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Don’t miss the opportunity to hear from Robert S. Mueller, III, former director of the FBI & Partner, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr and Maneesha Mithal, Associate Director of Privacy and Identity Protection at the Federal Trade Commission.
Privacy and data security issues are no longer just key concerns for companies and individuals. These issues are now among the most discussed, debated and evolving areas of our society. From individuals to corporate executives to world leaders, privacy is a critical issue. Every business needs to elevate privacy and data security issues to the highest levels, stay abreast of the ever-changing legal landscape and continually analyze and modify their internal and external information practices. This program will examine the latest issues facing corporate America and how businesses should address the risks and rewards in our information and digital society.

On October 7, more than a dozen leading K-12 school service providers announced their signing of a pledge to advance student data privacy protection. Since then, two dozen additional organizations have signed the pledge introduced by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) and the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF).

Why is it essential for your organization to also take the pledge? Register today for SIIA’s November 17 webinar, directed to school service providers, to learn background and contextual information, understand specific pledge commitments, garner perspectives of signatory companies and education leaders, and get your questions answered about the pledge and the signature process. For more information, click here.

The recent decision by Apple and Google to enable encryption by default on new iPhones and Android smartphones, so that only the user can unlock his or her phone, has led to strong complaints from law enforcement agencies arguing that the move will deprive them of critical evidence. The Attorney General and the FBI Director have gone so far as to suggest that Congress may need to step in and tell companies to redesign their products, to ensure that government investigators can access encrypted data or wiretap online communications when they have appropriate legal authority like a search warrant. However, technologists and privacy advocates say that such a move would undermine the overall security of our data and devices while also putting US companies at a serious disadvantage in the global technology marketplace, and point to the fact that law enforcement and intelligence agencies already have access to more data about us, our communications, and our movements than at any other time in human history—a veritable “Golden Age” of surveillance. Which side is right?

Join New America for a lively debate on this timely technology policy issue, followed by a question and answer session with the audience. For more information, click here.

Join us Monday, December 1, 2014 to hear a panel discussion on Global Privacy Perspectives featuring Ann Cavoukian, Bojana Bellamy, and Jessica Rich.

Where: Bldg 101, Green Auditorium

When: December 1, 2014 at 10:00 AM

For more information, click here.

With companies such as Apple closing ‘back doors’ on their products rendering customer data more secure, law enforcement agencies such as the FBI have voiced concerns that their ability to combat terrorism and serious organized crime are now compromised. These developments have yet again raised the critical, but as yet unresolved, issue of where – if at all – should a citizen’s right to privacy begin and end, and how can law enforcement ensure public safety and law and order.

What impact should the latest encryption technologies have on cell-phone, Internet and commercial data storage? Should such technologies, for example, protect citizen’s data from law enforcement and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) search warrants?

This event will be held at The Capitol Hill Club, 300 First Street, SE, Washington D.C. Lunch will be served.  For reservations, call 571-970-3180 or email [email protected]

ZwillGen’s Ken Dreifach and Mason Weisz will provide an analysis of the key current business and data models in the Ad Tech ecosystem, and the privacy challenges that arise, as well as the basics (and some intricacies) of the legal and self-regulatory rules and principles that govern the space.

This webinar will discuss, for instance, what corporate and privacy counsel should know about cross-device targeting, offline-to-online data “onboarding,” and COPPA compliance, as well as principles regarding “Sensitive Data,” and how the NAI and DAA principles apply to ad platforms and their clients. The webinar will conclude with an update on international legal issues in ad tech, with a discussion of legal strategy for deals involving international data.

Join us Monday, December 8th at 10:30 A.M. to hear Dr. Alessandro Acquisti talk about The Economics of Privacy.

Date: December 8, 2014

Where: Bldg. 101, Lecture Room D

When: 10:30 AM

For more information and to register: [email protected]

Forum Europe’s 5th Data Protection and Privacy conference will take place on the 9th December 2014 in Brussels. With over 250 delegates already registered, this event provides a key multi-stakeholder platform for debate on data protection and privacy in Europe.This year, following adoption by the European Parliament and a partial general approach agreed by the European Council, the conference will assess the progress of the proposed reforms, heading for the trilogue with the European Commission. Alongside this, the conference will address the future of privacy principles in the age of the internet of things and the data economy, as well as looking at frameworks for international interoperability and digital trade.

For more info, click here.