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In the era of big data analytics, prediction of a person’s behavior or attitude is becoming more and more accurate. But because of the nature of these new methods of predictive analysis, it is not always clear what factors are contributing to these outcomes. It is possible then that the new methods are replicating old discriminatory patterns. What should data analytics firms, government and the public do to protect against the risks of big data discrimination? Join a panel of experts and Georgetown CCT Faculty for a timely and informative discussion of this crucial issue.
Moderator: Mark MacCarthy, CCT
Panelists:
Meg Jones, CCT
Ashkan Soltani, Chief Technology Officer at the Federal Trade Commission
Solon Baracas, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University
When: Monday, March 23rd starting at 4:30 PM
Where: Walsh 495, Georgetown University
The Internet of Things (IoT) is shaping up to the be the next mega-trend, following the major shifts to mobile and cloud computing that have shaped the last decade in technology. IoT will have far-reaching effects beyond technology to touch every industry from healthcare to retail to oil and gas exploration. Our increasingly connected world of devices with intelligent interfaces seamlessly integrated into the Internet – or the IoT – presents immense opportunity for business growth and benefits to society. By 2020, Internet of Things spending is estimated to total $1.9 trillion and with this growth comes new challenges as well. This rapidly developing market of health wearables, connected homes, smart cities and vehicle-to-vehicle communication will redically change computing and human interaction; however, in order to realize the economic and societal benefits of IoT, consumer trust will be imperative. The biggest barriers to adoption remain concerns around privacy and security.
Please join us for a morning panel discussion addressing these issues at the Microsoft Innovation & Policy Center on Thursday, March 26th. The event will engage speakers and the audience in an exploration of where the right balance is between data minimization and innovation. The conversation will touch on the opportunities and challenges that face the IoT and ways we can ensure a vibrant, reliable, and trusted Internet of Things ecosystem – both domestically and overseas.
Mobile devices are collecting and disseminating a wealth of data about our health—from smartphone-based glucose monitors to Wi-Fi–enabled pacemakers. These innovations allow patients, doctors, and the business world to identify, manage, and research ailments in an unprecedented way. At the same time, the accumulation of this information by corporations and health care providers raises questions about whom our data belongs to, and who is responsible for keeping it safe. Haphazard privacy regulations and inadequate security measures are already putting this highly sensitive data at risk of being leaked or hacked. As health care goes digital, how much access should we have to the information we’re generating, and what can we do to keep it from unfriendly eyes?
Follow the discussion online using #MobileHealth and follow @FutureTenseNow.
Agenda
12:00 PM: Whose Data is it Anyway?
Sara M. Watson
Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University
@smwat
Deborah Estrin
Professor, Computer Science, Cornell Tech & Co-Founder, Open mHealth
@deborahestrin
Joel Selanikio
CEO & Co-Founder, Magpi & Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Georgetown University
@jselanikio
Moderator: Sherwin Siy
Vice President of Legal Affairs, Public Knowledge
@SherwinPK
12:50 PM: Hacking Demo
Kevin Fu
Director, Archimedes Research Center for Medical Device Security, University of Michigan
1:10 PM: Will Health Tech Ever be Hack Proof?
Kevin Fu
Director, Archimedes Research Center for Medical Device Security, University of Michigan
Lucia Savage
Chief Privacy Officer, National Coordinator for Health IT
@SavageLucia
Alvaro Bedoya
Executive Director, Center on Privacy and Technology, Georgetown
@alvarombedoya
Moderator: Peter Singer
Strategist and Senior Fellow, New America
@peterwsinger
One year on from the publication of the APEC-EU referential, this third Webinar in the TRUSTe 2015 Privacy Insight Series will review the latest developments with APEC Cross Border Privacy Rules (CBPR), Binding Corporate Rules (BCR) and the EU Safe Harbor negotiations. Register now to hear from a panel of experts who have either been closely involved in working towards greater interoperability of these different frameworks or have first-hand experience of taking their company through the process.
For more information, click here.
Denver IAPP Knowledgenet
Speaker:
Teresa Troester-Falk, CIPP/US, Chief Global Privacy Strategist, Nymity
For more information, click here.
Rice President David Leebron and Rice Professor Dan Wallach will join Congressman Ted Poe and other members of Congress and others for a bipartisan policy forum exploring the application of the Fourth Amendment on technological advances.
For so long, it was possible to watch the new General Data Protection Regulation debate from the sidelines but as politicians get closer to final consensus finally the time has come to start to take action. Given the complexity of introducing new global compliance initiatives, now is the time to assess the potential impact of the proposed Regulation on your business and ensure you have the budget, tools and plan in place to respond. In this fourth webinar in the TRUSTe Privacy Insight Series, privacy experts will share their insights on the final requirements in the proposed EU General Data Protection regulation and what businesses need to do to prepare for changes ahead.
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This exclusive invitation-only Roundtable event will review how top global companies are using privacy assessments in the TRUSTe 2015 Privacy Assessment Benchmarking Study and empower you to evaluate your privacy management, gain insight on what other organizations are doing, identify gaps and report with confidence on the status of your privacy program to management. Find out how your data privacy management stacks-up. As the TRUSTe Privacy Insight Series arrives in London, request an invitation today and equip yourself with insights from renowned speakers, interactive workshop sessions, case studies and practical solutions to today’s tough privacy challenges.
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9:45 – 11:00 a.m. Big Data: Privacy Challenges of the Internet of All Things
Panelists:
Sheila Colclasure, Americas Global Public Policy and Privacy Officer
Joanne McNabb, California Attorney General’s Office
Michael Scott, Professor, Southwestern Law Schoo
Moderator: Jonathan Avila, Chief Privacy Officer, Walmart
11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Government Access to Data: Surveillance, Privacy and Security After Snowden
Panelists:
Jon Callas, Co-Founder, Blackphone and Co-founder and CTO, Silent Circle
Timothy Edgar, Visiting Fellow, Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies and Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Moderator: Lee Tien, Senior Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation
1:00 – 2:15 p.m.
Lunch and A Conversation With: Travis LeBlanc, Chief of the Enforcement Bureau, Federal Communications Commission
2:30 – 4:00 p.m.
The Evolution of the Privacy & Security Landscape throughout the World
Panelists:
Melinda Claybaugh, Counsel for International Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission
Pam Dixon, Executive Director, World Privacy Forum
Paola Zeni, Vice President Legal, Symantec
Moderator: Francoise Gilbert, Founder and Managing Director, IT Law Group
4:30 – 5:45 p.m. Celebrity and Privacy/Publicity Rights
Panelists:
Deborah Drooz, Of Counsel, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck
Neville Johnson, Founding Partner, Johnson & Johnson
Moderator: John Tehranian, Professor, Southwestern Law School
A key aspect of the debate on Big Data is the potential for privacy breach by corporations, malicious individuals, and governments. Given the apparent tradeoff, but yet unexplored links between Big Data and Privacy, we will host a workshop sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a forward-looking agenda for research on the legal, technological, social, behavioral, economic, and broader implications of Big Data and Privacy in academia, industry, and government. The purpose of this NSF workshop is to bring together experts in the domain of big data and privacy to develop a research agenda for better understanding and promoting privacy in an era of big data.
The NSF workshop aims to bring academia, industry, and government from multiple disciplines, such as legal, technological, social, behavioral, and economic sciences to discuss how to establish meaningful collaborations to undertake the research agenda. The NSF workshop will be structured around four main topics:
- tradeoff between benefits of big data and privacy protection
- legal, public policy and regulatory issues on privacy
- privacy protection technologies
- social, behavior and economics approaches to encouraging individual privacy protection
The NSF workshop will attempt to answer these questions by facilitating brainstorming among experts through invited talks, panel discussions, and group exercises. These sessions will provide concrete directions for guiding future research on Big Data and privacy, which in turn will provide inputs both to technology design as well as public policy.
The research agenda will be disseminated broadly to academics, practitioners, and government officials to raise awareness of the importance of the tradeoff between big data and privacy and facilitate greater interest and collaboration among academia, industry, and government. The key points from the NSF workshop will be published in a white paper with the aim to advance a multi-disciplinary scientific inquiry on big data and privacy among academia, industry, and government. The NSF workshop will also guide curriculum development for courses related to Big Data and privacy in business, information and law schools.