Program

The Internet, cellphone and video are essential to how we communicate now. Massive numbers of people put themselves on display in weblogs and on sites like Flickr, MySpace and YouTube. A “second life” is being marketed under the buzzword Web 2.0.

Huge quantities of data are available—often made public by the subjects themselves, though mostly with hardly a clue about the potential consequences of having done so. In the digital world, is it even possible to enforce our fundamental rights to the protection of our personal information and our private sphere? What exactly does it mean to have a fundamental right to information? How is the private sphere changing in the transparent world of digital media?

2:30 PM Workshops with Expert Briefings

1. Social Risks of Public Registries
Chair: Michael Nentwich, Austrian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Technology Assessment
Speakers:
Wolfgang Heufler, attorney, Vienna
Dietmar Jahnel, University of Salzburg
Moderator: Michael Reiter, judge, Vienna

2. Data Retention
Chair: Susanne Reindl, Department of Criminal Law, University of Vienna
Speakers:
Franz Schmidbauer, judge, Salzburg
Klaus Steinmaurer, T-Mobile, Vienna
Moderator: Christian Mayer, public prosecutor, Vienna

3. The Right to Information
Chair: Dragana Damjanovic, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
Speakers:
Roland Belfin, RTR – Austrian Federal Broadcasting & Telecommunications Regulatory Corporation, Vienna
Bernhard Karning, Austrian Federal Chancellery, Vienna
Alfred Ruzicka, Austrian Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology
Moderator: Christian Hubmer, trainee judge, Linz

4. Video Surveillance
Chair: Hannes Tretter, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Human Rights
Speakers:
Margot Artner, attorney, Vienna
Walter Peissl, Austrian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Technology Assessment
Thomas Tauscher, entrepreneur in the electronics sector, Vienna
Moderator: Britta Tichy-Martin, judge, Vienna

4:30–5 PM Coffee Break

5 PM Panel with Presentations by the Workshop Leaders
Moderator: Hans-Peter Lehofer, Higher Administrative Court, Vienna

6 PM Conclusion