Wednesday/Thursday, 15/16 September 2004
Auditorium Maximum, Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich


Everything under control?

Europe's foremost event concerning privacy and information security with more than 20 leading experts and institutions for all decision-makers, project managers and specialists in the fields of technology, compliance, risk management, human resources, marketing and consultancy, for IT and data protection officers working in business, politics and public administration, as well as for all those who want to learn more about data protection and information security.

  • Total surveillance or blind trust? Conflict potential between employers and employees
  • Is "whistleblowing" in the interest of corporate governance? Do the "traitors"
    need better protection, or do we need better protection against them?
  • Security and freedom: transatlantic differences
  • Firsthand reports from business and public administration on the subjects
    of control, surveillance, security and data protection
More than 20 high-caliber speakers and panelists, among others:
  • Dr Johann Bizer, Schleswig-Holstein Independent Centre for Data Protection, Kiel/Germany
  • Prof Thomas Geiser, Research Group for Labour and Labour Law, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen/Switzerland
  • Prof Gudela Grote, Institute of Labour Psychology, ETH Zurich, Zurich/Switzerland
  • Dr Gret Haller, publicist, author of Die Grenzen der Solidarität, Europa und die USA
    im Umgang mit Staat, Nation und Religion, (The Limits of Solidarity: State, Nation and Religion in Europe and the US), Berne/Switzerland
  • André Kudelski, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Kudelski Group, Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne/Switzerland
  • PD Dr Hannes P. Lubich, Private Lecturer, ETH Zurich, Computer Associates AG, Kloten/Switzerland
  • David Nussbaum, Private Lecturer, ETH Zurich, Computer Associates AG, Kloten/Switzerland
  • Prof Günther Ortmann, Helmut Schmidt University – Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg, Hamburg/Germany
  • Prof Spiros Simitis, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Chairman of the National Ethics Council, Frankfurt am Main and Berlin/Germany

10% "early booking discount" on all prices in accordance with the "terms and conditions" for participants who apply no later than 31 July 2004.

Annual subscription 2005 for digma, the magazine for data law and information security, included in conference fee (except for participants who are already digma subscribers and benefit from the appropriate discount).
or: Stiftung für Datenschutz und Informationssicherheit (Foundation for Privacy and Information security), Branch office, Kirschgartenstrasse 7, P.O.Box, CH-4010 Basel/Switzerland,
fon +41 (61) 270 1770, fax +41 (61) 270 1771, e-mail: symposium@privacy-security.ch

Date for your diary:
Symposium on Privacy and Security 2005: 31 August–1 September 2005

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