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“Formulating a New Approach to Trust and Privacy in the Information Age” will be held in Sydney on 4 December 2007 at the State Library of New South Wales.

Building on the success of the first conference on the same topic, held earlier this year at NSW Parliament House, the Privacy & Trust Partnership is convening this seminar with an aim to develop a best practice approach to trust and privacy regulation for the information age. The core objectives of the project are to:

• engage in robust and sustained discussion about privacy, recognising that the privacy environment is changing in the information age; and
• develop an approach that allows information to create economic value for business and consumers, while gaining consumer trust and protecting consumers from harm.

• Regulation – what regulatory framework is needed to maintain best privacy practice, complement economic drivers and mitigate privacy risks?
• Privacy Principles – what privacy principles are needed in the information age: are new principles required; and are any underperforming?
• Flexibility – how can the privacy regulation framework support innovation and the way personal information is used liked / comfortable?
• Enforcement – what mechanisms will encourage good behaviour from businesses,  provide strong action when data users fail or do not comply and make an effective contribution to a safety net for individuals?