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Over the past eight years, we have run a number of workshops at HCI conferences that bring together diverse researchers to work through some of the biggest challenges facing privacy research, policy, and design. This year’s workshop, being held at CSCW in Portland, is titled, “In Whose Best Interest? Exploring the Real, Potential, and Imagined Ethical Concerns in Privacy-Focused Agendas.”

Information about this year’s CSCW workshops can be found here: https://cscw.acm.org/2017/submit/workshops.php

Position papers should be submitted by 11:59pm PT on December 14, 2016 to [email protected]. Questions about the workshop should also be directed to this email address. More information about this workshop’s call can be found on the Call for Participation page.

Details of this schedule are subject to change.

8:30 AM – 9 AM: Welcome and Introductions

9 AM – 9:45 AM: Participant Introductions and Lightning Talk Presentations

9:45 AM – 10:30 AM: (Theme 1: Ethics and Privacy in Research)

10:30 AM – 11 AM: Coffee Break

11 AM – 12:30 PM: Panel Discussion: Privacy, social computing, and ethics experts from both academia and industry

12:30 PM – 2 PM Lunch

2 PM – 2:45 PM: (Theme 2: Ethics of Networked Privacy Research) Large-group Discussion

2:45 PM – 3:30 PM: Break-out Activities: Balancing privacy, ethics, and research with other values

3:30 PM – 4:00 PM: Coffee Break

4 PM – 4:30 PM: Report/Synthesize: Summarizing break out session outcomes

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM: Next Steps: Drafting a future roadmap on balancing ethics and privacy values in research and design

The all-day workshop on March 7, titled “GDPR Implementation: Status, Key Challenges, and Understanding the Core Principles of Transparency, Consent and Legitimate Interest,” will be co-hosted by the Spanish Data Protection Authority. The agenda will focus on four key areas:

• member states’ and regulators’ ongoing activities, priorities and progress in implementing the GDPR;
• the most significant challenges industry is facing in becoming GDPR compliant by May 2018;
• how to make the GDPR’s transparency requirement user-centric and meaningful so that it enables broad, accountable and trusted data uses; and
• how to use consent, legitimate interest and other grounds for processing personal data under the GDPR in the context of the modern information ecosystem.

On March 6, CIPL will hold a special pre-workshop session with Bruno Gencarelli, Head of Unit, International Data Flows and Protection, European Commission, to discuss the communication sent from the European Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on Exchanging and Protecting Personal Data in a Globalized World. The communication set forth the European Commission’s policy priorities and proposed action items with respect to cross-border data flows, relevant transfer and governance mechanisms, and global interoperability. The purpose of the pre-workshop session is to allow stakeholders to provide specific feedback to the European Commission regarding the communication.

The event in Madrid is part of CIPL’s ongoing GDPR Implementation Project, which aims to address the need for a constructive and expert dialogue between industry, regulators and key policymakers with the following specific objectives:

• facilitating consistent interpretations of the GDPR across the EU;
• informing and advancing constructive and forward-thinking interpretations of key GDPR requirements;
• facilitating consistency in the further implementation of the GDPR by EU Member States, the European Commission and the European Data Protection Board;
• examining best practices and challenges in the implementation of key GDPR requirements;
• sharing industry experiences and views to benchmark, coordinate and streamline the implementation of new compliance measures; and
• examining how the new GDPR requirements should be interpreted and implemented to advance the European Digital Single Market strategy and data-driven innovation, while protecting individuals’ privacy and respecting the fundamental right to data protection.

This multi-year project includes stakeholder workshops, roundtables, working sessions, white papers, webinars and public consultations.

The Big Data Task Force of the Science Committee of the NASA Advisory Council will meet March 6-7, 2017 at NASA HQ in Washington, DC.  The meeting is 9:00 am – 5:00 pm ET both days.

The meeting will be available by telephone and WebEx by following these instructions as published in the Federal Register:

Any interested person may call the USA

toll free conference call number 1-888-324-9653 or toll number 1-312-

470-7237, passcode 3883300, to participate in this meeting by telephone for

both days. The WebEx link is https://nasa.webex.com/; the meeting

number is 997 477 523 and the password is BDTFmtg#4 (case sensitive)

for both days.

More information is in the Federal Register notice, which is reproduced below.

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public

Law 92-463, as amended, the National Aeronautics and Space

Administration (NASA) announces a meeting of the Ad Hoc Big Data Task

Force. This task force reports to the NASA Advisory Council’s Science

Committee. The meeting will be held for the purpose of soliciting and

discussing, from the scientific community and other persons, scientific

and technical information relevant to big data.

 

DATES: Monday, March 6, 2017, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.; and Tuesday, March

7, 2017, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Local Time.

 

ADDRESSES: NASA Headquarters, Room 5H41-A, 300 E Street SW.,

Washington, DC 20546.

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. KarShelia Henderson, Science

Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC 20546, (202)

358-2355, fax (202) 358-2779, or [email protected].

 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The meeting will be open to the public up to

the capacity of the room. The meeting will also be available

telephonically and by WebEx. You must use a touch tone phone to

participate in this meeting. Any interested person may call the USA

toll free conference call number 1-888-324-9653 or toll number 1-312-

470-7237, passcode 3883300, to participate in this meeting by telephone for

both days. The WebEx link is https://nasa.webex.com/; the meeting

number is 997 477 523 and the password is BDTFmtg#4 (case sensitive)

for both days. The agenda for the meeting includes the following

topics:

 

–NASA Science Mission Data Repositories

–Current Big Data Efforts at NASA

–Federal Big Data Initiatives

 

Attendees will be requested to sign a register and to comply with

NASA Headquarters security requirements, including the presentation of

a valid picture ID to Security before access to NASA Headquarters. Due

to the Real ID Act, any attendees with drivers licenses issued from

non-compliant states must present a second form of ID. Non-compliant

states are: Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, and Washington.

Foreign nationals attending this meeting will be required to provide a

copy of their passport and visa in addition to providing the following

information no less than 10 days prior to the meeting: Full name;

gender; date/place of birth; citizenship; passport information (number,

country, telephone); visa information (number, type, expiration date);

employer/affiliation information (name of institution, address,

country, telephone); title/position of attendee. To expedite

admittance, attendees that are U.S. citizens and Permanent Residents

(green card holders) are requested to provide full name and citizenship

status 3 working days in advance. Information should be sent to Ms.

KarShelia Henderson, via email at [email protected] or by fax at

(202) 358-2779. It is imperative that the meeting be held on these

dates to the scheduling priorities of the key participants.