With each passing year, information privacy law becomes a larger and more important subject of legal scholarship, practice, policymaking, and popular attention. The key driving force explaining this shift is the breakneck pace of technology. Consider only a few of the fields of technology growing at an explosive rate and putting new pressures on privacy: robotics, biometrics, data analytics, smart phones, environmental sensing, facial recognition, and social networks. In every one of these areas, and more, fundamental shifts in the type and amount of information we collect has put pressure on individual privacy. New business models spring up constantly that use information in new, and newly invasive, ways. Technologists are locked in arms races related to efforts to manage the collection, storage, and processing of personal information in ways that either threaten or protect individual privacy concerns.
Join us in Boulder, Colorado, on Friday, January 11, 2013, as we discuss the "Technology of Privacy." This is the Fifth Annual Silicon Flatirons conference on privacy, and it connects closely with last year's event on the Economics of Privacy. Academics, policymakers, privacy advocates, and practitioners will come together to discuss the changes in the state of the art of privacy and technology, and focus on what it means for policymaking and legal practice in particular.
Panelists and keynote speakers will consider questions such as: what are the latest cutting-edge advances in the technology of privacy, and can we forecast what will come next? How much promise does the idea of "privacy by design" hold, and how can we improve on the idea? What have we learned from the debate over the Do Not Track flag, and what do the results of that development mean for future multistakeholder solutions to privacy problems? What should we make of the rise of Big Data, and how will it raise new challenges or possibilities?
Full Agenda Details
Welcome
9:15am - 9:30am
Scott Peppet
Professor of Law
University of Colorado
Phil Weiser
Dean
University of Colorado Law School
Executive Director
Silicon Flatirons Center
Rob Sherman
Manager of Privacy and Public Policy
Facebook
Lunch
11:30am - 12:30pm
Panel Two: The Privacy Arms Race and Do Not Track
12:30pm - 1:45pm
Moderator
Douglas Sicker
DBC Endowed Professor, Computer Science
Director, Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program
University of Colorado
Presenters
Aleecia McDonald
Fellow
Stanford Center for Internet and Society
Daniel Weitzner
Principal Research Scientist
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT
Discussants
David Campbell
Founder and Principal Consultant
Electric Alchemy
Peter Eckersley
Technology Projects Director
Electronic Frontier Foundation
John Verdi
Director of Privacy Initiatives
Office of Policy Analysis and Development (OPAD)
National Telecommunications & Information Administration
U.S. Department of Commerce
Panel Three: Values-in-Design and Privacy by Design
1:45pm - 3:15pm
Moderator
Harry Surden
Associate Professor of Law
University of Colorado
Presenters
Annie Anton
Professor and Chair, School of Interactive Computing
Georgia Tech
Deirdre Mulligan
Professor of Law
UC Berkeley School of Information
Faculty Director
Berkeley Center for Law & Technology