields and on philosophical aspects of free software for universities and organizations in America and Europe. He is currently a member of the International Association of Cryptologic Research, the IEEE Technical Committee on Security and Privacy and the Fundacion Via Libre, among others. Mr. Chaparro holds degrees in Mathematics from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, the University of Waterloo and Royal Holloway - University of London.

Eduardo Cifuentes Muñoz, Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia).

Eduardo Cifuentes Muñoz is professor of private and constitutional law at the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, with a graduate degree from Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law, Columbia University. He was the Ombudsman in Colombia until 2003, when he became Director of the UNESCO Office of Human Rights. He has also been Magistrate and President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Colombia. Since March 2005 he has held the position of Dean of the Universidad de los Andes School of Law.

Mr. Cifuentes is founder and member of the Publishing Council of the Universidad de Los Andes Public Law and Private Law journals and member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Economic Law Bulletin. He has been distinguished by the Federal District Governor of Caracas, Venezuela, with the "Francisco Fajardo" Order, First Class (1995) and by the Colombian Congress with the "Great Cross" Order of Merit for his work for human rights (1999). He has written for Chilean, Colombian and Spanish publications.

Francisco Eguiguren Praeli, Head of the Academic Department of Law of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and professor in Constitutional Law (Peru)

Legal and consulting adviser in Constitutional Law, Human rights, Administrative Law and Administration of Justice issues, as well as elaboration and evaluation of international cooperation projects. Graduated in Law by the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, he is also Magister in Constitutional Law by the same school, where he has also been Head of the Academic Department of Law and University professor in Constitutional Law.

He has been ad hoc judge in the Inter-American Court of Human rights, consultant of technical and financial international cooperation organizations and agencies like the German Technical Cooperation, the Office of the High Commissioner of Nations United for the Human rights, the Inter-American Institute of Human rights, USAID, the Technical Cooperation of Belgium and the International Organization for the Migrations.

He has been also legal adviser of the Ministry of Justice, Chief of a main directorate of the Academy of the Magistrature and Executive Director of the Andean Commission of Jurists. He is author and coauthor of diverse books and publications in law, “La libertad de expresión e información y el derecho a la intimidad personal. Su desarrollo actual y sus conflictos” (2004) is just one of them.

Rafael Gamboa Bernate, GECTI, Bernate & Gamboa Abogados. (COLOMBIA)

Rafael H. Gamboa Bernate is a graduate of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana School of Law. Earn a LL.M. in Information Technology and in Intellectual Property, both from The John Marshall Law School Chicago.

He worked at Latin American Legal Initiatives Council (LALIC) at the American Bar Association Chicago. As a Project Assistant, he assists the Council’s Director in coordinating LALIC’s activities. Monitoring all aspects of the projects including the substantive project’s content. Communicate with LALIC representatives and partners abroad. Relaying research request and providing support to LALIC representatives overseas. Monitoring the political and economical events in the area. Prepare grant proposals, budgets and annual plans for the projects. Before joining LALIC, Mr. Gamboa-Bernate was in-house Counsel of Consorcio Canales Nacionales de Televisión (CARACOL Televisión and RCN Televisión ). Previously he worked at the Arbitration and Conciliation Center at the Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá and in Bernate & Gamboa Abogados. From 1999 through 2000 he taught Negotiation and Dispute Resolution at Agraria University in Bogotá Colombia. Currently he is undergraduate and graduated Professor at Universidad de Los Andes Law School and Sergio Arboleda Law School, teaching Intellectual Property and Information Technology issues. Internet, e-commerce, telecommunication and Informatics Study Group member of Universidad de los Andes.

Alejandra Magdalena Gils Carbó, Cuerpo Consultivo de la Dirección Nacional de Protección de Datos Personales of Argentina.

Alejandra Magdalena Gils Carbó, is a General District attorney before the National Camera of Appeals in Commercial Issues and it integrates the Advisory Board of the National Direction Personal Data Protection of Argentina.

She is author of the book “Régimen Legal de las Bases de Datos y Hábeas Data” published by the Editorial La Ley.

She integrated the group of experts summoned by the Red Cross International Committee to develop a regulation for the transfer of data for the search of missing people in warlike conflicts or internal violence, in the mark of the program “The Missing, the right to know.”

She worked as a teacher for the Universities of El Salvador and Belgrano and hab been hired by the Universidad Di Tella. She has written numerous publications, gives lectures and conferences and has participated actively during the legislative step of the Personal Data Protection Law in representation of the Ministerio Público Fiscal.

Karin Kuhfeldt, Delegate Ombudsperson for Constitutional and Legal Affairs of the Citizen Ombudsman’s Office (COLOMBIA)

Karin Kuhfeldt graduated from Law School from the Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia, and specialized in Tributary Law. At the moment she is Delegate Ombudsperson for Constitutional and Legal Affairs of the Citizen Ombudsman’s Office and previously she worked as Representative of the Citizen Ombudsman’s Person before the New Criminal System Drafting Commission as well as National Director for Public Defense. She has also been Delegate Auditor for Fiscal Control Surveillance at the General Auditor of the Republic’s Office, Colombian General Consul in Hamburg, Germany, Legal Secretary at the Presidency of the Colombian Republic and Delegate for the Ministry of Government before the Human Rights Commission, among other positions.

She has also been Constitutional Law and State General Theory Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, and had directed the Citizen Ombudsman’s Office magazine “La Defensa”.

Cédric Laurant, Internacional Privacy Project, EPIC (EUA).

Cédric Laurant is Director of Policy of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. He concentrates on international privacy issues and comparative policy and legal aspects of European and U.S.A. privacy regimes. Cédric's recent work has focused on the profiling of air travelers, video surveillance, radio-frequency identification technologies, the negotiation of the APEC Privacy Guidelines, governmental electronic surveillance and transborder data flows in the European Union and the United States, and the Council of Europe Cyber-crime Convention. He is the editor of the 2003 and 2004 Privacy and Human Rights Report, EPIC’s international survey of privacy laws and developments in the world. He also coordinates EPIC's actions within two international coalitions: the Global Internet Liberty Campaign (GILC) and the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD). Cédric holds a licence en droit (J.D.) from the University of Louvain (Belgium) and a Masters in Law from Columbia University School of Law (New York).

Pedro Mendizábal Simonetti, President, CPSR-Perú (Perú).

An attorney based in Lima, Pedro Mendizábal went to Law School at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, where he also studied philosophy at the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences and intellectual property at WIPO. He has worked as a legal advisor on contracts, commercial, finance and banking law and as a Consultant for Privaterra. Mr. Mendizábal has led workshops, projects and has written reports on privacy and secure communications for human rights NGOs and research journalists in Lima and Trujillo. He is also a member of the Society for Philosophy and Technology and Computer Professionals For Social Responsibility, and is founder and President of CPSR-Perú.

He was the CPSR-Perú’s representative at the Twelfth Session of the WIPO’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights. He is a frequent lecturer on computer and law issues and information technologies in Peru and abroad.

María Ángeles Montull Cremades, Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (España).

A graduate in Law from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Maria Angeles Montull works for the Spanish government as a policymaker in General Management of the Group "A" of the Spanish Goverment. She has been chief advisor to the Spanish Data Protection Agency since November 2004. Previously she worked as Head of the Technical Advice Area and Director of the Office of the Secretary of the State of the Upper Sports Council (2001-2004). At that time, she was also made a member of the NationalAnti-doping Commission and Secretary to the Electoral Standards Council. From May 1997 until November 2001 she was consecutively Head of the Programs Service and Headof thePrograms Area at the Institute of Women, a quasi-autonomous branch of the Spanish government’sMinistry of Employment and Social Affairs.

Previously she was an attorney for the National Consumers Council and the General Management of the Consumers Inspectorate.

Ariel Neyva Morales, Lawyer, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia).

 

Ivonne Muñoz, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey. (MEXICO)

Bachelor in Law and Master in Electronic Commerce both degrees received with thesis related with IT Law.

Since august of 2002 she has been a facilitator in the Information Security Extension Course sponsored by ITESM (www.itesm.mx) teaching the Legal and Ethic Aspects of the Information Security in Mexico City, State of Mexico, Hidalgo and Santa Fe Campi. Since 2001, lecturer and instructor in the academic events developed by the CERT® - UNAM teaching the workshop of Investigation of Forensic Law.

In her academic preparation is important to include: E-Government Extension Course sponsored by the World Bank and ITESM (2005), “Cyber Crimes and Computer Forensics” sponsored by United States Secret Service & Prisma Consulting Services (2003); “Ethics across the curricula” at Loyola University Chicago, Center for Ethics and Social Justice. (2002); Specialization course MERCOSUR-NAFTA-ALCA, “Formation and training of international consultants and arbitrates in E-Arbitration”, organized by the Tribunal Internacional de Conciliación y Arbitraje de MERCOSUR. Certificate as International Arbitrate received (2002); By the University of Post graduate studies in Law, achieved the: Course in Societary Law (2000), Course in Registrar Law (2000) and the Course in Notarial Law (1999).

Muñoz has been interviewed by the press about issues related to IT Law, phishing, personal data, computer forensics, e-commerce, electronic product code, identity & privacy and digital signatures. She’s member of the advisory council of the first information security oriented magazine in Mexico called B:Secure.

Currently is consultant of Federal Institute of Access to Public Information (IFAI) and coordinates the creation of the IT Law site – Digital & E-Security Rights Management (www.derecho-informatico.org)

Pablo Palazzi, Foro Habeas Data (Argentina).

Pablo Palazzi is an an attorney specializing in New Technologies Law. He attended Law School at the Universidad Católica Argentina in 1995 and is Master in Law in International Business and Trade Law from Fordham University Law School, which he attended as a World Bank scholarship holder in 1999. He has worked in the New York office of the law firm Morrison & Foerster and is founder of Ulpiano.com, a web site that works to spread legal information on the Internet. Mr. Palazzi is also founder and moderator of the Habeas Data Forum (www.habeasdata.org). His main work and research subjects are legal issues in relation tocomputing, personal data protection , intellectual property and theInternet . At the present he works for the law firm Cabanellas, Etchebarne, Kelly & Dell'Oro Maini in charge of the New Technologies Department.

Oscar Puccinelli, Doctor en Derecho Constitucional y coordinador Foro Habeas Data (Argentina).

Oscar Puccinelli is doctor in Constitutional Right by the University of Buenos Aires and professor of "Constitutional Right" and "Constitutional and Transnational Procedural Right" in the National University of Rosary. Professor honorary to the universities Antenor Orrego (Trujillo, Peru '), National of San Agustín is in addition (Arequipa, Peru ') and in the National University of Piura (Piura, Peru '). He has received prizes of the School of Lawyers of Rosary and of the Senate of the Argentina Nation by works of investigation. It is member of the Association Argentina de Constitutional Derecho, of the Institute of Public Right and Political Science of the School of Lawyers of Rosary and honorary member of Ilustre School of Lawyers of the Freedom (Trujillo, Peru '). He has diverse publications in the matter of right between which they emphasize "habeas the data in Indoiberoamérica" (Bogota, 1999) and "Regime of protection of the personal data" (Buenos Aires, 2004).

 

Nelson Remolina Angarita, GECTI (Colombia).

NELSON REMOLINA ANGARITA. Founder and director of the GECTI (Computing, Telecommunications, e-Commerce, and Internet Studies Group) of the University of "Los Andes" http://derecho.uniandes.edu.co/derecho1/export/derecho/GECTI/index.html. He is an attorney specializing in Commercial Law from the University of "Los Andes" Law School with a Masters degree in Law from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE), specializing in Computing and Economic Law (2000). Mr. Remolina is also co-author and coordinator of the books "Internet, e-commerce and Telecommunications" (2002), "Internet and Telecommunications Law" (2003) and "Ecommerce" (2005). Co-founder and director of the "Law, communications and new technologies review" (GECTI. University of "Los Andes"). Nelson currently teaches at University of "Los Andes" Law School the following courses: "Computer Law", "Ecommerce Law", "Negotiable Instruments" and "Commercial Law".

Carlos Reusser Monsálvez, Coordinador Académico Programa de Magíster en Derecho de la Informática y de las Telecomunicaciones, Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Chile (Chile).

 

Katitza Rodríguez Pereda, EPIC (Perú).

Katitza Rodríguez Pereda is International Policy Fellow at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). Her work at EPIC is focused on co-editing the first Spanish version of Privacy and Human Rights Report 2004, EPIC's international survey of privacy laws and developments in the world. She is also responsible for liaising with data protection authorities, policymakers and civil society organizations in Spain and Latin America.

Katitza's issue areas include data protection and digital copyright. She lectures at international seminars and universities on Internet law issues including privacy, data protection and digital copyright. She graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Lima, with studies in e-Commerce Project Management at the Escuela Superior de Administración de Negocios - ESAN, and data protection at the University of Murcia, Spain.

Katitza serves on the Advisory Board of Privacy International and is a member of the Board of Directors of CPSR-Perú, where she advises policymakers on the impact of intellectual property legislation in the Free Trade Agreement between the USA and Peru, Ecuador and Colombia and in the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). She also participated in the first phase of the World Summit of the Information Society (WSIS).

She has organized training for Human Rights NGOs on privacy and secure communications in Mexico, Peru and Colombia.

Andrés Trujillo, Abogado de la Gerencia Legal de Telecomunicaciones de Telefónica Móviles (Colombia).

 

Julio César Vega Gómez, Subdirector de Normatividad de Comercio Electrónico, Secretaría de Economía (México).

 

Juan Manuel Villaveces, President, Computec. (COLOMBIA)