Privacy International

Privacy International (PI) is a human rights group formed in 1990 as a watchdog on surveillance by governments and corporations. PI is based in London, England, and has an office in Washington, D.C. PI has conducted campaigns throughout the world on issues ranging from wiretapping and national security, to ID cards, video surveillance, data matching, police information systems, medical privacy, freedom of information laws, and freedom of expression.


 * Simon Davies, Founder and Director

Also see: privacy.

International Advisory Board
Accessed July 2008:

ARGENTINA
 * Eduardo Bertoni
 * Carlos G. Gregorio
 * Pablo Palazzi

AUSTRALIA
 * Jason Catlett
 * Roger Clarke

AUSTRIA
 * Erich Moechel

BRAZIL
 * Carlos Alfonso - Information Network for the Third Sector

BULGARIA
 * Gergana Jouleva

CANADA
 * David Flaherty
 * Philippa Lawson
 * Micheal Vonn

CHILE
 * Antonino Serra Cambaceres

CZECH REPUBLIC
 * Marek Tichy

DENMARK
 * Stephan Engberg
 * Rikke Frank Joergensen

ETHIOPIA
 * Mercy Wambui

FRANCE
 * Jerome Thorel

GERMANY
 * Detlef Nogala

HUNGARY
 * Zoltan Galantai
 * Laszlo Majtényi
 * Ivan Szekelyi

IRELAND
 * TJ McIntyre

ISRAEL
 * Ruth Gavison - President, Association for Civil Rights in Israel

ITALY
 * Diego Latella
 * Andrea Monti
 * Stefano Rodota

JAPAN
 * Yukiko Miki
 * Toshimaru Ogura
 * Gohsuke Takama

MALAYSIA
 * Stephen Gan

MEXICO
 * Issa Luna Pla

THE NETHERLANDS
 * Sophie In't Veld

PAKISTAN
 * Shahzad Ahmad

PERU
 * Katitza Rodriguez

PHILIPPINES
 * Malou Mangahas - Board member, [[Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
 * Al Alegre - Executive Director - The Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA)

RUSSIA
 * Sergei Smirnov - Director, Human Rights Network

SERBIA
 * Slobodan Markovic - President, Center for Internet Development

SLOVENIA
 * Breda Kutin

SOUTH AFRICA
 * Anriette Esterhuysen

SOUTH KOREA
 * Della Chang

SPAIN
 * Rafael Fernandez Calvo

SWEDEN
 * Alberto Escudero-Pascual

SWITZERLAND
 * Herbert Burkert

UKRAINE
 * Andreij Pazuk
 * Roman Romanov

UNITED KINGDOM
 * Yaman Akdeniz
 * Phil Booth - Director, No2ID
 * Caspar Bowden - Privacy specialist, Microsoft, EMEA
 * Heather Brooke
 * Ian Brown
 * Tony Bunyan
 * Shami Chakrabarti
 * Daniel Cooper - Senior Counsel, Covington & Burling
 * Terri Dowty
 * Anna Fielder
 * Wendy Grossman
 * Malcolm Hutty
 * Dave Jones - Indymedia
 * Earl of Northesk
 * Peter Noorlander - Article 19
 * Harold Pinter
 * Judith Vidal-Hall - Former Editor of Index on Censorship
 * Helen Wallace
 * Edgar Whitley

UNITED STATES
 * Bob Barr
 * Noam Chomsky
 * Beth Givens
 * Deborah Hurley
 * Bruce Koball
 * Wayne Madsen
 * Marc Rotenberg
 * Barbara Simons
 * Robert Ellis Smith
 * Barry Steinhardt

URUGUAY
 * Sylvia Cadena

VENEZUELA
 * Edmundo Vitale

Contact information
Privacy International London Headquarters 2nd Floor, Lancaster House, 33 Islington High Street, London N1 9LH, UK 07947 778247 (from UK) + 44- 7947 778247 (outside UK)

Privacy International Washington Office 1718 Connecticut Ave, NW Suite 200 Washington, DC 20009 USA 1-202-483-1217 (phone) 1-202-483-1248 (fax)

Email: privacyint@privacy.org