Public Voice Roundtable
Consumers and Privacy in South America
Buenos Aires
April 16, 2004
Objectives:
Promote the dialogue between consumer protection organizations,
experts in consumer protection and privacy law and government
data protection agencies.
Organizers:
Electronic Privacy Information Center (USA)
Consumers International (Oficina para América latina y
el Caribe) (Chile)
Foro de Habeas Data (Argentina)
Instituto de Derecho del Consumidor del Colegio Publico de Abogados
de la Capital Federal (Argentina)
Date:
April 16, 2004 - 9h00-17h30.
Location:
Colegio Publico de Abogados de la Capital Federal
Corrientes 1441 - Ciudad de Buenos Aires - Argentina
Agenda
9:00-9:15: Welcome and presentation of experts
9:15-11:00: Panel 1 - Recent developments in South America in
the field of privacy and consumer protection
a) Relationships between consumer protection law and privacy law
Dr. Horacio Bernsten, Instituto de Derecho del Consumidor del
Colegio Público (ARGENTINA)
Dra. Liliana Schvartz, Instituto de Derecho del Consumidor del
Colegio Público (ARGENTINA)
Debate
b) Consumers International's experience with privacy (Survey 2000)
Antonino Serra, Consumers International-America Latina y el Caribe
(CHILE)
c) The first spam case in Argentina
Dr. Gustavo Tanus, www.protecciondedatos.com.ar; iCAUCE, Asuntos
legales (ARGENTINA)
Dr. Pablo A. Palazzi, Foro de Habeas Data (ARGENTINA)
Eduardo Mercovich, iCAUCE.Ar (ARGENTINA)
d) The "ChoicePoint" case
Marc Rotenberg, EPIC (USA)
Katitza Rodriguez, Privaterra & CPSR-Perú (PERU)
Pablo A. Palazzi, Foro de Habeas Data (ARGENTINA)
Alejandra Gils Carbó, Attorney General's Office (ARGENTINA)
e) Recent developments in Peru
Katitza Rodriguez, Privaterra & CPSR-Perú (PERU)
11:30-12:30: Panel 2 - Work of public interest groups in South
America
- Katitza Rodriguez, Privaterra & CPSR-Perú (PERU)
- Paulina Murillo, Tribuna de Consumidores (ECUADOR)
- Marcelo Sodré, IDEC (BRAZIL)
- Crisólogo Cáceres, ASPEC (PERU)
- Giovani Fletcher, IPADECU (PANAMA)
12:30-14:00: Lunch
14:00 - 14:45: Panel 3 - Relationships between consumer protection
groups, privacy watchdogs and government data protection authorities
The US perspective, Pablo Zylberglait or Hugh Stevenson, Federal
Trade Commission (USA).
The Argentine perspective, Alejandra Gils Carbó, Attorney
General's Office (ARGENTINA).
Debate
15:00 - 15:45: Panel 4 - The OECD and APEC Privacy Guidelines
Marc Rotenberg, EPIC (USA)
Antonino Serra, Consumers International (CHILE)
16:15-17:30: Panel 5 - Future developments - The work ahead in
privacy
Chairs:
Marc Rotenberg, EPIC (USA)
Pablo Palazzi, Foro de Habeas Data (ARGENTINA)
a) Implementation of the Argentine Data Protection Act
Pablo Segura or Esteban Ruiz Martinez, Data Protection Agency
(ARGENTINA)
Gabriel Martínez Medrano, Attorney-at-law (ARGENTINA)
b) Airline privacy:
Marc Rotenberg, EPIC (USA)
Verónica Perez Asinari, FUNDP (BELGIUM)
c) Spam in South America:
Renato Jijena Leiva (CHILE)
Debate
