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The Privacy Paradox: Discover how you crave and forfeit your privacy.
Digital Eye @BlindWhino is an exciting, interactive event merging theater, film and a live game show to explore how the Digital Age is affecting our everyday lives. As technology moves towards a more intimate experience with its users, we find our private lives becoming the commodity for a global market of data-miners, phishers, and hackers. Our private selves – what we watch, what we like, where we go – can all be used overtly or covertly to determine what we do. We invite you to consider how you fit in at the dawn of a new era.
View thought-provoking micro-plays and filmed performances produced by Europe’s most innovative playwrights and directed by Washington’s leading theaters. Team up for challenges revealing fun yet disturbing truths about how others predict our personalities. Lend your voice to a talk with renowned international digital and privacy experts. Experience one of DC’s most visually stunning venues as the evening challenges your understanding of what it means to be a connected individual.
So… what are you getting in this new world? What are you giving up?
Enjoy food trucks and a cash bar while you interact with Digital Eye @BlindWhino.
This hybrid cultural-political experience is part of the transatlantic theater project P3M5 (Plurality of Privacy in Five-Minute Plays; www.goethe.de/p3m5), a partnership between European and American cultural organizations to engage in the changing nature of privacy in the digital age.
Digital Eye @BlindWhino partners include the Austrian Cultural Forum, British Council, Embassy of the Czech Republic, Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain, Goethe-Institut Washington, Embassy of Sweden, Baltimore Center Stage, Blind Whino SW Arts Club, Forum Theatre, The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University, Shakespeare Theatre, and Studio Theatre.
Additional support for Digital Eye @BlindWhino comes from the European National Institutes of Culture Cluster Fund and Friends of the Goethe-Institut.
Watch us @DigitalEyeDC, where we’ll share previews, films, surveys, games and information about privacy prior to the performance.
*Please note: We are requesting the name of each attendee so you can be seated together. We will contact anyone who has registered without providing this information to ask for it prior to the performance. The use of a smartphone will enhance the game show component of the evening.
#DigitalEyeDC #p3m5
Note: Pre-show activities begin at 6:15 and 8:45 respectively. Bar opens at 6 pm / 8:30 pm.
| SmartPrivacy is a practitioner-focused, half day local workshop where privacy professionals can learn from each other about tools and best practices to operationalize their privacy programs.
The workshop is hosted by OneTrust, however, is open to any privacy professional regardless of tool or template of choice. A combination or structured educational sessions, peer-lead discussions, and networking allow organizations to share practical tips on topics such as GDPR compliance, how to perform a data inventory, identifying the key stakeholders/privacy champions within your organization, and how to get buy-in from executives. Attendees can expect to receive 4.5 CPE credit hours, the ultimate PIA/DPIA, Data Inventory & Mapping, and Data Subject Rights Handbooks, access to free software tools, how-to guides, and best practices documents on the topics covered. Workshop Agenda: |
Chances are, if you are a data-driven company in the European Union, you are fully aware of the term GDPR. But, are you ready? Join Lotame’s VP and General Counsel, Tiffany Morris, on October 26th for a brief webinar to help you get prepared for GDPR. She will cover: What you need to know about GDPR What your organization should be thinking about in terms of data privacy and protection What are good resources to help you prepare? What is Lotame doing to prepare for GDPR?
| SmartPrivacy is a practitioner-focused, half day local workshop where privacy professionals can learn from each other about tools and best practices to operationalize their privacy programs.
The workshop is hosted by OneTrust, however, is open to any privacy professional regardless of tool or template of choice. A combination or structured educational sessions, peer-lead discussions, and networking allow organizations to share practical tips on topics such as GDPR compliance, how to perform a data inventory, identifying the key stakeholders/privacy champions within your organization, and how to get buy-in from executives. Attendees can expect to receive 4.5 CPE credit hours, the ultimate PIA/DPIA, Data Inventory & Mapping, and Data Subject Rights Handbooks, access to free software tools, how-to guides, and best practices documents on the topics covered. Workshop Agenda: |
The Workshop offers privacy scholars from diverse fields the opportunity to receive extensive, constructive commentary on their works-in-progress. We invite submissions on a variety of privacy-related topics and from a wide range of disciplines, including, but not limited to, law, social science, computer science, engineering, communications, and public policy.
The Workshop format is designed to facilitate discussion and commentary on papers that can benefit from them. Therefore, the Workshop will give preference to projects and papers that are sufficiently along to be read and critiqued, but not yet submitted for publication. There will be no presentations, only commentators and feedback from participants. Participants are expected to read all papers beforehand. Also, because feedback from a broad range of disciplines is important for interdisciplinary privacy scholarship, we ask that all participants stay for the entire one-day workshop.
Important Dates:
Abstracts due: August 20, 2017, by 5 PM
Selections made no later than: September 3, 2017, by 5 PM
Papers due and commentators assigned: September 20, 2017, by 5 PM
2nd PrivacyWeek; organised by the „Chaos Computer Club Wien“ in Vienna, Austria.
This year will be focused on BigData and Data trails (on/offline).
One week full of Talks, Panels, Workshops and special Events for Journalists, Teachers and Developers.
Some of the talks will be available via livestream – Visit the Website privacyweek.at.
The GDPR Practitioner Certificate (GDPR.Cert) is the qualification for those undertaking the role of Data Protection Officer under the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The course takes place over four days (one day per week) and involves lectures, discussion and practical exercises. This is followed by a written assessment on day 5. Candidates are then required to complete a project (in their own time) to achieve the certificate.
| The GDPR Practitioner Certificate (GDPR.Cert) is the qualification for those undertaking the role of Data Protection Officer under the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The course takes place over four days (one day per week) and involves lectures, discussion and practical exercises. This is followed by a written assessment on day 5. Candidates are then required to complete a project (in their own time) to achieve the certificate. |
We would like to invite you to attend the second Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Symposium on Computing Research Addressing National Priorities and Societal Needs in Washington, DC on October 23-24th, 2017. The goal of the symposium is to illustrate the current and future impact of computing research in ways that will inspire a broader picture of how computing research impacts the world, and also inspire computer scientists to go after new problems they might not otherwise think about.
Over the past decade, the Computing Community Consortium has hosted dozens of research visioning workshops and written timely white papers to imagine, discuss, and debate the future of computing and its role in addressing societal needs. This symposium draws from these topics into a program designed to illuminate current and future trends in computing and the potential for computing to address national and societal needs. Farnam Jahanian, interim president of Carnegie Mellon University, as well as the past NSF CISE Assistant Director and the current chair of the CSTB Board, will be discussing computing research and its impact on societal and national priorities in his plenary address. There will also be a research poster session highlighting the work from about 40 early career faculty members from across the country.
The two days are organized around four main themes, with confirmed speakers listed below:
- Intelligent Infrastructure for our Cities and Communities
- Intelligent infrastructure is already transforming our nation’s cities and communities, but the technological revolution is just now beginning. This session will highlight some of the major advances taking place now, while at the same time emphasizing the substantial body of research, much of it crossing disciplinary boundaries, that still needs to be done.
- Confirmed speakers include:
- Michael Dunaway (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) – Plenary Speaker
- Elizabeth M. Belding (University of California, Santa Barbara) –Panelist
- Chandra Krintz (University of California, Santa Barbara) – Panelist
- Megan S. Ryerson (University of Pennsylvania) – Panelist
- Confirmed speakers include:
- Intelligent infrastructure is already transforming our nation’s cities and communities, but the technological revolution is just now beginning. This session will highlight some of the major advances taking place now, while at the same time emphasizing the substantial body of research, much of it crossing disciplinary boundaries, that still needs to be done.
- Security and Privacy for Democracy
- Computing research enables new technology to help society cope with information security and privacy risks. This session will explore how differential privacy enables new understanding of the population while protecting privacy.
- Confirmed speakers include:
- Roger Dingledine (Tor Project) – Panelist
- Simson L. Garfinkel (U.S. Census Bureau) – Panelist
- Phillipa Gill (UMass-Amherst) – Panelist
- Daniela Oliveria (University of Florida) – Panelist
- Dan Wallach (Rice University) – Panelist
- Confirmed speakers include:
- Computing research enables new technology to help society cope with information security and privacy risks. This session will explore how differential privacy enables new understanding of the population while protecting privacy.
- AI and Amplifying Human Abilities
- This session will examine the emerging role of AI in augmenting human abilities in new and powerful ways. Speakers will also ground their remarks in application areas ranging from health, transportation, universal access, data analysis, and education.
- Confirmed speakers include:
- Thad Starner (Georgia Tech) – Plenary Speaker
- Jeffrey P. Bigham (Carnegie Mellon University) – Panelist
- Suchi Saria (Johns Hopkins University) – Panelist
- Cliff Young (Google) – Panelist
- Confirmed speakers include:
- This session will examine the emerging role of AI in augmenting human abilities in new and powerful ways. Speakers will also ground their remarks in application areas ranging from health, transportation, universal access, data analysis, and education.
- Data Algorithms and Fairness
- Data-driven and algorithmic decision making increasingly determines how businesses target advertisements to consumers. As data-driven decisions increasingly affect every corner of our lives, there is an urgent need to ensure they do not become instruments of discrimination, barriers to equality, and threats to social justice.
- Confirmed speakers include:
- Solon Barocas (Cornell University) – Panelist
- Kate Crawford (Microsoft Research / NYU) – Panelist
- Nick Diakopoulous (Northwestern University) – Panelist
- Lynn Overmann (Laura & John Arnold Foundation) – Panelist
- Confirmed speakers include:
- Data-driven and algorithmic decision making increasingly determines how businesses target advertisements to consumers. As data-driven decisions increasingly affect every corner of our lives, there is an urgent need to ensure they do not become instruments of discrimination, barriers to equality, and threats to social justice.
The symposium will be held at the InterContinental Washington, DC Hotel at the Wharf on October 23-24, 2017. It is aimed at those interested in the social and policy implications of computing research, and members of the computing community who wish to learn more about current trends in computing and its implications for addressing societal needs. To learn more and see the full list of speakers, please check out the Symposium Website and Agenda.
If you are interested in attending, please register for the Symposium here by September 15th. The CCC will cover all local expenses at the event (hotel and food). If you need additional financial assistance for travel, please contact us.
We hope you will be able to join us. If you have any questions, please contact CCC Director Ann Drobnis at [email protected].