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Peter Ford

Peter Ford provides consultancy services in privacy, security and telecommunications. In July, 2004, he retired from the position of First Assistant Secretary, Information and Security Law Division of the Australian Attorney-General's Department. The Division was formed in February 1997 and was responsible for policy relating to privacy, freedom of information, intellectual property, legal aspects of electronic commerce and support to the Attorney-General on national security, critical infrastructure protection and electronic surveillance aspects of law enforcement policy. Prior to that, he worked in areas of human rights, court administration, administrative law, freedom of information and constitutional law. As Divisional Head, he served as Agency Coordinator, a statutory position under the Telecommunications Act 1991, and also served on the Government Public Key Authority, the National Electronic Authentication Council, the Board of CrimTrac and the Privacy Advisory Committee.

Between 2000 and 2003 Peter chaired the OECD Working Party on Information Security and Privacy which, in 2002, produced the OECD Guidelines for the Security of Information Systems and Networks: Towards a Culture of Security. He also chaired the APEC Privacy Sub-Group, which produced the APEC Privacy Framework and was Vice-Chair of the APEC Electronic Commerce Steering Group with responsibilities for confidence and trust building measures until May 2004.

He supervised the development of Australia's private sector privacy legislation and legislative reforms to the law and policy on electronic commerce, copyright, counter-terrorism, critical infrastructure protection and national security. He has published articles in the areas of privacy, human rights, telecommunications interception and constitutional law. From March 2004 until his retirement in July 2004, he acted as Deputy Secretary, with responsibility for Criminal Justice and Security. Since retirement, he has been engaged by the APEC Electronic Commerce Steering Committee to provide seminars to officials of developing economies on implementing the APEC Privacy Framework.

Peter has a BA (Univ. of Qld.), LL.B. (Australian National University) and an M.Phil. (Glasgow)