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An
International group of independent researchers attending
the Word Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) has discovered
important technical and legal flaws in the security system
used to control access to the UN Summit.
The
system not only fails to guarantee the promised high levels
of security but also introduces the very real possibility
of constant surveillance of the representatives of the
civil society breaking the European, Swiss and UN conventions
in data protection.
During
the press conference we will explain how the system fails
to guarantee the promised high levels of security and introduces
a real threat for the representatives of civil society,
many of whom are critical of certain governments and regimes.
That
a system like this gets implemented without a transparent
and open discussion amounts to a real threat for the participants
themselves, and for our Information Society as a whole.
Website: http://www.contra.info/wsis
SPEAKERS:
Ass.
Prof. Dr Alberto Escudero-Pascual, Researcher
in Computer Security and Privacy, Royal Institute of
Technology, Sweden (English, Spanish) Tel: + 41
796075733, +46 702867989
George Danezis, Research in privacy enhancing technologies
and computer security, Cambridge University, UK (French, Greek, English)
Stephane
Koch, President Internet Society, Executive
Master of Economic Crime Investigations (French, English)
Tel: +41 79 607 57 33 |
