Unlocking the Privacy-Security Debate

March 20, 2017

Event Time:

9:00am – 12:00pm

Location:

Beus Center for Law & Society – Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law

Room 544 – Fifth Floor Conference Center

111 E. Taylor Street, Phoenix, AZ 85004

Terrorism and cybersecurity are two significant national security threats that the global community must deal with in the coming decade. The current approach of mass surveillance and reducing the strength of encryption have questionable and potentially detrimental effects that lead to concerns about the invasion of privacy and undermining freedom and prosperity. Leaders from government, industry, and academia will come together in this open forum to discuss current methods of combating terrorism and cybersecurity threats and the need to establish win-win, positive-sum methods. By addressing these concerns, we can begin the complex and necessary process of simultaneously enhancing security and protecting our privacy.

To register or for more information, click here. 

Attendees are eligible for up to 2 CLE credits. 

Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall
Milstein East C (Room 2036, second floor)
RSVP required to attend in person
Event will be live webcast at 12:00 pm

As the internet connects makers, manufacturers and shippers across supply chains, a new form of producing and distributing global objects is arising, one that relies more on bottom up networks than top down oversight. When you look carefully, you see the signs of them: in the US, they might be t-shirts with hashtags on them, pussyhats at marches, and creative protest signs, and in Shenzhen, China, we see a plethora of hardware objects, such as selfie sticks, hoverboards and e-cigarettes, that rapidly reach global markets. What sorts of objects do new forms of hardware culture enable, and what role does the internet now play in all steps along the way, from ideation to sales to manufacturing to shipping? How might we now incorporate physical objects into our notions of internet memes? And what does this suggest about the future of object culture more generally?

About An

An Xiao Mina is a technologist and writer who looks at issues of the global internet and networked creativity. As a Berkman Klein Fellow, she will study the impact of language barriers in our technology stack as the internet extends into diverse communities around the world, and she will continue her ongoing research on global internet meme culture.

Mina leads the product team at Meedan, where they are building digital tools for journalists and translators, and she is co-founder of The Civic Beat, a research collective focused on the creative side of civic technology. She serves as a contributing editor to Civicist, an advisory editor to Hyperallergic, and a governing board member at China Residencies.

She has spoken at venues like the Personal Democracy Forum, ACM SIGCHI, Creative Mornings, the Aspen Institute, RightsCon and the Institute for the Future, and she has contributed writing to publications like the Los Angeles Review of Books, Fusion, the New Inquiry, Nieman Journalism Lab, Places Journal and others.

Recently a 2016 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow, where she studied online language barriers and their impact on journalism, Mina is currently working on a book about internet memes and global social movements (working title: “Memes to Movements”), to be published by Beacon Press.

Join WilmerHale for the next session of the 2017 Cybersecurity, Privacy and Communications Webinar Series, during which WilmerHale Partner Heather Zachary and Senior Associate Nicole Ewart will explore the current financial privacy landscape.

This presentation will offer practical guidance not only for financial institutions, but also for service providers, FinTech companies, and other entities that process or store consumer financial information. The webinar also will provide guidance to companies outside the financial sector that use credit reports or other consumer reports, or that provide analyses to third parties on consumers, employees or applicants for employment.

Topics of discussion include:

• complying with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the Right to Financial Privacy Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act and state financial privacy laws;
• navigating restrictions on the use, sharing and monetization of “nonpublic personal information” and other financial data;
• responding to government requests for customer financial information;
• identifying activities that can convert a business into a “consumer reporting agency,” and the consequences of that designation;
• obtaining and using consumer reports in various contexts, including employment; and
• enforcement and litigation trends.

Participants will have the opportunity to contribute questions online and interact with panelists throughout the webinar.

Young people are growing up in a digital world of constant connectivity – engaging 24/7 through social media, mobile devices, gaming platforms, and video streaming channels.  While offering important opportunities for youth to express their creativity, explore and learn, interact with their peers, and participate in civic discourse, contemporary digital media can also pose threats to their privacy and can negatively impact their development. Children and teens spend or influence an estimated $1.2 trillion a year worldwide. Media companies, programmers, and advertisers are developing hundreds of new digital ventures designed to tap into this growing lucrative youth global market.

OBJECTIVES

This special half day meeting brings together consumer and privacy advocates, academics, policy makers, and industry representatives for a focused roundtable discussion to:

– identify the key issues raised by emerging trends in contemporary children’s digital media

– assess the current state of regulatory policy in both the EU and the United States

– exchange perspectives from various stakeholders

– highlight opportunities for consensus building and collaboration

– begin crafting an agenda for collaborative transatlantic strategies and policies.

REGISTRATION

Registration for the event is now open. Those interested are kindly recommended to register their participation by completing and submitting the Online Registration Form no later than Tuesday, 14 March 2017.

PROGRAMME AND CONCEPT NOTE

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Join Knight-Wallace Fellows Bastian Obermayer and Laurent Richard as they discuss their work in investigating and reporting on the Panama Papers and Luxembourg Leaks. This discussion will focus on privacy and IT security challenges when engaging in high-profile, international investigatory journalism in the digital age.

Our March speaker is Justin Troutman, creator of PocketBlock. Ultimately, PocketBlock is about advancing security education and literacy, using cryptography as a driver.

PocketBlock is the first initiative in a cross-disciplined space he’s dubbed CRUX, or cryptography + user experience. PocketBlock’s interactive curricula aims to introduce the concepts behind modern cryptography, by scaling down, and sometimes completely stripping away, the mathematical complexities; instead, it relies heavily on visuals and “moves”, instead of formulaic calculations. Because of the malleability and scalability of this approach, it’s suitable for everyone from an 8-year-old grade schooler all the way to a tenured developer.

Cultivated through various workshops at Cal Poly SLO’s EPIC, Facebook’s Hacktober and Hacker Girls Summer Camp, and r00tz Asylum at Defcon, PocketBlock serves as a bridge between classical and modern cryptography; it’s an effective catalyst within STEAM initiatives for making cryptography accessible as a potential career path, and also encourages more meaningful dialogue between seasoned developers tasked with implementing strong cryptography, yet without prior knowledge.

During Privacy Lab, Justin will take us through a quick look at Pockenacci, an authenticated block cipher for introducing the concepts of key schedules, S-boxes, and P-boxes. He’ll also discuss current development of new ciphers, including a scaled down version of the Advanced Encryption Standard. Also in the works is a narrative-driven, episodic interactive Web adventure (e.g., think Zork in 2017) that involves making and breaking ciphers, PocketBlock style, in order to complete missions and level up.

Data Mapping and Article 30 – How to Scale in Practice

Broadcast Date: March 23, 2017
Time: 11:00 a.m. – Noon ET, 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. GMT

The deadline to be in compliance with the GDPR is a little over a year away. Organizations seeking to have their houses in order next spring are busy implementing the necessary policies and controls to understand and manage their data flows. Article 30 of the new law spells out in detail that regulatory authorities can, at their discretion, request records of your organization’s personal data processing activities.

So how will you do this efficiently across the many business arms of your organization? How will you prioritize what data to map and track, and what doesn’t require this level of attention? Who should be involved in these data mapping and inventory activities?

Join us for this informational web conference and hear from data privacy experts the answers to these questions and more. Time will be allocated to field your anonymous questions.

What you’ll take away:

• How to prioritize, how much time to allocate, and what reports to generate
• Questionnaires vs. Intelligent Data Flow Scanning
• In-house vs. third party resources
• Keeping it evergreen and up to date
• Re-using existing IT tools

Speakers:
Kabir Barday, CIPP/US, CIPM, CIPT, CEO, OneTrust
Sabrina Houlton, Assistant General Counsel, Data Privacy & Security, United Technologies Corporation
Veronika Tonry, CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT, FIP, President, Privacy Know How, LLC