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Advances in technology come with countless benefits for society, but these advances sometimes introduce new risks as well. Various characteristics of technology, including its increasing complexity, may present novel challenges in understanding its impact and addressing its risks. Regulatory agencies have broad jurisdiction to protect consumers against certain harmful practices (typically called “deceptive and unfair” practices in the United States), but sophisticated technical analysis may be necessary to assess practices, risks, and more. Moreover, consumer protection covers an incredibly broad range of issues, from substantiation of claims that a smartphone app provides advertised health benefits to the adequacy of practices for securing sensitive customer data.

The Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection (ConPro ’17) will explore computer science topics with an impact on consumers. This workshop has a strong security and privacy slant, with an overall focus on ways in which computer science can prevent, detect, or address the potential for technology to deceive or unfairly harm consumers. Attendees will skew towards academic and industry researchers but will include researchers from government agencies with a consumer protection mission, including the Federal Trade Commission—the U.S. government’s primary consumer protection body. Research advances presented at the workshop may help improve the lives of consumers, and discussions at the event may help researchers understand how their work can best promote consumer welfare given laws and norms surrounding consumer protection.

For more information, see the call for papers.

Welcome to the IFIP International Information Security and Privacy Conference Web Site. The SEC conferences are a series of well-established international conferences on Security and Privacy. SEC is the flagship event of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Technical Committee 11 (TC-11).

The 10th World Information Security Education Conference – WISE10 (hosted by IFIP WG 11.8) is co-located with IFIP SEC 2017. It will take place between Monday May 29th an Wednesday May 31st. Please visit the WISE10 website for more details.

The IFIP WG11.4 Workshop – iNetSec on “Open Problems in Network Security” is co-located with IFIP SEC 2017. It will take place between Tuesday May 30th and Wednesday May 31st 2017, which will be included in the schedule of the IFIP SEC conference program. Please visit the iNetSec website for the call for paper.

The conference will be hosted at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) that is located in Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 7 (zipcode 00185, Rome, Italy), in the city centre of Rome, and near the main train station (Termini). The place is in front of the main University in Rome (“La Sapienza”).

The New York location is sold out, but there is still room to register for the Live Webcast on May 30-31, 2017.  To register, click on the Webcast tab above to navigate to the Webcast page.

Why You Should Attend       

This program focuses on current critical issues of information privacy, cybersecurity and data protection faced by all companies.  The Internet and evolving mobile and virtualized information technologies, wired and wireless, have prompted the development of powerful tools for the collection, processing, storage and use of personal information.   More than ever, businesses are becoming digital and data driven.  These trends create a wide range of compliance risk and liability issues regarding corporate rights to use personal information.  They also raise the stakes for protecting such data in increasingly challenging risk environments, ranging from internal vulnerabilities to criminal cyberhackers and other persistent threats.  Legislators, regulators and the courts are rapidly developing new law and compliance obligations to address the privacy and security implications of expanding information economy and its continuously evolving risks.  This annual conference focuses on these developments with the goal of keeping attorneys and other privacy professionals informed and up-to-date in this complex and dynamic area of laws and regulations.

What You Will Learn

• The roots of privacy law in the U.S. and around the world
• A discussion of the risks and challenges of the Internet of Things & Big Data
• Current consumer privacy enforcement priorities of the FTC and state attorneys general
• How to manage privacy and cybersecurity risk in business deals
• Latest developments in workplace privacy law, including employee surveillance trends and how to establish an employee training program
• Ethical and cyber-risk management issues for lawyers in using information technology
• What you need to know about cyber insurance
• Litigation issues: how to avoid them and manage them once you’re in
• The impact of GDPR & Privacy Shield
• Key developments in global privacy
• Hear directly from CPOs, CISOs and CCOs  

Special Features

• Step-by-step analysis of a cyber-attack using a cyber-attack simulation
• Earn one hour of CLE Ethics credit
• Earn Continuing Privacy Education credit

PLI Group Discounts

Groups of 4-14 from the same organization, all registering at the same time, for a PLI program scheduled for presentation at the same site, are entitled to receive a group discount. For further discount information, please contact [email protected] or call (800) 260-4PLI.

PLI Can Arrange Group Viewing to Your Firm

Contact the Groupcasts Department via email at [email protected] for more details.

Cancellations

All cancellations received 3 business days prior to the program will be refunded 100%. If you do not cancel within the allotted time period, payment is due in full. You may substitute another individual to attend the program at any time.

Facebook is hosting its third annual Privacy@Scale on May 31 at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California to coincide with the Privacy Law Scholars Conference in Berkeley. RSVP on the website here.

At this year’s conference, we’ll convene the privacy community to explore what it means to be a responsible actor when it comes to data & technology – across topics like artificial intelligence, social good, virtual reality, and design.

Highlights include:

• Short technical talks from a drones ecologist Professor Lian Pin Kohand oncologist Dr. Jenny Chang who is championing artificial intelligence for faster detection of breast cancer
• A keynote from MIT Media Lab’s Sandy Pentland
• An 80-minute Design Jamwhere participants will use design thinking to give people better visibility and control over their data
• A discussion on algorithmic accountability, kicked off with a short technical talk from a Facebook Accessibility Engineer
• Demos of Oculus Rift

The full agenda can be found on the website. We’ll get started at 9 AM and we hope you’ll join us for a happy hour from 4 – 5 PM at the conclusion of the day.

PLSC assembles privacy law scholars and practitioners from around the world to discuss current issues and foster greater connections between academia and practice. It brings together privacy law scholars, privacy scholars from other disciplines (economics, philosophy, political science, computer science), and practitioners (industry, legal, advocacy, and government).

PLSC is a paper workshop. There are no published proceedings, and after the event, papers are not available. Because authors’ drafts are works in progress, we do not publicly release these writings, nor do we publicize them (no Tweeting, blogging, etc.), as authors’ ideas are often inchoate and need incubation for full development.

At PLSC, papers workshops are led by a “commenter” who facilitates a discussion among participants on an author’s paper. Authors are encouraged to participate in “listening” mode. There are no panels or talking head events at PLSC.

All participants are expected to read and be prepared to discuss one paper per session (usually a total of 8 papers), and thus PLSC requires significant preparation. We recommended that participants devote 1.5 to 2 days of reading to prepare prior to the conference. One does not need to submit a paper to participate in PLSC–indeed most participants do not.

PLSC is an annual event, alternating between Berkeley Law and The George Washington University School of Law. Participation is by invitation only. Last year, PLSC had 260 participants.

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PRIVACY PROFESSIONALS PAPER AWARD

The International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) is sponsoring an award for two papers presented at PLSC. The two winning authors will each receive $2500 from IAPP, an opportunity to present the paper at the IAPP Privacy Academy 2017 (travel will be provided for up to two authors of each paper), and an opportunity to publish an abstract or summary of the paper in the Privacy Advisor. The criteria are overall excellence and relevance to the practice of privacy law.

Join ATI for policy forums that bring key constituents together to craft a path forward to a modern mobility future. Four sessions over two months will move the needle on national policies and regulations to enable autonomous vehicle deployment.

Right now, there is a great deal of misunderstanding, fear and legitimate concern surrounding data use, ownership and privacy that could easily derail self-driving initiatives. Data is the lifeblood of innovation, and we must be able to collect and share this information appropriately in order to see the benefits of a truly autonomous transportation system.

Join us on June 2 for a broad discussion on:

• Data Sharing
• Data Security
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

This session will be a fascinating exploration of the policy challenge before us. NHTSA Associate Administrator for Safety Research Nat Beuse will join us once again, joined this time by the General Accounting Office’s David Wise (author of the 2016 Vehicle Cybersecurity report), Jamie Boone from the Consumer Technology Association, Lauren Smith from the Future of Privacy Forum as well as DLA Piper’s Elliot Katz.

For more information and to register visit ATI21 AV Policy Series