Conference: The Technology of Privacy

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
A Conversation with FTC Commissioner Julie Brill	9:30am - 10:15am
Julie Brill Commissioner Federal Trade Commission Moderator Julia Angwin Journalist and Author The Wall Street Journal
Panel One: Threats and Benefits of New Technologies	10:15am - 11:30am
Moderator Scott Peppet Professor of Law University of Colorado Presenters Ryan Calo Assistant Professor of Law University of Washington Ashkan Soltani Independent Privacy and Security Researcher and Consultant Discussants Tracy Gray Partner Holland & Hart Todd Hinnen Partner Perkins Coie 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 Helen Nissenbaum Professor New York University Discussants Bryan Cunningham Senior Counsel Palantir Technologies Scott Shipman Associate General Counsel, Global Privacy Leader eBay Inc.
Break	3:15pm - 3:30pm
Panel Four: Big Data	3:30pm - 4:35pm
Moderator Paul Ohm Associate Professor of Law University of Colorado Presenter Omer Tene Vice Dean College of Management School of Law, Rishon Le Zion, Israel Discussants Simon Krauss Deputy General Counsel Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. Ryan McIntyre Managing Director Foundry Group Frank Torres Director of Consumer Affairs Microsoft Corporation
Concluding Remarks	4:35pm - 5:00pm
Peter Swire Co-Chair W3C Tracking Protection Working Group Professor of Law Ohio State University Moderator Paul Ohm Associate Professor of Law University of Colorado

Event Details

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