Madrid and Berlin, trying to find workable approaches

Here’s an interesting article about the day-to-day challenges and contradictions of national laws in the context of the global Internet (ok, it does use some of us Google guys as unhappy examples, but just to make a valid point):

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=aAv2iLcBnqtI

At the International Data Protection Commissioners' Conference in Madrid, I added my voice to support the development of global privacy standards, as I've done for several years. I can’t think of a better way forward than trying to develop a more global approach to privacy standards internationally. Here's one example (in Spanish):

http://www.expansion.com/2009/11/12/juridico/entrevistas/1258051264.html

I’m off to Berlin now. Germany is one of those places where I feel the need to listen more than talk. I'll blog about what I learn afterwards.