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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.

Is the Open Internet dead? As the keynote speaker at Black Hat this year, Jennifer Granick, Director of Civil Liberties at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society hit national headlines when sounded the alarm – the Open Internet as we know it will not exist much longer unless big changes happen.

Join Startup Policy Lab and Women in Security & Privacy on October 15th at Runway, as we host Dir. Granick in a fireside chat followed by an audience Q&A. If you care about the future of the Open Internet, you won’t want to miss it.

For more information and to register, please click here.

On Tuesday, October 5th, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) declared the US EU Safe Harbor digital privacy agreement invalid as part of a suit against Facebook. The implications of this decision are massive for U.S. Internet companies. The ECJ decision torpedoed the 15 year-old Safe Harbor agreement between the U.S. Department of Commerce and the European Union. Since the U.S. does not have a digital privacy law that the EU recognizes as “adequate” the Safe Harbor agreement served as a stop gap to assure that personal information of EU citizens could flow to U.S. Internet companies. Close to 5,000 U.S. companies rely on the Safe Harbor to operate internationally, including Google, Facebook, and Amazon. The European court justified the scuttling of the Safe Harbor in large part by noting that NSA surveillance was unstoppable and renders the Safe Harbor an inadequate protection for Europeans’ personal information.

The panel discussion will explore the EU court’s decision and whether Congress will have to pass a digital privacy law immediately before international data flows dry up. The panel will also look at other options for U.S. companies in lieu of congressional legislation.

Mobile Ecosystem Forum’s (MEF) Consumer Trust Summit looks at the impact of trust related issues across the mobile ecosystem including the latest EU Regulation as well business, tech and design trends in privacy and security across different sectors.

The one-day event takes place at Level39 Europe’s largest technology accelerator for finance, retail and cyber-security. The agenda includes Privacy & Security experts as well as consumer facing companies from across the mobile ecosystem sharing experiences how they innovate and integrate Trust best practices into products & services.

For more information and to register, please click here.

To mark its 44th anniversary, Consumer Action’s Annual Awards Reception on October 20, 2015, will celebrate the theme “Common Ground,” a nod to our work with diverse communities, private sector players, “strange bedfellows” coalitions and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. Please join Consumer Action to celebrate its tradition of working amicably with all marketplace participants and to honor this year’s Consumer Excellence awardees: Kenneth Feinberg, Feinberg Rozen, LLP, an American attorney specializing in mediation and alternative dispute resolution; the Center for Public Integrity, an investigative news organization whose mission it is to help preserve the public trust in public and private institutions by revealing abuses of power and corruption; and the Center for Financial Services Innovation, which offers increased access to higher-quality products and practices to improve the financial health of Americans.