Numerous computing applications have been proposed, and in some cases implemented, that have the potential of being invasive of privacy. Examples range from commercially produced tags using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology to governmental programs such as Total Information Awareness. We will discuss examples of computer science research and of applications of computing technology that raise privacy and civil liberties issues.

We shall attempt to answer the following questions: 1. Is technology "neutral"? Should decisions about the applications of technology be left solely to the marketplace, the government, policy makers, and/or the law? Do the people developing the technology have any ethical, moral, or legal responsibilities regarding it subsequent use? What about businesses that market the technology? 2. Is it possible or even desirable to raise awareness of privacy and civil liberties issues among CS researchers and funders of CS research? Do researchers and/or funders have any ethical responsibilities in trying to raise awareness? 3. Is it possible to devise technologies that address privacy and civil liberties concerns? If so, what strategies might be effective in providing or increasing funding for the development of such technologies? Is there a risk in trying to develop "ameliorating" technologies? Examples? 4. Have there been examples of CS R&D projects where such issues have been successfully addressed? 5. Are there any research or development projects on which people should refuse to work? What is the role of the individual? How do you decide? What kinds of penalties might society extract? Examples?

Organizer: Barbara Simons, ACM;
Presenters: Ruzena Bajcsy, University of California, Berkeley; Susan Landau, Senior Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems Inc.: "Science -- and Thinking About Ethical Solutions"; Terry Winograd, Stanford University; Philippe Golle, Xerox Parc; Marcia Hofmann, EPIC; David Culler, University of California, Berkeley; Andrew Grosso, Andrew Grosso & Associates

Materials:
Ruzena Bajcsy's powerpoint: CITRIS Overview
Philippe Golle's Powerpoint: Protecting Privacy in Terrorist Tracking Applications
Marcia Hoffman's powerpoint: CAPPS II: A Case Study in Homeland Security Use of Technology
CFP2004 General Discussion Blog

Identity issues have become part of daily business and the daily news for individuals around the world. New identification and authentication technologies are often complex and counter-intuitive. Privacy is often viewed as a barrier to better authentication and identification. But do they privacy and authentication to be in tension?

This tutorial will cover the terminology, standards, current controversies and best practices in privacy and authentication. We will explore E-Authentication, biometrics, smart cards, datamining, and pattern analysis. We will consider how some of the current authentication technologies address privacy. Commercial Web services, E-Government, transportation security, and identity fraud issues will be addressed.

Panelists: Ari Schwartz, Center for Democracy & Technology; Paula Arcioni, New Jersey Office of Information Technology; Susan Crawford, Cardozo Law School; Susan Landau, Sun Microsystems Research; Khaja Ahmed, CTO of Passport Project, Microsoft; Marty Abrams, Executive Director, Center for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams LLP; Lara Flint, Center for Democracy & Technology; Marcia Hofmann, EPIC; Jennifer Barrett, Chief Privacy Officer/Privacy Team Leader, Acxiom Corporation

Materials:
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This half-day tutorial workshop will give you hands-on experience in network surveillance. It will provide a high-level overview of network basics, including the OSI layer model, as a prologue to getting down and dirty with packet sniffing, wireless network scanners, intercepting encrypted protocol transmissions, port scanning, and more.

We'll cover everything from basic terminology to live demonstrations of how networks can be spied on, including packet sniffing, intercepting traffic, "man-in-the-middle" attacks, SSL spoofing, and more, as well as information and demonstrations on how common defense mechanisms work to protect your networks against passive and active surveillance.

Panelists: Chris Palmer, Staff Technologist, EFF; Seth Schoen, Staff Technologist, EFF; Dan Silverstein, UC Berkeley

Materials:
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Panelists: Françoise Gilbert, IT Law Group, "Legal Issues"; Jodie Westby, The Work-IT Group; Mike Jerbic, Trusted Systems Consulting

Materials:
Mike Jerbic PDF

CFP2004 General Discussion Blog

Panelists: Lee Tien, EFF; Richard M. Smith; Linda Ackerman, Staff Counsel, PrivacyActivism; Beth Givens, Director, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse; Ross Stapleton-Gray

Materials:
Linda Ackerman & Katherine Albrecht's slides
Beth Givens' Powerpoint
Richard Smith's Slides at http://www.computerbytesman.com/privacy/cfp2004/index.htm [local .zip]
Ross Stapleton-Gray's Powerpoint
Lee Tien: RFID: Government Use + Economic and Security Issues and Government RFID Use Table

CFP2004 General Discussion Blog

Mike Godwin, Senior Technology Counsel, Public Knowledge, will teach the basics of constitutional law in cyberspace, with an emphasis on free-speech and privacy issues. This tutorial is designed to inform non-lawyers and lawyers alike about the constitutional issues that underlie computer-crime and computer civil-liberties cases, as well as about the policy issues relating to intellectual property and jurisdiction on the Net. Its goal is to prepare attendees to understand the full range of constitutional and civil-liberties issues discussed at the main panels and presentations at CFP2004, with particular emphasis this year on the intersection of copyright law, constitutional law, and technology policy.

Presenter: Mike Godwin, Senior Technology Counsel, Public Knowledge, has done evolving versions of this tutorial at 11 different CFP conferences (sometimes for CLE credit and sometimes not), and the tutorial has continued to be well-subscribed and highly rated.

Materials:
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Primer on telecommunications law and concepts critical to understanding the scope of the Federal Communication Commission's regulatory authority over the Internet. Covers the original regulation of telephone companies under a "common carrier" model, and the gradual removal of services such as data storage and long-distance service from the framework of monopoly regulation, a process that culminated in the 1996 Telecommunications Act. It will also provide an overview of today's hot regulatory topics. It will introduce the major players: FCC commissioners; relevant congressional commissions; state public utility commissions; & affected industries. It will review the classification of Internet access as unregulated "information services," and explain the practical implications of classification as a regulated "telecommunications service." Finally, it will provide background on debates about broadband Internet access, wireless telephony & networks, including spread-spectrum and smart-radio technology, and voice over IP.

Panelists: Christopher Savage, Cole, Raywid & Braverman; Robert Cannon, Federal Communications Commission

Materials:
Christopher Savage Handouts (PDF)
CFP2004 General Discussion Blog

Research has established that notices need to be relatively short, in a common format and in plain English to work for consumers. However, such notices are, by definition, not complete. This creates liability issues for companies. Sometimes, laws are conflicted over what lawmakers want from organizations giving notice. This tutorial will explore the research, government action on short notices, and the liability issues.

Panelists: Marty Abrams, Center for Information Policy Leadership; Ari Schwartz, Associate Director, Center for Democracy and Technology; Rebecca Richards, Director of Policy, TRUSTe; Susan Henrichsen, California Dept. of Justice; Beth Givens, Executive Director, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse; Ken McEldowney, Executive Director, Consumer Action; Jennifer Barrett, Privacy Team Leader, Acxiom Ken Anderson, Assistant Commissioner for Privacy, Ontario, Canada

Materials:
CFP2004 General Discussion Blog

"The Battle for Accountable Voting Systems"

Touch-screen voting machines store records of cast votes in internal memory, where the voter cannot check them. Because of our system of secret ballots, once the voter leaves the polls there is no way anyone can determine whether the vote captured was what the voter intended. Why should voters trust these machines?

Last December, I drafted a "Resolution on Electronic Voting" stating that every voting system should have a "voter verifiable audit trail," which is a permanent record of the vote that can be checked for accuracy by the voter, and which is saved for a recount if it is required. After many rewrites, I posted the page in January with endorsements from many prominent computer scientists. At that point, I became embroiled in a surprisingly fierce (and time consuming) battle that continues today.

We still don't have an answer for why we should trust electronic voting machines, but a lot of evidence has emerged for why we should NOT.

In this talk, I will discuss the basic principles and issues in electronic voting.

Materials:
David Dill's PowerPoint [local copy]

David Dill Keynote - download audio recording: mp3
David Dill Keynote - stream audio recording: wma | mp3

CFP2004 General Discussion Blog

2004 marks the 40th Anniversary of the '64 Civil Rights Act. This landmark Act outlawed discrimination in public places, required employers to provide equal employment opportunities, and stated that uniform standards for the right to vote must prevail. We will explore the relationship between privacy and civil rights, in light of the anniversary, focusing on the segment of our population who are without computers but constantly subject to computer monitoring. Computer systems have not eliminated discrimination - on the contrary: Discrimination has been grafted into profiling algorithms, taking on airs of impartiality. We will focus on three prominent issues that intersect computing and disadvantaged populations: Homeless Management Information Systems, Credit Scoring, and Biometric Collection of information on recipients of public benefits.

Moderator: Chris Hoofnagle, EPIC
Panelists: Cindy Southworth, National Network to End Domestic Violence; Chance Martin, SF Coalition on the Homeless; Birny Birnbaum, "Insurance Credit Scoring: 21st Century Redlining"; Grace A. Galligher, Coalition of California Welfare Rights Organizations

Materials:
Birny Birnbaum, "Credit Scoring: 21st Century Redlining and the End of Insurance" [pdf]
Cindy Southworth, NNEDV, How Tracking Systems Place Victims at Risk
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Plenary 1 Blog

The FBI is back, insisting that VoIP be subject to the same wiretap-friendly design mandates that apply to the plain old telephone system under the controversial CALEA legislation. The FBI recently filed a petition asking for an FCC rulemaking on the issue. Will the desire to guarantee law enforcement access reach into the core of the Internet? What are the risks of tapping the Net? Can surveillance questions be rationally addressed in the age of terrorism? Leading participants in the debate from law enforcement, civil liberties and industry explore these and related issues.

Moderator: John Morris, Center for Democracy and Technology
Panelists: Jeff Pulver, pulver.com; Lee Tien, EFF; Steve Bellovin, AT&T Lab-Research; Mike Warren, Fiducianet

Materials:
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Plenary 2 Blog

Radio frequency ID (RFID) presents the possibility of an "Internet-for-things", bringing digital information economics and control into the analog, informationally limited, real world. It presents a new set of privacy risks, including the possibility of much more robust and pervasive profiling. To what degree should RFID be subject to regulatory restraints? Can we avoid privacy problems through intelligent technical design now?

Moderator: Jonathan Weinberg, Wayne State University Law School
Panelists: Beth Givens, Director, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse; Elliot Maxwell, Fellow, Center for the Study of American Government, Johns Hopkins; Jackie Griffin, Director, Berkeley Public Library; Ann Brick, Staff Attorney, ACLU of Northern California

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Concurrent 1 Blog

Moderator: Mike Godwin, Senior Technology Counsel, Public Knowledge
Panelists: Xiao Qiang, China Internet Project; Jagdish Parikh, Online Communications Content Coordinator, Human Rights Watch; Mary Wirth, Yahoo!; Dave Del Torto, Cryptorights

Materials:
Jagdish Parikh's slides
Gus Hosein's slides

Concurrent 2 Blog

People use search engines for the vast majority of online content they access - giving a handful of companies the ability to shape what the world sees and thinks about. Alarmingly, and unbeknownst to users, search engine companies effectively censor content in subtle ways, both for commercial reasons and when asked by governments. Ranking technologies provide users with a homogenized handful of sites, and render smaller sites nearly invisible. Search engine results are famously prone to manipulation. Finally, using search engines is more complex than it seems, and general users have difficulty finding the right content. The panel exposes hidden vulnerabilities of these critical gatekeepers to the online world, and considers remedies.

Moderator: Kenneth Neil Cukier, Fellow, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government
Panelists: Prof. Dr. Marcel Machill, Professor for Journalism & International Media Systems, Univ. of Leipzig, Germany, and the Bertelsmann Foundation: "Transparency on the Net: Search Engines and Media Policy"; Andrew McLaughlin, Google; Matthew Hindman, Fellow, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government; Benjamin Edelman, Student, Harvard University: "Empirical Research on Google Omissions"

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Are governments trying to take over the Internet? Are their actions indispensable to bringing the benefits of the information society to all? Or is it something in the murky middle, where the details (and devils!) lie? In Dec. 2003 over 10,000 delegates from governments, industry and activist groups convened in Geneva for the first round of the UN World Summit on the Information Society. There was little harmony on issues - from human rights and the digital divide, to open source software and ICANN. Join us for a meeting to discuss the issues, the stakes and the dangers that will emerge as the world prepares for the final round of the Summit, in Tunisia in 2005.

Moderator: Peter Harter, Managing Principal, The Farrington Group
Panelists: Bertrand De La Chapelle, Founder, Open-WSIS Group; Stephanie Perrin, President, Digital Discretion; David Maher, Chairman of the Board, Public Interest Registry; Esther Dyson; Ralf Bendrath

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Concurrent 4 Blog

Search and analysis of structured and unstructured data races in parallel to the ever increasing volume of information generated globally by people and technology. Technology continually converts analog to digital, adding to the complexity of information. These developments erode security through obscurity individuals have historically enjoyed. This panel will discuss the positive and negative aspects of the business and government activities which capitalize and exploit person-based data.

Moderator: Peter Swire, Professor of Law, Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University
Panelists: Jeff Jonas, SRD; Lara Flint, Center for Democracy and Technology; Stewart Baker, Steptoe & Johnson LLP (and former counsel at National Security Administration); Doug Tygar, Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Materials:
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Plenary 3 Blog

Can online organizing change the outcome of the 2004 elections? From the "open-source" campaign model that briefly propelled Howard Dean to the front of the Democratic pack, to the stunning impact of Moveon.org, American politics is being turned upside down by new and innovative network-centered campaign strategies. Or is it? We will examine recent trends and explore their implications on the 2004 election and American Democracy, discussing what tools and strategies have worked - and failed - in recruiting and mobilizing supporters.

Moderator: Jonah Seiger, Connections Media
Panelists: Bill Pease, Get Active; Wes Boyd, MoveOn.org; Tom Matzzie, AFL-CIO; Myles Weissleder, Vice-President of Communications, Meetup.com

Materials:
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Plenary 4 Blog

This video screening brings back the futuristic promises of the past -- alluring, utopian ideas like domestic robots, ubiquitous networking, telepresence, and intelligent appliances -- and shows how major American corporations appropriated them as their own. Their promise: a bright, affluent future enabled by cybernetics and technology, and they're still singing the same song. We'll counterpose films like CENTURY 21 CALLING, A NATION AT YOUR FINGERTIPS, and MAGIC IN THE AIR with recent futuristic TV commercials from AT&T and IBM. What (if anything) has changed? Why has utopian fantasy become campy anachronism rather than call to action? And would we really want to live in this utopian world, anyway?

Presenter: Rick Prelinger, Prelinger Archives

Materials:
Prelinger Archives at prelinger.com

CFP2004 General Discussion Blog

Privacy International holds the 6th annual US Big Brother awards to celebrate the invaders and champions of privacy. "Orwell" statutes will be presented to the government agencies, companies and initiatives which have done most to invade personal privacy. Brandeis Awards will be given to champions of privacy. The Brandeis Award is named after US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, who described privacy as "the right to be let alone." The awards are given to those have done exemplary work to protect and champion privacy.

Presenter: Andrew Brandt, Senior Associate Editor, PC World

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Is the Patriot Act a foreshadow of things to come, or an aberration soon to be corrected? What are specifics of the Patriot Act and "Patriot II", and their pluses and minuses? What are the courts doing about the Act, and how should computer professionals respond as responsible citizens?

First, a description of the Patriot Act, the proposals in "Patriot II," the history of the various provisions, and a description of court cases that are coming down the pipe. Then a round table discussion as to the pluses and minuses of the Act's purposes and means; where these might lead in the future; and the role of technology in such evolution.

Presenter: Andrew Grosso, Andrew Grosso & Associates

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Organizer: Herkko Hietanen

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MobiloPhobia is part of a series of events and discussions on mobile and locative media, which opened with MobiloTopia at Transmediale (Berlin, DE) exploring the utopian hopes generated by locative media, and will culminate in the Mobile Connections conference and artistic programme at the futuresonic04 festival (Manchester, UK)

Presenters: Dr. Drew Hemment, AHRB Research Fellow in Creative Technologies at University of Salford, UK; Nicola Green, Dept. of Sociology, University of Surrey

Materials:
www.mobileconnections.org
www.futuresonic.com

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The San Francisco Surveillance Camera Players oppose the surveillance of everyday life, in particular the video surveillance of public space, including public transit, streets, and parks. We perform short, silent plays in front of surveillance cameras in public places, to bring attention to and challenge their presence. We also are beginning to map the locations of surveillance cameras in the Bay Area and give occasional walking tours. We will discuss how to identify surveillance cameras, how common they are in the Bay Area, and what some of the issues are (legal, Constitutional, and moral).

A walking tour is also scheduled for the following Saturday, April 24th. It meets at 2pm by the statue in the middle of Union Square in San Francisco (take the BART to Powell Street, then walk three blocks north on Powell).

More information can be found on our website at http://www.survile.org/.

Players: Martin and Bettina

Materials:
www.survile.org

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Recent technology initiatives described as "Trusted Computing" have been very controversial. We'll examine how they work and what their advantages and disadvantages may be from a variety of points of view.

Moderator: Danny Weitzner, W3C and Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT
Panelists: Seth Schoen, Staff Technologist, EFF; David Safford, IBM; Geoffrey Strongin, Platform Security Architect, AMD

Materials:
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Plenary 5 Blog

As governments increase the use of technology and bring functions online for everything from birth certificates, paying taxes, and voting, the software that is used determines the degree of transparency and freedom. Open source proponents claim that open source lets citizen users inspect, improve and redistribute the software freely, and point out that commercial software risks locking up official documents in proprietary formats. But commercial software advocates point out the benefits to a single entity claiming responsibility for their work. What are the risks and benefits to each model?

Moderators: Jennifer M. Urban, Visiting Acting Clinical Professor, University of California Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall); Kenneth Neil Cukier, Fellow, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government
Panelists: Tony Stanco, E-Government; Bernard Benhamou, Director of Forecasting and Internet Governance, E-Government Development Agency, Office of the Prime Minister, France; Jason Matusow, Microsoft; Tom Kalil, Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Science and Technology for UC Berkeley
Special Guest: Eric M. K. Osiakwan, Free and Open Source Software Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA)

Materials:
Tom Kalil powerpoint: "And now for something completely different!"

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Plenary 6 Blog

Wireless networks are exploding in popularity, but are difficult to secure. Locating insecure networks & advertising their locations has become a sport known as "wardriving". We examine the Pen Register Act, the Wiretap Act, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act to evaluate criminal and civil liability which may apply to wardriving.

Moderator: Jennifer Granick, Stanford CIS
Panelists: Steve Schroeder, CCIPS consultant; Simon Byers, AT&T; Kevin Bankston, EFF

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Concurrent 5 Blog

Copyright owners have sued p2p network services, providers of software, ISPs, phone companies, and even venture capitalists who fund p2p companies. While those initial suits were successful, content industries have recently suffered reversals, most notably in their litigation against Streamcast & Grokster. Unable to shut down p2p networks altogether, the music industry has begun to sue individuals who upload music files.

These lawsuits present numerous legal, moral and policy issues. What First Amendment and privacy rights are affected by the RIAA's subpoenas to ISPs' file sharers' identities? How to balance the fact that p2p software has legal uses as well as illegal ones, with the RIAA's claims that it is more efficient, and better business, to sue the p2p software companies rather than users? Or should the RIAA simply find a new business model? This panel will involve a vigorous and wide-ranging debate among advocates of each of these positions, with a focus on the privacy and liberty implications of the recent spate of lawsuits.

Moderator: Mark Lemley, Professor, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, and Of Counsel, Keker & Van Nest.
Panelists: Stacey Dogan, Associate Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law; Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times; Wendy Seltzer, Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Concurrent 6 Blog

Recently, governments have tried a controversial new approach to regulating Internet content: requiring ISPs to block access to content, such as pornography and gambling, before it is delivered to Internet users. Targeting neither the source nor host of the content, this content control instead places the burden of blocking content on the delivering ISP. Yet this approach often leads to the blocking of wholly unrelated content. We'll look at the court decision on the Pennsylvania web blocking law, and other government efforts to control content at the ISP bottleneck.

Panelists: John Morris, Center for Democracy & Technology; Stewart Baker, U.S. Internet Service Providers Association (Steptoe & Johnson); Wolfgang Schulz, University of Hamburg

Materials:
Wolfgang Schulz's slides: "Regulating the Code? Using ISPs to block banned web-sites in Germany" (not for publication or citation)

Concurrent 7 Blog

Data retention of ISP-generated traffic data is a major issue, for privacy protection and also for the enforcement of the right of defense in court. We'll analyse first the difference and similarity between EU and US and, from a technical point of view, at which conditions the ISP retained data might be held reliable in Court.

Presenters: Andrea Monti, Electronic Frontier, Italy; Susan Brenner, University of Dayton School of Law; Cindy Cohn, Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Concurrent 8 Blog

Suing customers appears to be in vogue. But long before the RIAA got in on the action, DirecTV blazed the trail. Today, state "super DMCA" initiatives across the US aim to make "mere possession" of general purpose technologies unlawful, encouraging others to go where only DirecTV has dared to go before. What are the implications for civil liberties and general purpose technologies when lawyers can come after you for "mere possession"?

Moderator: Fred von Lohmann, EFF
Panelists: Jason Schultz, EFF; Albert Zakarian, Esquire, DTVDefense.com; Christian Genetski, Partner, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, Anti-Piracy Counsel for DirecTV; Robert S. Apgood, Attorney at Law, AvantLaw PLLC

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Concurrent 9 Blog

The FCC has long had a role in regulating (or not regulating) the Internet. Recently it has been reviewing that role. This panel will provide an overview of the FCC's current plans and examine the implications for the future of the Internet, focusing not only on concrete regulatory issues but also policy issues about competition, openness, network neutrality, the "end-to-end" principle and the concept of common carriage. Can FCC regulation or regulatory forbearance foster openness, competition, and neutrality?

Moderator: Lee Tien, EFF
Panelists: Chris Savage, Cole, Raywid & Braverman; Robert Cannon, Senior Counsel for Internet Issues (Federal Communication Commission's Office of Plans and Policy); Jeff Pulver, President and CEO, Pulver.com, Inc.; Dan Brenner, Senior Vice President for Law & Regulatory Policy, National Cable & Telecommunications Association; Paul Misener, Vice President, Global Public Policy, Amazon.com; Jonathan Askin, General Counsel to pulver.com

Materials:
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Plenary 7 Blog

While the entertainment industry litigated and lobbied, many observers concluded that p2p is an exciting technology with one significant downside: how to pay authors & artists for their work. The file sharing wars inspired widely divergent proposals for fostering online distribution and paying authors and artists. We'll consider leading alternatives, including digital rights management, compulsory licenses and levies, voluntary collective licensing, and voluntary user payments. We'll focus on nuts & bolts, rather than debating the file-sharing wars. We'll ask which proposals could work. What are their practical advantages & drawbacks? How do they measure consumer demand? How do they affect privacy?

Moderator: Jessica Litman, Wayne State Univ. Law School.
Panelists: Ted Cohen, EMI; Sarah Deutsch, Verizon; Eric Garland, CEO, BigChampagne, LLC; Daniel Gervais, Univ. of Ottawa Faculty of Law; Neil Netanel, UT School of Law; Fred von Lohmann, EFF

Materials:
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Plenary 8 Blog

The Council of Europe Cybercrime Treaty is an international agreement created for the stated purpose of helping police cooperate on crimes that take place on the Internet. Its supporters, including the US DOJ, argue that it is a surgical instrument necessary to allow for international law enforcement cooperation in prosecuting crime on the Net. Opponents say it is a meat axe, requiring signatory nations to cooperate with foreign dictatorships and giving invasive new surveillance powers to law enforcement. While the treaty has broad implications for the wired world, it has received very little attention since 9/11. President Bush recently sent the Treaty to the Senate for ratification, which will rekindle the controversy in the US.

Readings: Two FAQs on the Treaty are available at:
http://www.aclu.org/Privacy/Privacy.cfm?ID=13475&c=131
http://www.cybercrime.gov/COEFAQs.htm

Moderator: Susan Landau, Sun Microsystems Research;
Panelists: Gus Hosein, Fellow, Privacy International; Betty Shave, Computer Crimes and Intellectual Property Section of the US Justice Department; Abraham Sofaer, Hoover Institute; Barry Steinhardt, American Civil Liberties Union

Materials:
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Plenary 9 Blog

EFF established the Pioneer Awards to recognize leaders on the electronic frontier who are extending freedom and innovation in the realm of information technology. This year's ceremony will be held at Chabot Space and Science Center. The event will begin at 6:30pm with a Planetarium show, which will be followed by a catered reception, and the Pioneer Award ceremony itself.

Presenter: Rick Prelinger, Prelinger Archives

Materials:
Prelinger Archives at prelinger.com

CFP2004 General Discussion Blog

Presenter: Edward Hasbrouck, Author, "The Practical Nomad", Hasbrouck.org

Materials:
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Moderator: Yugo Noguchi, Stanford University Law School
Presenters: Qiong Wu, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall); Daniel Benoliel, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall)

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Lawyers and legal activists are invited to brainstorm solutions to the legal hurdles facing any challenge to the USA PATRIOT Act's surveillance provisions. In particular, we'll talk about how to find plaintiffs with standing to challenge surveillance laws that operate in secret, and what legal theories may succeed in the face of a decades-long weakening of Fourth Amendment protections.

After 10-15 minutes of introductory comments from Kevin Bankston outlining the various legal hurdles facing lawyers hoping to challenge the PATRIOT Act's surveillance provisions, attendees will participate in an interactive discussion of innovative approaches and potential solutions to these problems.

Presenter: Kevin Bankston, EFF

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Technologists, developers, policymakers and advocates are invited to a discussion with the HP Chief Privacy Officer and a HP Trusted Systems Lab scientist to explore the needs of developers to design and build privacy-compliant and privacy enabling products and systems. We will focus on ideas that contribute to the practical application of design: tools, training, impact assessments and review guides.

The HP Privacy program has been recognized by many as having an industry-leading privacy policy and practices. We work hard on "walking the talk." The HP Chief Privacy Officer is leading an internal intitative to take operational privacy excellence to our commercial products and services. We're interested in having an "outside looking in" perspective on both classic and novel approaches to "designing in privacy". We are interested in techniques and practices that can be leveraged across the industry.

• What are the best practices in other industries? The worst?
• What do developers need be successful in designing in privacy?
• What are the most useful approaches or tools for developers translating a set of policy requirements to code?
• How can different aspects of privacy controls be built in to allow for flexibility - for health information, financial information, behavior information, sensitive information, anonymized information?
• What pitfalls should be avoided?

Presenters: Barb Lawler, Chief Privacy Officer, Hewlett Packard; Tomas Sander, Research Scientist, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

Materials:
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"Hacktivista" is the story of three University of Toronto students who travel with their professor to Guatemala and Chiapas to work with human rights organizations and activists on Internet security and connectivity. The students call themselves "hacktivists" -- a new breed of social activists who use technology to fight for privacy and freedom of speech. See http://www.citizenlab.org/hacktivista/ for more info.

Presenter: Robert Guerra, consultant to & translator for the documentary, will introduce the documentary & answer questions after the screening.

Materials:
http://www.citizenlab.org/hacktivista/

CFP2004 General Discussion Blog

This session will include a demonstration of a new free/open platform for online deliberation: an asynchronous, web-based tool for group discussion, collaboration, and decision making, which is a project of PIECE (Partnership for Internet Equity and Community Engagement, http://piece.stanford.edu). The platform is aimed at helping grassroots organizations to be more participatory, with a richer environment for online asynchronous meetings than is available in message boards, email lists, and other groupware of which we are aware. We will demonstrate the capabilities of POD and discuss the relationship between its design and the problems of grassroots democracy. The fact that coming to decisions generally requires real-time, face-to-face meetings serves as an excuse for inner-circle decision making, which we hope to undermine through this project. The free/open aspect will also allow groups to control their own online spaces, serving as an antidote to the liberty-threatening policies of commercial providers.

Presenter: Todd Davies, Coordinator, Symbolic Systems Program, Stanford University, and Partnership for Internet Equity and Community Engagement

Materials:
http://piece.stanford.edu

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Presenter: David Chaum

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Moderator: Deirdre K. Mulligan
Announced Panelists: J.C. Cannon, Microsoft; Ari Schwartz, Center for Democracy & Technology; Chris Hoofnagle, Electronic Privacy Information Center; Sonia Arrison, Pacific Research Institute; Sunil Paul, Brightmail; David Link, Technology Counsel, Cal. Sen. Liz Figueroa; Nicole Wong, Senior Compliance Counsel for Google

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Plenary 10 Blog

The US government's use of corporate databases containing personal information on individuals in its effort to identify terrorists has garnered criticism from elected officials, private citizens, and other nations. At the same time, elected officials, think tanks, and those involved in intelligence and law enforcement argue that identifying terrorists requires enhanced access and use of information. We'll consider the current legal framework controlling government access and use of private sector databases, the privacy and security concerns posed by government use of such databases for terrorism purposes, and the possible benefits of government use of such databases.

Moderator: Nick Gillespie, Reason Magazine
Panelists: Jennifer Barrett, Chief Privacy Officer, Acxiom; Bill Scannell, DontSpyOnUs.com; Jim Harper, Privacilla; Nuala O'Connor Kelly, Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Homeland Security

Materials:
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Bill Scannell's Graphic [also available at www.dontspyonus.com]

Plenary 11 Blog

Identity theft often reaches beyond the borders of a single state or country. Recently, for instance, credit card information of US citizens was used to manufacture false cards in Romania, and then the cards were used in the EU. To efficiently combat cybercrime and ID theft, countries must cooperate to create a system of protection & enforcement that goes beyond each country's borders. This session will provide actual examples of national and global identity theft schemes; analyze existing and pending cyber security laws, protections, and initiatives in different countries that address directly or indirectly identity theft; review existing global cybercrime treaties and initiatives, and suggest potential coordinated actions nationally and globally.

Moderator: Françoise Gilbert, Managing Director & Founder, IT Law Group
Panelists: Mark Webber, English Solicitor, Osborne Clarke; Jacques F. Gilbert, Senior Vice-President & Chief Architect, First Data Corporation; Joanne McNabb, Chief Office of Privacy Protection, State of California

Materials:
Joanne McNabb's PowerPoint
Françoise Gilbert's PowerPoint
Jacques Gilbert's slides, "Identity Theft: Technology Aspects"
Mark Webber's PowerPoint

Concurrent 10 Blog

During the course of the conference (or before, if you're less fortunate) you may have been served with a cease-and-desist demand letter making outrageous allegations that your online activities violate the law. The Chilling Effects Clearinghouse (chillingeffects.org) has been collecting and cataloguing these letters for the past two years and, where appropriate, fighting online chill. Panelists from the project will give a weather map from data we've gathered, assessing the climate for online activity: What activities risk being frozen out? What can we do to warm the air?

Panelists: Wendy Seltzer, Intellectual Property Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation; Jennifer M. Urban, Visiting Acting Clinical Professor, University of California Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall): "Two Years of DMCA Takedowns"; Agnes Li, J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School

Materials:
chillingeffects.org

Fake C&Ds Passed Out to CFP Attendees: DMCA 512 notice (pdf) | trademark infringement notice (pdf)

Concurrent 11 Blog

Chillingeffects_JM_Urban.ppt

The 18-24 year-old age group exhibits a vigorous attachment to online community, from p2p networks to IM and text messaging. Will these attachments spill over into the physical, and the political world? Will these attachments stick with youth as their own demographics change? This panel will explore the ways that the Internet has been used to engage youth in politics and in Election 2004.

Moderator: David M. Anderson, Executive Director, Youth '04
Panelists: Vincent M. Keenan, President, Publius.org; Thomas A. Bryer, Director, Party Y; David B. Smith, Executive Director, Mobilizing America's Youth

Materials:
Concurrent 12 Blog

A lawyer and an ethicist will lead a discussion regarding the unique ethical and legal issues of privacy, anonymity, consent, and data ownership that attend on-line research, and regarding the formulation of guidelines for conducting such research.

Panelists: Dan Burk, Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly Professor of Law, University of Minnesota; Charles Ess, Professor of Philosophy and Religion and Distinguished Research Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Drury University

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Concurrent 13 Blog

Identity is a unifying concept bringing together security and privacy aspects under one roof. The European Union has developed a strong legal and regulatory framework in order to properly manage the balance between these two aspects while respecting the fundament rights of the citizen. This balance, strongly influenced by cultural environments in each country, has been challenged recently by emerging information and communications technologies and post 9/11 policy initiatives. In this panel, technical experts will provide an overview of the future of identity in Europe and its impact on security & privacy. Presentations will be followed by a discussion between European privacy proponents & representatives from law enforcement agencies about the future challenges related to identity.

Moderator: Emilio De Capitani, Civil Servant, European Parliament, Secretary of Committee on Citizen's Rights, Justice and Home Affairs, "Identity and Balance Between Security and Privacy in Europe"
Panelists: Laurent Beslay, Scientific Officer, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), European Commission, "Identity: Privacy and Security for the Citizen in the Information Society"; ; Paul de Hert, Associated Professor (UHD), University of Leiden University (the Netherlands), and Professor of Law, University of Brussels (Belgium), "Privacy and Data Protection Concepts in Europe"; Marie-Hélène Boulanger, Justice and Internal Affairs, European Commission, "Integration of Data Protection Concerns in Justice and Home Affairs Large Scale IT Systems."

Materials:
Passenger Name Records - 31/03/2004 [local copy]
Laurent Beslay's slides
Paul de Hert's slides
Emilio De Capitani's slides

Concurrent 14 Blog

Two candidates will stump us all in an election for "CFPer of the Year" at a mock election designed to raise some of the issues brought up by electronic voting systems with and without an auditing capability. Run by Verified Voting Founder David Dill, this election will employ real election officials impersonating mock election officials representing California and Florida and will serve as an excellent introduction to the Electronic Voting panel that follows. Join us for a fun way to explore this important topic and support the candidate you like best. Who knows what might happen to your vote!

Presented by the Verified Voting Foundation

Materials:
CFP 2004: Mock Voter Information Center

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CFP2004 General Discussion Blog

If your next vote is cast on a touch screen voting machine, how will you know that it was counted correctly? Many computer scientists and public interest groups argue that voter verified paper ballots are a necessary check for the integrity of our elections. Opponents of voter verified paper ballots counter that they unnecessarily complicate the voting process, add needless expenses, and make providing access for the disabled more difficult, without really improving the integrity of elections.

Moderator: Lorrie Faith Cranor, Associate Research Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Panelists: David Wagner, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley; Douglas A. Kellner, Commissioner, New York City Board of Elections: "Counting Secret Ballots in Public"; Kim Alexander, California Voter Foundation; Michael I. Shamos, Distinguished Career Professor, Carnegie Mellon University: "Paper vs. Electronic Voting Records: An Assessment"; Scott Konopasek, Registrar of Voters, San Bernardino County, California: "Audit Trail or 'New-Fangled' Chad? The Phenomenon of Unintended Consequences"; Dan Tokaji, Assistant Professor of Law, Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law

Materials:
Scott Konopasek's paper: "Audit Trail or 'New-fangled' Chad? The Phenomenon of Unintended Consequences
Michael Shamos' paper: "Paper v. Electronic Voting Records -- An Assessment, April 2004; also available at http://euro.ecom.cmu.edu/people/faculty/mshamos/paper.htm
David Wagner's PowerPoint

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Plenary 12 Blog

"Universal Access to All Human Knowledge"

Materials:
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