Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 08:34:02 -0500 From: Robert Hettinga Subject: DCSB: Roland Meuller; The European Directive on Privacy The Digital Commerce Society of Boston Presents Roland Meuller; Secunet, Inc. The European Directive on Privacy and its Implications to U.S. Companies Tuesday, February 2nd, 1999 12 - 2 PM The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston One Federal Street, Boston, MA The European Union has published a directive on privacy, which became valid on the 25th of October, 1998. The intention of this directive was to align the different national laws on Data Protection and Privacy and to ensure these fundamental privacy rights for everyone in the E.U. The directive requires companies outside of the E.U. doing business with E.U. individuals and companies to take responsibility for protecting all personal data: all data that refer to individuals such as employees, suppliers, vendors, customers. These measures must be in place on a legal, an organizational, and a technical level to avoid misuse of these data. The efforts necessary are not outstanding, they're mainly good business practice -- with the exception of certain contractual matters. Obviously, U.S. companies not fulfilling these requirements and not willing to adopt them will have problems doing business with E.U. companies. Sanctions may go from penalty fees up to the exclusion of business. The E.U. is undertaking these efforts to bring progress in the initiative on privacy as expressed in the G 7 resolutions and the OECD guidelines. This talk will show that the requirements stated in the E.U. privacy directive do not present a new obstacles to US companies doing business in Europe, but are a chance to build trust for doing electronic business. Roland Mueller is Director of Network Security Technologies and Services of Secunet, Inc., an Austin-based firm that is a strategic partner of Berkom USA. Mr. Mueller was most recently a Technical Manager for Daimler-Benz. In this capacity, he was repsonsible for the technical installation, assessment and management of the Daimler-Benz privacy and security policy. He was also a member of a project group responsible for protecting the board of directors and management from IT fraud and increasing awareness of that the risk of IT fraud at every level throughout the organization. Prior to joining Daimler-Benz, Mr. Mueller worked as a manager for technical security matters in the Department of Data Protection and IT Security of Debis Systemhaus GmbH. Debis Systemhaus is Germany's largest independent information technology (IT) service provider and is a subsidiary of Daimler-Benz. After serving in the German Army for eight years as a surveyor, and completing his master's degree at Friedrich-Alexander-University in Computer Science, Mr. Mueller served as a scientist at the University of Erlangen Nurnberg, where he was responsible for WAN security projects. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Friedrich-Alexander-University in Erlangen Nurnberg. This meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held on Tuesday, February 2, 1999, from 12pm - 2pm at the Downtown Branch of the Harvard Club of Boston, on One Federal Street. The price for lunch is $32.50. This price includes lunch, room rental, various A/V hardware, and the speakers' lunch. The Harvard Club *does* have dress code: jackets and ties for men (and no sneakers or jeans), and "appropriate business attire" (whatever that means), for women. Fair warning: since we purchase these luncheons in advance, we will be unable to refund the price of your lunch if the Club finds you in violation of the dress code. We need to receive a company check, or money order, (or, if we *really* know you, a personal check) payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", by Saturday, January 30th, or you won't be on the list for lunch. Checks payable to anyone else but The Harvard Club of Boston will have to be sent back. Checks should be sent to Robert Hettinga, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02131. Again, they *must* be made payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", in the amount of $32.50. Please include your e-mail address, so that we can send you a confirmation If anyone has questions, or has a problem with these arrangements (We've had to work with glacial A/P departments more than once, for instance), please let us know via e-mail, and we'll see if we can work something out. Upcoming speakers for DCSB are: March Jonathan Rusch, USDOJ Internet Fraud We are actively searching for future speakers. If you are in Boston on the first Tuesday of the month, and you would like to make a presentation to the Society, please send e-mail to the DCSB Program Commmittee, care of Robert Hettinga, . For more information about the Digital Commerce Society of Boston, send "info dcsb" in the body of a message to . If you want to subscribe to the DCSB e-mail list, send "subscribe dcsb" in the body of a message to . We look forward to seeing you there! Cheers, Robert Hettinga Moderator, The Digital Commerce Society of Boston ----------------- Robert A. 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