There is no limit to perfection

Dear Colleagues,

Our restless Ministry of Information ia to begin a new campaign for perfection. As it turned out to be, there was  a tender, a very few people were knew about, under which some scholars received a grant for research of international and national media legislation. (As if there were not enough super-priority studies!)

In August, media NGOs and lawyers of TV companies met with the head of this group. We cannot say for the others, but after the meeting Adil Soz send all information it had to him -  from the memorandums of Article 19 to recommendations based on comparison with the group's own concepts.

The new meeting is scheduled for tomorrow, September 5. The first results of the research are promised to be presented. "Suggested topics for discussion at the meeting." There are 9 topics and here are the most interesting:

"1. In the field of  the state's rights:

- to formalise organization and protect of media pluralism as the duty of the state;

- to participate in strengthening  information culture and counteracting the manipulation of information through the development of compulsory state standards of education;

- to supplement of the system of media principles with the principles of pluralism, independence of editorial policy, and non-discrimination.

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4. In the area of a more precise balance between the rights to disseminate  information and  privacy protection:

- to include the notions of "public figure" and "journalistic investigation" into the Mass Media Law;

- to eliminate the possibility of publishing private images and information by using the  images and information previously posted as publicly available without the consent of the depicted or described person;

- to include a short-term and insignificant volume of publication of images in total volume of media products as a basis for publishing images without consent;

- to eliminate the possibility of publishing personal or private data of non-public figures;

- to propose to secure the right of persons to apply to media and legal bodies for  preventive injunction of dissemination of information related to them.

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7. In the field of personal data protection:

- to propose to secure the right of persons to be forgotten and to demand its observance  from media and owners of Internet resources with the possibility go through the courts  

The meeting will begin at 10 AM in Almaty, hotel Kazakhstan, conference hall Zhambyl. If you have something to say or want to listen, please come!