IP: EPIC Nat'l Press Club Event, June 4

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

>             Policy Briefing: Emerging Cyberspace Issues
>         Internet Jurisdiction and Global Privacy Protection
>
>                            Sponsored by
>
>             Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
>           Harvard Information Infrastructure Project (HIIP)
>
>                         Monday, June 4, 2001
>                             8 am - 10 am
>                          National Press Club
>                         First Amendment Lounge
>                      529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor
>                             Washington, DC
>
> Recent events such as the sale of Nazi memorabilia through Yahoo!
> France have highlighted a growing realization that the Internet can
> not ignore national boundaries.  The first panel will discuss these
> recent events with a particular focus on new jurisdictional issues
> brought about by Internet commerce.  Likewise, the application of
> regional data protection creates new challenges as countries seek to
> accomodate different legal regimes.  The second panel will discuss
> future prospects for global privacy protection by both legal and
> technological means.
>
> 8:00  Registration
>
> 8:15  Welcome
>
>          Deborah Hurley, Director, Harvard Information Infrastructure
>            Project (HIIP)
>         Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director, Electronic Privacy
>            Information Center (EPIC)
>
>          Hon. John Anderson
>
> 8:30  "The Internet and Jurisdiction"
>
>           Moderator: Julie Cohen, Professor, Georgetown University Law
>            Center
>
>           Jamie Boyle, Professor, Duke University School of Law
>           Dave Farber, Professor, University of Pennsylvania Department
>            of Computer and Information Science; Former Chief Technologist,
>            Federal Communications Commission
>           Michael Geist, Professor, University of Ottawa Law School
>           Pam Samuelson, Professor, University of California at Berkeley
>            School of Information Management and Systems and School of Law;
>            Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology
>           Barbara Simons, Past President, Association for Computing
>            Machinery; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of
>            Science
>
> 9:15  "Privacy and Global Society"
>
>          Moderator: Anita Allen-Castellitto, Professor, University of
>           Pennsylvania School of Law
>
>          Simon Davies, Director General, Privacy International
>          Whitfield Diffie, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems
>          Oscar Gandy, Professor, University of Pennsylvania Annenberg
>           School for Communication
>          Austin Hill, Co-founder and President, Zero-Knowledge Systems
>          Paul Schwartz, Professor, Brooklyn School of Law
>          Robert Ellis Smith, Publisher, Privacy Journal
>
> More Information: http://www.epic.org/events/policy_briefing_2001/
> Sarah Andrews, EPIC Research Director, 202-483-1140, andrews () epic org



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