FC: Events: Cato spam panel TODAY, EFF dinner 4/16, Big Brother awards

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Subject: Spam panel Wednesday at Cato.  -wayne
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 12:15:50 -0500
From: "Wayne Crews" <wcrews () cato org>
To: <declan () well com>

Hi Declan, I send this to you in case you'd like to forward to 
Politech.  We're having a free panel discussion on email spam Wednesday at 
11:00.  Free lunch for registrants (not spam I promise).
Thanks!!
Best, Wayne


The Cato Institute
invites you to a Policy Forum

The Spam Wars
What Can Be Done about the Annoying, Unsolicited E-mail That Is Driving Us 
Crazy?

featuring

Howard Beales
Federal Trade Commission

Chris Hoofnagle
Electronic Privacy
Information Center

Rebecca Richards
TRUSTe

Jerry Cerasale
Direct Marketing Association

Unsolicited e-mail, or "spam," clogs our in boxes with come-ons for 
everything from the mundane to the outrageous-from toner cartridges to sex 
aids to "work at home" pitches. The Federal Trade Commission has announced 
new initiatives to target fraudulent e-mail spam, and private groups have 
unveiled programs requiring standards of behavior to which online merchants 
must adhere. Are such programs and other tools enough, or is legislation 
needed to combat unsolicited e-mail? Might such legislation have unintended 
consequences? Join us for an engaging discussion on "canning spam."

Wednesday, March 27, 2002
11:00 a.m.
(Luncheon to follow)

Cato Policy Forums and luncheons are free of charge.
To register, call Julie Johnson by 11:00 a.m., Tuesday, March 26, at
(202) 789-5229, fax her at (202) 371-0841, or e-mail jjohnson () cato org.
If you can't make it to the Cato Institute, watch this Forum live online at 
www.cato.org.

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Wayne Crews
Director of Technology Studies
Cato Institute
1000 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20001
ph: 202.218.4602
fax: 202.842.3490
wcrews () cato org
Cato Tech: www.cato.org/tech
Cato Home: www.cato.org

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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 17:04:05 -0800
To: declan () well com
From: Katina Bishop <katina () eff org>
Subject: Please Post to the List


Thanks Declan....


Exchange Ideas with EFF Founders Mitch Kapor and John Perry Barlow
at April 16th Benefit Dinner

You are invited to join an intimate group of fifteen for a lively evening
of fine food, history and conversation with the original EFF co-founders,
Mitch Kapor and John Perry Barlow.  This exchange of ideas will take
place on Tuesday, April 16th at 7:30 p.m. and will benefit
EFF's work to protect rights in the digital age.

Mitch and Barlow founded EFF in July of 1990 to protect civil liberties
where law and technology collide.  (See Barlow's fascinating account from 
that time
at 
http://www.eff.org/Misc/Publications/John_Perry_Barlow/electronic_frontier.eff.) 
In
its 11-1/2 year history, EFF has been on the forefront of high tech issues, 
fighting to
ensure that reading email requires a warrant, software is recognized as speech,
restrictions on encryption export are illegal, and fair use survives in the 
digital age.

The dinner will take place at the classic Waterfront restaurant
in the North Room.  While looking out over the San Francisco
Bay, you will have the chance to take part in an in-depth
conversation about EFF's fascinating role in the universe.  You will
You will also be contributing to an important cause, as the money
raised from this unusual evening will go to furthering our work.

The evening includes the full cost of your dinner and
drinks, the opportunity to talk with Mitch and Barlow, a vintage
EFF t-shirt, and other surprises. The cost is $500.  As there are only
15 available seats, space will fill up quickly.

Please contact Katina Bishop, katina () eff org, for more information
and to RSVP at +1 415-436-9333 x101.
~~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~
Shari Steele
Executive Director                                    ssteele () eff org
Electronic Frontier Foundation                  +1 415 436 9333 x103 (voice)
454 Shotwell Street                                  +1 415 436 9993 (fax)
San Francisco, CA  94110                        http://www.eff.org

"The protections of the Fourth Amendment are clear. The right to
protection from unlawful searches is an indivisible American value. Two
hundred years of court decisions have stood in defense of this
fundamental right. The state's interest in effective crime-fighting
should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights."

                           Senator John Ashcroft (now U.S. Attorney General)
                           USIA Electronic Journal, Vol. 2, No. 4, October 
1997

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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:13:30 -0500
To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
From: Chris Hoofnagle <souvarine () earthlink net>
Subject: Big Brother Awards 2002

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                           CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

                     THE 2002 U.S. BIG BROTHER AWARDS
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On April 18, 2002, Privacy International will hold the fourth U.S. "Big
Brother Awards" to name and shame the public and private sector
individuals and organizations which have done the most to invade
personal privacy in the United States in the past year.

Three distinctive "Orwell" statutes of a golden boot stomping a head
will be presented to the government agencies and officials, companies
and initiatives which have done most to invade personal privacy in the
previous year. A "lifetime achievement" award will also be presented to
the organization that has systematically invaded privacy over a long
period of time.

Previous "winners"  include The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the
National Security Agency, DoubleClick, ChoicePoint, The FAA's BodyScan
system, the Department of Commerce and Microsoft.

The judging panel, consisting of lawyers, academics, consultants,
journalists and civil rights activists, are inviting nominations from
members of the public. Nominations can be made directly from the site:

     http://www.privacyinternational.org/bigbrother/us2002/

Privacy International will post the 'most popular' current nominations
on its' site.

"Brandeis" awards will be also be given out to champions of privacy. The
Brandeis Award is named after US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis,
who is considered the father of American privacy law, describing privacy
as "the right to be left alone." The awards are given to those have done
exemplary work to protect and enhance privacy. Previous winner include
Phil Zimmermann, creator of PGP, Beth Givens, founder of the Privacy
Rights Clearing House and Robert Ellis Smith, editor of the Privacy Journal.

The Big Brother Awards are now in their fourth year. There have been
ceremonies in the UK, the US, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary,
France, Denmark and the Netherlands. This event will mark the 20th
ceremony.  Further information can be found at on the PI website at
http://www.privacyinternational.org/bigbrother/. The initiator of the
awards, Privacy International, was founded in 1990, and campaigns on a
wide range of privacy issues across the world. More information on
Privacy International is available at:

     http://www.privacyinternational.org/

The ceremony will be held at the Cathedral Hill Hotel in San Francisco,
Cal at the 2002 Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference.   More
information on CFP 2002 is available at:

     http://www.cfp2002.org/

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Chris Hoofnagle
Legislative Counsel
Electronic Privacy Information Center
+1.202.483.1140 (tel)
+1.202.483.1248 (fax)
hoofnagle () epic org
http://www.epic.org/
http://www.privacy.org/




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