IP: ANNOUNCE: Scrambling for Safety 3.5 (UK), 23/9/99

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> Scrambling for Safety 3.5 - Thursday September 23 1999
> ======================================================
> The Foundation for Information Policy Research, Privacy International and
> the LSE Computer Security Research Centre are jointly sponsoring the fourth
> in the series of public conferences on cryptography policy, e-commerce and
> Internet surveillance. This will be the second conference of 1999, and has
> been called in response to the exceptional circumstance of two official DTI
> consultations in the same year, and the Home Office's recent consultation on
> revising the Interception of Communications Act to cover the Internet.
>
> Admission is free of charge.
>
> 09:15 - 13:30, Thursday 23 September 1999
>
> Old Theatre, Main Building,
> London School of Economics,
> Houghton St., London WC2
> (for directions, check links on the Website)
>
> Registration: Send e-mail to
>
>       sfs35 () fipr org
>
> with "name, organisation" in body. Telephone enquiries: 0171 354 2333
>
> The connections between Home Office policy on interception and powers
> proposed in Part.III of the DTI's draft Electronic Communications Bill
> (closing date for responses 8th October) will be explored, and well as
> the legal framework for establishing voluntary licensing of cryptography
> services, and recognition of digital signatures.
>
> Provisional Programme :
> =======================
> 09.25 Welcome - Caspar Bowden, FIPR
>
> 09:30  Internet Service Providers Association (invited)
>       Alliance for Electronic Business: Progress towards self-regulation
>
> 10:00 "Cryptography, privacy and information warfare"
>       - Whitfield Diffie
>
> 10:30 "Why we needed further consultation"
>       - Alan Duncan MP, Shadow spokesman on Trade and Industry
>
> 11:00 "Cryptography's central role in e-commerce policy"
>       - Chris Sundt, CBI
>
> 11:30 "Law enforcement access to keys - legal and human rights issues"
>       - Nicholas Bohm (Law Society)
>
> 12:00 Keynote: Patricia Hewitt MP #
>       - Minister of State for E-Commerce at the DTI
>
> 12:45 Panel discussion
>       - Jim Norton (Cabinet Office PIU)
>       - Stephen Pride (DTI)
>       - Peter Sommer (Special Adviser to T&I Sel Ctee)
>       - Clare Wardle (Post Office)
>       - LIBERTY
>
> 13:30 close
> ============
>
> --
> Caspar Bowden                    http://www.fipr.org
> Director, Foundation for Information Policy Research
> Tel: +44(0)171 354 2333      Fax: +44(0)171 827 6534