"Google will [today] on Friday attempt to take the high ground in the debate over internet privacy, by calling for new international laws to be set up to protect personal information online."

Mr. Peter Fleischer, global privacy counsel for Google will report the new guidelines to Unesco members at conference in Strasbourg.

The Financial Times article is here:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d969a326-6226-11dc-bdf6-0000779fd2ac,dwp_uuid=e8477cc4-c820-11db-b0dc-000b5df10621.html

He has stated the following to Reuters:
"the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Privacy Framework principles governing the use of personal data in commercial contexts represented the baseline privacy rules."
http://www.reuters.com/article/governmentFilingsNews/idUSN1340909520070914

This Heise article has a conference link pointing to Unesco portal too:
"Google calls for global data protection at UNESCO conference"
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/96006

I.e. here:
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=24772&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

This doesn't have any comments, is this debate the way to improve the privacy or only one conference which people will forgot..

Seth Finkelstein's comment:

<<In other news, foxes have called on farmers to agree to a basic set of henhouse privacy rules. They propose to standardize on "APEC principles" (Association of Poultry Eating Carnivores).>>
http://sethf.com/infothought/blog/

Seth points to this post for more:
http://crookedtimber.org/2007/09/15/google-and-new-international-privacy-rules/

Thanks very much for these!