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This half-day conference aims to better define the concept of “privacy crimes,” assess how such crimes are currently being addressed in the criminal justice system, and explore how society might better respond to them—through new laws, different enforcement practices, education, and other strategies. The conference will bring together a variety of stakeholders, including prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges, academics, and victims’ advocates to discuss three main questions:

• What is a ‘Privacy Crime’?
•  What’s Being Done to Enforce Laws Addressing Privacy Crimes?
•  How Should We Balance Privacy Interests in the Criminal Justice System?

The FCBA will be holding a luncheon on Thursday, October 8 featuring FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez.  The luncheon will be held at the Grand Hyatt, 1000 H Street, NW.  Registration will open at 11:30 a.m. and the luncheon will begin at Noon.  Please note that tables of 10 are available, although you cannot register online for this option; you must download the form and fax or email it in with attendee names.

The Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP) Conference is the premier event examining the intersection of policy, technology, and action. The 25th Anniversary CFP 2015 will feature events bringing together technologists, policy experts, and activists in forums designed to engage the public and policymakers in discussions about the information society and the future of technology, innovation, and freedom.

CFP 2015 will focus on the growing tensions between, on the one hand, maturing information technology and its benefit to innovation and free speech online and, on the other, the threat that technology poses in areas as diverse as consumer privacy, racially biased policing, political dissent worldwide and, indeed, to the teeming marketplace of digital speech and association enabled by that very technology.

CFP 2015 is currently accepting submissions. Please see these guidelines for information.

Only a few years ago, “Big Data” was a poorly understood buzz-phrase.  Today, across nearly every societal sector, from corrections to education to health care, large-scale data analysis is a widely adopted information practice.  Our most personal behaviors and traits are regularly quantified by a rapidly growing array of sensors and devices around us.  These devices are connected to intelligent systems that render critical predictions about our conduct and choices—what we will buy, our health, when we will leave our jobs, whether we will pay our bills, even whether we will commit crimes.

At the University of California at Santa Cruz’s first-ever DataLex symposium, thought leaders in law, academia, and tech will convene to interrogate these and other emerging legal and ethical challenges arising from the use of Big Data.

For more information and to register, please click here.

Organizations have a growing number of reasons to demonstrate compliance with privacy laws and regulations. Binding Corporate Rules require organizations to monitor compliance across the group, report results to the management board, and be prepared to share with Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) on demand. It is anticipated that this requirement will extend to all organizations doing business in or with Europe, should Article 22 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation be included as currently written. Even where there is no explicit legal requirement to demonstrate compliance, DPAs in jurisdictions around the world are calling for it through papers and guidance documents, for example Canada, Hong Kong, and Australia.

Join Nymity for a webinar which will explain in simple, detailed terms what it means to demonstrate compliance and provide practical solutions for doing so.

The Chang School’s one-day Executive Seminar on Privacy and Big Data is designed for executives and senior managers who are responsible for their organization’s data privacy. The objective of the seminar is to help participants understand how, as executives and senior managers, they play an essential role in creating an organization that proactively and effectively manages data privacy, particularly in the era of big data and the emerging Internet of Things.

For more information and to register for the event, please click here.

The next Privacy After Hours is Thursday, October 15.  Several times a year, the IAPP sponsors Privacy After Hours nights in dozens of cities around the world. They’re casual, fun, member-organized gatherings that welcome everyone interested in privacy, IAPP member or not.

For more information and to register, please click here.