FC: Internet, privacy and open source panel in DC on June 5

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 17:13:36 -0400
To: declan () mail well com
From: Sarah Andrews <andrews () epic org>
Subject: Press Advisory

Hey Declan.
You've probably got this already but would you mind circulating it on some
of your lists also?


                PRESS ADVISORY


        "The Internet, Privacy and the Open Source Movement"

WHAT:   Panel discussions at the National Press Club to celebrate the
publication of three important new books: Jeffrey Rosen, "The
Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America"; Robert Ellis
Smith, "Ben Franklin's Web Site: Privacy and Curiosity from Plymouth
Rock to the Internet"; and Peter Wayner, "Free for All: How Linux
and the Free Software Movement Undercut the High-Tech Titans."

WHO:    The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and
        distinguished speakers (see program details below).

WHERE:  National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor,
        Washington, DC 20045

DATE:   Monday, June 5, 2000

TIME:   8:00 - 11:00 a.m.


The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) will host a two-panel
event at the National Press Club to discuss privacy and the open source
movement and to celebrate new publications in these areas.  The panels
feature distinguished authors, technical experts, professors in law
and public policy, and public interest advocates.

The Program is as follows.

8:00           Registration

8:45 - 9:00    Welcome: Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director,
               EPIC

9:00 - 10:00   Panel I: "From Ben Franklin's Web Site to
                the Destruction of Privacy in America"

    Moderator:  Deborah Hurley, Kennedy School of Government

    Speakers:   Professor Anita Allen Castellito, University of
                Pennsylvania Law School

                Professor David Flaherty, Former Information and
                Privacy Commissioner, British Columbia

                Professor Gary Marx, Massachusetts Institute of
                Technology

                Professor Jeffrey Rosen, author, "The Unwanted
                Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America"

                Robert Ellis Smith, author, "Ben Franklin's Web
                Site"


10:00 - 11:00  Panel II:   "The Free Software Movement"

    Moderator:  Professor James Boyle, American University Law
                School

    Speakers:   Professor Julie Cohen, Georgetown University Law
                Center

                Whitfield Diffie, Distinguished Engineer, Sun
                Microsystems

                Austin Hill, President, Zero Knowledge Systems

                Barbara Simons, President, Association for
                Computing Machinery

                Peter Wayner, author, "Free For All: How Linux
                and the Software Movement Undercut the High-
                Tech Titans."


For more details and purchase information on these publications
visit  the EPIC Bookstore (www.epic.org/bookstore/)

Contact:  Sarah Andrews, EPIC Policy Analyst,  (202) 483 1140,
          <andrews () epic org>


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