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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.
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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.
A High-Caliber Event with Real-World Lessons and Practical Takeaways.
The Privacy + Security Forum offers an intellectual discourse that reaches across the separate silos of privacy and security. Privacy professionals, security professionals, chief information officers, law firm attorneys, policymakers, academics, experts from NGOs and think tanks, and technologists connect and collaborate in a rigorous learning environment.
From smartphones to cloud computing, from big data to social media, the exploding use of information technology and its many applications will be a source of massive social and economic changes for years to come. Privacy is one of the areas widely believed to be affected by these changes. Developments such as digital surveillance, electronic profiling, social media, ‘do not track’, privacy-friendly business models, digital records, database interconnection, business intelligence and behavioral marketing have a profound effect on privacy in all its facets.
In the past, privacy has mostly been addressed from a single perspective, for example legal, philosophical, sociological, technical, medical or psychological. At present, however, it is acknowledged that privacy has many facets, and researchers and professionals worldwide are working together to address privacy from a truly interdisciplinary approach.
This unique interdisciplinary conference is taking place October 23-26 at the intimate venue of the Oudemanhuispoort in the heart of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. It is organized by the Amsterdam Platform for Privacy Research (APPR), an initiative of the University of Amsterdam with active participants from such diverse disciplines as philosophy, law, economics, informatics, social sciences, medical sciences and media sciences.
APC 2015 will bring together leading experts in the field of privacy who will formulate, discuss and answer the challenging privacy questions that lie ahead of us. APC 2015 is the follow up of the highly successful Amsterdam Privacy Conference 2012. Results from the evaluation of APC2012:
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In October 2015, Berkeley Law and the University of Amsterdam’s Amsterdam Platform for Privacy Research (APPR) will hold the first Privacy Law Scholars Conference in Europe (PLSC-Amsterdam). PLSC is a paper workshop, with the purpose of improving the quality of privacy scholarship.
PLSC-Amsterdam will be held concurrently with the Amsterdam Privacy Conference (APC), and the two events are in the same building, thus allowing participants to go to sessions associated with either event. One must register for APC in order to participate in PLSC-Amsterdam because APC is hosting the event.
Developments in mobile and surveying technologies over the past decade have enabled the collection of individual-level and aggregated geographic information at unprecedented scale. These data are valuable sources for answering scientific questions about human behavior and improving related services, from public transportation to location-aware recommendations. However, privacy intrusion is an imminent risk when individual trajectories (and in some cases aggregated travel patterns) are used for commercial purposes such as customer profiling, or even for political persecution. Similarly, there is a trade-off between location privacy and quality of spatial search and recommender systems. The GeoPrivacy workshop will hence focus on discussing methods to protect individuals’ privacy while enabling collection, analysis, and sharing of useful geographic information.
Hear from industry leaders about the latest developments in location-based and contextual services in a wide range of vertical fields. See products and solutions from our exhibitors, now including a selection of exciting startup companies. Forge valuable connections with new partners, investors, and other key players in the field.
The Bar Association of the District of Columbia’s National Security Law, Policy & Practice (NSLPP) will sponsor its now-traditional “Night Before” the ABA’s 25th Annual Review of the Field of National Security Law” event.This year, the event will be held on Capitol Hill, and will be a panel discussion entitled “Legislative Branch Updates on Developments in National Security Law.”
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