IP: Washington DC event -- EPIC - National Press Club - 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)
> 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
>         Robert Ellis Smith, Publisher, Privacy Journal
>
> More Information: Sarah Andrews, EPIC Research Director, 202-483-1140,
>                   andrews () epic org



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