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The Biometrics Institute is excited to announce we are holding our inaugural US Conference in 2017. This one day conference will follow the same successful format as our other international events. The focus of the meeting is discussion and interaction and is led by industry experts including:
– Dan Tanciar, Deputy Executive Director, DHS – CBP
– Kenneth Gantt, Deputy Director, DHS – Office of Biometric Identity Management
– David Satola, World Bank
– Chris Boehnen, IARPA
– Norberto Andrade, Facebook
– Renee Ong de Jong, Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, The Netherlands
– Mark Gianturco, National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children
– Sue Black, University of Dundee, UK
– Joseph Atick, Identity Counsel International
– National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace
– Jim Loudermilk, Senior Level Technologist Science and Technology Branch, FBI
– Amanda Koulousias, Federal Trade Commission
– Jeffrey Neuburger, Proskauer
This US event will feature several debates, discussions and a number of ‘conversations’ around the key themes of:
– Identity chain and building trust
– Perceptions of privacy
– Vulnerabilities
– Social impact
– Innovation
If you are interested in sponsorship or speaking opportunities, please contact [email protected].
Workshops
We are also hosting two workshops:
– A two day Introduction to Biometrics Short Course: 29-30 March, Washington DC
– A half day Facial Recognition workshop on the 27th March, Washington DC
Please visit the webpages for more information and to register.
Gold Sponsors:
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Bronze Sponsors:
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REGISTRATION FEES:
Please note that preference is given to members and end users. Non-members can register at the non-member fee but spaces will be subject to availability.
Please note the following registration fees.
User = government agency or other user of biometric technologies i.e. financial institution.
Supplier = system integrator, consultant, manufacturer etc
Member User: GBP 250
Member Supplier: GBP 400
Non-Member User: GBP 400
Non-Member Supplier: GBP 850
VENUE
Mary Gates Learning Centre
Access Now is proud to bring you the sixth installment of RightsCon, the world’s leading event on the future of the internet. Together we are shaping the global conversation about how to keep the internet open, free, and secure.
At RightsCon Silicon Valley 2016, we brought together more than 1,100 attendees from 84 countries and more than 500 organizations. This upcoming Spring 2017 in Brussels, Belgium we’re gathering the global digital rights community in the heart of European politics and policymaking to host our most impactful RightsCon yet.
Together at RightsCon Brussels 2017, we’ll tackle the most pressing issues at the intersection of technology and human rights. If you have an idea for something you’d like to see happening there, tell us about it!
| This course will enable you to understand the concepts of security, risk and privacy compliance, as they apply to the various cloud computing environments. It provides you with a structured guide on how to successfully move data into a cloud service provider while gaining assurance that security of that data will not be compromised, privacy rules will be complied with and cloud service agreements will be fit for the purposes.
Learning outcomes |
This symposium will explore the legal and ethical implications of big data discrimination and algorithmic-derived discrimination. Recent reports have indicated that big data tools and algorithmic-driven decision making protocols can be used to isolate, analyze, and discriminate against individuals based on race, gender, religion, voting habits, residency, consumer behaviors, health status, and other data characteristics. This Symposium aims to deepen the conversation on the impact of the growth of algorithmic-centered power in the private and public sectors.
Hosted by:
- Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice, Washington and Lee University School of Law
Cosponsored by:
- Provost’s Office, Washington and Lee University
- Class of 1960 Institute for Honor
- Frances Lewis Law Center, Washington and Lee University School of Law
- Mudd Center for Ethics, Washington and Lee University
- Washington and Lee Black Law Students Association
- Future of Privacy Forum
- Data & Society Research Institute
SYMPOSIUM AGENDA
10:00 – 10:10 am
Welcome
Brant J. Hellwig, Dean, Washington and Lee University School of Law
10:10 – 11:30 am Panel Discussion
BIG DATA ETHICS IN RESEARCH METHODS
Moderator:
Victoria Shannon Sahani, Associate Professor of Law, Washington and Lee School of Law
Panelists:
Deven Desai, Associate Professor, Law and Ethics Program, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Tech
Mark Van Hollebeke, Privacy Practitioner-in-Residence at Data & Society Research Institute, Senior Privacy Strategist, Microsoft
Janine Hiller, Professor of Business Law, Department of Finance, Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech
Jules Polonetsky, CEO, Future of Privacy Forum
Kevin Werbach, Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
11:30 – 11:45 am
Break
11:45 am – 12:40 pm
Lunch and Keynote
Introduction: Margaret Hu, Associate Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University School of Law
Keynote: Charlton McIlwain, Associate Dean of Faculty Development & Diversity, and Associate Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, Steinhardt School, New York University
12:40 – 12:50 pm
Break
12:50 – 2:00 pm Panel Discussion
UNDERSTANDING BIG DATA DISCRIMINATION
Moderator:
Anjanette (Angie) Raymond, Assistant Professor of Business Law and Ethics, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Panelists:
Dennis Hirsch, Professor of Law and Director, Program on Data and Governance, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and Professor of Law, Capital University Law School [via Skype]
Anne Washington, Assistant Professor, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University
Christopher Wolf, Partner, Hogan Lovells & Founder, Future of Privacy Forum
2:00 – 2:10 pm
Break
2:10 – 3:20 pm Panel Discussion
IMPACT OF BIG DATA-CENTERED & ALGORITHMIC-CENTERED POWER
Moderator:
Rachel Levinson-Waldman, Senior Counsel, Liberty and National Security Program, Brennan Center for Justice, New York University School of Law
Panelists:
Jessica Eaglin, Assistant Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Joshua Fairfield, Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University School of Law
Margaret Hu, Associate Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University School of Law
Amos Jones, Associate Professor of Law, Campbell University Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law
3:20 – 3:30 pm
Closing Remarks
Charli Gibbs-Tabler, Symposium Editor, Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice, Washington and Lee University School of Law
Please join us at a poster session celebrating the final projects of
the IPSI course “Seminar in Identity, Privacy and Security”. This
year’s final projects cover a wide range of topics on current
practices and emerging applications within the cyber physical and
social system, which include privacy and security issues related to
the smart grid, health informatics and cloud computing. Students will
provide an in-depth discussion on potential solutions for the issues,
such as policy changes and technical implementations. Refreshments
will be served.
We Robot fosters conversations between the people designing, building, and deploying robots and the people who design or influence the legal and social structures in which robots will operate.
This conference will build on a growing body of scholarship exploring how the increasing sophistication and autonomous decision-making capabilities of robots and their widespread deployment everywhere from the home, to hospitals, to public spaces, to the battlefield disrupts existing legal regimes or requires rethinking policy issues. We are particularly interested this year in “solutions,” i.e., projects with a normative or practical thesis aimed at helping to resolve questions around contemporary and anticipated robotic applications.
HoTSoS is a research event centered on the Science of Security, which aims to address the fundamental problems of security in a principled manner.
The 2017 HoTSoS event, scheduled for April 4-5, 2017 in Hanover, Maryland, will bring together researchers from diverse disciplines to promote advancement of work related to the science of security. The conference will feature a mix of invited talks, panels, tutorials, and refereed papers to be published by ACM.
The Science of Security (SoS) emphasizes the advancement of research methods as well as the development of new research results. This dual focus is intended to improve both the confidence we gain from scientific results and also the capacity and efficiency through which we address increasingly technical problems.
U.S. technology companies are global leaders in providing cloud computing services for users around the world. This innovation is a critical underpinning of the 21st Century U.S. economy and job growth. However, technology companies are increasingly threatened by the current legal framework that lacks clarity about the application of various national laws, creating conflicting requirements for cloud service providers to turn over customers’ data.
At the same time, law enforcement efforts in the U.S. and around the world are increasingly frustrated by difficulties in accessing data located across borders. At the heart of this problem, outdated laws establish barriers in accessing data based on the location of where it happens to be. Meanwhile, the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) system and other data sharing agreements no longer provide for efficient access to critical data stored across national boundaries.
The current system is bad for both U.S. economic growth and law enforcement.
Join us for a discussion, along with remarks by Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), about what’s wrong with the current system, and how Congress needs to act to update the legal framework to help U.S. companies better compete across national borders and facilitate law enforcement access to data that is needed for critical investigations.
Refreshments will be served.
Featuring Remarks by Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
Panel Speakers:
- Jen Daskal:Associate Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law (WCL)
- David Lieber:Senior Privacy Policy Counsel, Google
- Greg Nojeim, Director, Freedom, Security & Technology Project,Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT)
- David LeDuc: Senior Director of Public Policy, SIIA(Moderator)
Please RSVP for this Discussion
This event is designed to be widely attended and in compliance with all Congressional Ethics rules.
This event will be provided at no cost by the
Software & Information Industry Association.
About SIIA
SIIA is an umbrella association representing 800+ technology, data and media companies globally. Industry leaders work through SIIA’s divisions to address issues and challenges that impact their industry segments with the goal of driving innovation and growth for the industry and each member company. This is accomplished through in-person and online business development opportunities, peer networking, corporate education, intellectual property protection and government relations. For more information, visit our website.
Call for Team Participation
Dates: April 5-7, 2017
Times: 5 p.m. 4/5/17 to 4 p.m. 4/7/17
Location: April 5th & 6th -TBA, April 7th -Friend Center Convocation Room, Princeton University
Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP), in collaboration with the Center for Digital Humanities, is hosting a workshop that explores the security and privacy concerns that arise from Internet-connected devices in smart homes and cities.
We solicit teams of computer scientists, engineers, designers, artists, legal scholars, and social theorists to come together and design systems that can provide users with more visibility into and control over the behavior of the devices that they connect to their networks, ultimately giving people more agency over these devices. Existing efforts to improve IoT privacy and security have begun to explore ways to visualize and control data flows from these devices, but many of these designs could be informed by insights from architects, designers, and sociologists as well as critical theories of design. The workshop plans to bring people together from these diverse knowledge bases to enrich and enhance existing approaches to security and privacy in smart homes and cities.
The designs developed at the workshop may have different goals. For example, in a smart home with multiple inhabitants, participants may develop designs that improve security or privacy in ways that incorporate a variety of living arrangements and user interests. Another design goal might be to allow communities to seamlessly communicate with manufacturers about privacy and security issues that they discover.
We are inviting teams of 3-5 people to come to Princeton University for the workshop. Each team will provide an analysis of a security or privacy concern related to smart homes or cities and develop an intervention to address that concern.
Teams may choose a device (or devices) to work with ahead of time, or make use of a set of devices that will be made available at the workshop. To facilitate prototyping and design, we will provide a Raspberry Pi-based system that inspects traffic on a network and provides users with rudimentary capabilities for visualizing and controlling traffic flows on that network. All teams will be asked to document their activities after the workshop in a short report. Teams may wish to use the workshop as a starting point to participate in the FTC’s “IoT Home Inspector Challenge.”
Potential teams should submit an application that includes:
- a short statement of interest describing questions and methods you plan to bring to the workshop, as well as a brief description of a possible intervention you would design.
- a list of team members (3-5 per team), including short biographies of each member.
We encourage teams whose members span a broad range of backgrounds, possibly spanning fields including computer science, design, urban studies, arts, and architecture.
Costs and Travel Support:
There is no registration fee for the workshop. We have limited funds to support three external teams with a budget of up to $1,000, and a total budget of $3,000 to offer honorarium to independent artists and designers that participate in the workshop. If you are in need of funding for participation, we kindly ask you to indicate this in your application with a short justification.
Important Dates:
- Applications due: February 24, 2017
- Decisions on applications: March 3, 2017
More About The Workshop:
- Applications for team participants for the three-day event can be submitted here
- A separate event webpage will be availabe soon for people who would like to attend the public portion of the workshop on Friday, April 7, 2017. This portion will be held in the Friend Center Convocation Room on the Princeton University campus. A link will be provided for attendees (not participants) to RSVP at a later date.
This workshop is part of the CITP Project Agonistic Algorithms put together by Carl DiSalvo (Georgia Tech), Nick Feamster (Princeton University), Seda Gurses (Princeton University, Leuven), and Janet Vertesi (Princeton University) and is produced in collaboration with the Center for Digital Humanities. The workshop is part of an ongoing effort to explore how theories of agonistic pluralism—which champions a diversity of perspectives, affect, and contestation as foundational to democratic politics—might be brought to bear on computational media and systems design. Adversarial design refers to such practice and, in the context of this workshop, its combination with adversarial modeling in computer science privacy and security research.
For further questions, please email [email protected]
The successful deployment of smart grids is predicated on the ability
to guarantee their security. Such a requirement is of paramount
importance since electrical grids are essential to several components
of the critical infrastructure. Recent cyber security incidents and
security research studies demonstrate that electrical grids could be
subjected to disrupting attacks that might lead to severe security and
economic consequences, and even to the endangerment and loss of human
lives. In this talk, we will first present the ongoing activities of
our research program on smart grid security. We will then, present
some of our recent research contributions in terms of the detection
and the mitigation of delay attacks on time synchronization. In
addition, we will discuss our recent ongoing research on security
metrics for the smart grid.