Civil Society groups call for stronger privacy protections worldwide

CIPPIC joined dozens of other civil society groups from around the world in a Declaration calling on Privacy Commissioners to take more aggressive action to protect individual privacy vis-a-vis the state and commercial entities, in light of "the creation of an unprecedented infrastructure for the global surveillance of individuals and groups" and the failure of legal systems to keep pace with new technologies.  The Privacy Commissioners were gathered in Montreal, Quebec for their annual conference.