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Technology is transforming society on many fronts. In recent years, we have seen the rise of social media and the sharing economy, a sustained move from atoms to bits, and the rapid development of cloud computing, big data, smart devices, and robotics. Along with these developments we see a continuous stream of new legal and regulatory issues. For every problem solved, two new problems seem to surface.
When looking at current phenomena, it is particularly notable that that everything seems to be connected. Individuals are being connected through networks and data flows from and through connected devices; the field of Data Science seems to revolve around connecting the dots between various bits of data and between data and persons. Disciplines and regulatory domains are also increasingly connected: contemporary issues require involvement from legal scholars, regulation and governance scholars, and social scientists, who must work together, but who also occasionally clash. Similarly, different domains of law become intertwined, such as public law and private law or data protection and intellectual property, but do not always coexist harmoniously. Regulation is no longer the prerogative of sovereign states; rather, complex interconnected multi-level governance arrangements are at play.
Conference theme
These developments and transformations give good reason to adopt ‘Regulating a connected world’ as the theme for the 5th Bi-annual TILTing Perspectives conference on the intersection of law, technology, and society. While recent TILTing conferences had a specific focus, ‘robotics and neurotechnologies’ in 2011, ‘health and surveillance’ in 2015, the 2017 conference will open the floor to an entire spectrum of topics and disciplines under the broad umbrella of law, technology and society.
The conference
TILTing 2017 brings together researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and civil society at the intersection of law and regulation, technology, and society to share insights, exchange ideas and formulate, discuss and suggest answers to contemporary challenges related to technological innovation. The conference will include plenary sessions, parallel sessions, and panel discussions with invited speakers, as well as presentations from respondents to this call for papers.
The conference features five large tracks: Privacy, Health, Intellectual property, Data Science, and PLSC Europe. But within the context of these general tracks, we are adopting an open and bottom-up organizational strategy: it is up to you (the participants) to determine what happens at the conference and how. With that in mind, we invite scholars, practitioners, policy makers, and others, to propose papers, workshops, panels, mini-symposia and the like, both within and in addition to the large tracks. If you have an idea and would like to check whether it fits the open theme of the conference, feel free to contact [email protected]
GikII Workshop
TILTing 2017 will contain a ‘GikII’ inspired event. On Friday afternoon, or even Friday all day submissions permitting, we will host a GikII style Workshop. GikII brings together the worlds of law, technology and popular culture.
The Fifth Annual Conference on Governance of Emerging Technologies:
Law, Policy and Ethics held at the new
Beus Center for Law & Society in Phoenix, AZ
May 17-19, 2017!
Call for Abstracts – Now Closed
| The conference will consist of plenary and session presentations and discussions on regulatory, governance, legal, policy, social and ethical aspects of emerging technologies, including (but not limited to) nanotechnology, synthetic biology, gene editing, biotechnology, genomics, personalized medicine, human enhancement technologies, telecommunications, information technologies, surveillance technologies, geoengineering, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and robotics. The conference is premised on the belief that there is much to be learned and shared from and across the governance experience and proposals for these various emerging technologies.Some particular themes that will be emphasized at this year’s conference include cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, drones, CRISPR/gene editing, big data, data analytics, transnational coordination, technology unemployment, internet of things, neuroscience, privacy, longevity, bitcoin/blockchain, and digital health. |
Keynote Speakers:
Gillian Hadfield, Richard L. and Antoinette Schamoi Kirtland Professor of Law and Professor of Economics USC Gould School of Law
Stuart Russell, Professor at Berkeley, is a computer scientist known for his contributions to artificial intelligence
Craig Shank, Vice President for Corporate Standards Group in Microsoft’s Corporate, External and Legal Affairs (CELA)
Plenary Panels:
Innovation – Responsible and/or Permissionless
Ellen-Marie Forsberg, Senior Researcher/Research Manager at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences
Adam Thierer, Senior Research Fellow with the Technology Policy Program at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Wendell Wallach, Consultant, ethicist, and scholar at Yale University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics
Gene Drives, Trade and International Regulations
Gary Marchant, Regents’ Professor of Law, Professor of Law Faculty Director and Faculty Fellow, Center for Law, Science & Innovation, Arizona State University
Andrew Maynard, Senior Sustainability Scholar, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability Director, Risk Innovation Lab, School for the Future of Innovation in Society Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University
Jennifer Kuzma / Goodnight-North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation Distinguished Professor in Social Sciences in the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) and co-director of the Genetic Engineering and Society (GES) Center at North Carolina State University
Greg Kaebnick, Director, Editorial Department; Editor, Hastings Center Report; Research Scholar, Hastings Center
Marc Saner, Inaugural Director of the Institute for Science, Society and Policy, and Associate Professor, University of Ottawa Department of Geography
Big Data
George Poste, Chief Scientist, Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative (CASI) (http://www.casi.asu.edu/), Regents’ Professor and Del E. Webb Chair in Health Innovation, Arizona State University
Pilar Ossorio, Professor of Law and Bioethics where she is on the faculties of the Law School and the Department of Medical History and Bioethics at the Medical School, University of Wisconsin
Responsible Development of AI
Wendell Wallach, Consultant, Ethicist, and Scholar at Yale University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics
Kay Firth-Butterfield, Barrister and part-time Judge who has worked as a mediator, arbitrator, business owner and professor in the United Kingdom
Kate Crawford, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New York City, a Visiting Professor at MIT’s Center for Civic Media, and a Senior Fellow at NYU’s Information Law Institute
Subbarao Kambhampati, Senior Sustainability Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, Professor, School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University
Existential and Catastrophic Ricks
Julius Weitzdoerfer, the 2014 Charles & Katharine Darwin Research Fellow and Director of Studies in law at Darwin College, and an affiliated lecturer teaching EU Environmental and Sustainable Development Law, CSER, University of Cambridge
Catherine Rhodes, Academic Project Manager, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at CSER, University of Cambridge
Margaret E. Kosal, Associate Director of the Sam Nunn Security Program, Georgia Institute of Technology
Tony Barrett, Co-Founder and Director of Research of the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute
Cybersecurity (half-day) — more coming soon!
Please join us for the 2017 NAI Summit taking place in New York City on Wednesday, May 17, 2017! This year’s event will highlight innovative new technology in digital advertising and consumer privacy and address best practices for the third-party online ecosystem.
EVENT INFORMATION
The NAI Summit has a tradition of attracting top notch industry leaders. The 2016 Summit featured U.S. Federal Trade Commission Director Jessica Rich, Special Assistant Attorney General of California Justin Erlich, and industry all-stars from across the digital advertising ecosystem. The 2017 Summit promises another high-profile keynote presentation as well as a host of new expert-led panel discussions. More information about speakers and topics will be coming soon.
Take advantage of our Early Bird Discount and save $100 on your registration by signing up before March 3rd. A $75 discount is also available for parties of two or more from the same company or organization. If registering separately, contact us for a promo code prior to registering. Limited on-site registration will also be available at the door, space permitting.
HOUSING AND TRAVEL ACCOMMODATIONS
NAI has secured a discounted rate of $355 per night plus taxes at the Maritime hotel, which is located within walking distance of the Summit venue. To take advantage of this offer please call the Maritime Hotel at 212-242-4300 and ask for the NAI room block. Please note that space is limited and this rate will only be offered while availability lasts.
NAI’S FIRST PRIVACY HACKATHON – PRIVACY.HACK
Registration is also open for NAI’s first-ever hackathon – Privacy.hack. Privacy.hack will be held online in the weeks prior to the Summit, with teams convening in New York City the day prior to the Summit, Tuesday, May 16. The hackathon will challenge teams to create innovative privacy solutions for the third party digital advertising ecosystem. Hackathon participants will be able to attend the NAI Summit at a discount. For more information please visit PrivacyHack.com.
If you are interested in sponsorship opportunities for either event, contact Caitlin Andrews at 202-828-7637 or [email protected].
On 18 May 2017, the EDPS is hosting a workshop on Data Driven Life (digital ethics) in Brussels.
With the support of the Ethics Advisory Group, the workshop will explore the positive and negative consequences of data-driven changes on society and on individuals to pursue their own life choices.
Data Driven Life will be about people rather than technology – citizens, users, consumers and communities – with a view to understanding how the use of data is propelling changes in society. With discussions ranging from health and scientific research, banking and insurance, humanitarian intelligence, citizenship to smart cities, the workshop targets a specific audience of academics and practitioners from the scientific and research fields.
This is the second workshop in the series organised by the EDPS advancing the global debate on the ethical dimension of the digital revolution. With the establishment of the Ethics Advisory Group and a well-received first workshop on the relationship between data protection and digital ethics, the debate was launched in 2016.
In October 2018, the EDPS and the Commission for Personal Data Protection of the Republic of Bulgaria will jointly host the 2018 International conference of Data Protection and Privacy.
Commissioners (ICDPPC). With digital ethics as the core theme of the conference, the conference will also see the culmination of the work of the Ethics Advisory Group.
We look forward to welcoming experts from all disciplines to the Data Driven Life workshop. Priority will be given to participants from the research community, both hard and soft sciences.
The event will be webstreamed. To register, please send us an email.
The right to data portability is listed among the most important novelties within the GDPR, both in terms of new control rights granted to data subjects and in terms of its intersection between data protection and other fields of law (for example, competition law, intellectual property, consumer protection, etc.). Despite of its internet social media origins, that perhaps continue to shape its public perception, the right to data portability, particularly if interpreted in an expansive manner, may find application in numerous fields and industries involved in personal data processing. Its exact content is, therefore, of crucial importance. This lunchtime seminar is aimed at highlighting the raison d’ etre of this new right to data portability, its potential scope, as well as its relationship to other individual rights within the GDPR.
The programme is now available.
The workshop will be held from 12:30 – 14:30 at the Institute of European Studies. Lunch will be included.
The event is free to attend but capacity is limited, so registration is required. For more information please contact [email protected].
Members only event that gathers Future of Privacy Forum‘s (FPF) leading academic, advocacy and corporate stakeholders. By invitation only. For FPF membership information, please contact Barbara Kelly at [email protected].
Since 1980, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has been the premier forum for presenting developments in computer security and electronic privacy, and for bringing together researchers and practitioners in the field. The 2017 Symposium will mark the 38th annual meeting of this flagship conference.
The Symposium will be held on May 22-24, 2017, and the Security and Privacy Workshops will be held on May 25, 2017. Both events will be in San Jose, CA at the Fairmont Hotel.
Women in Security and Privacy (WISP) is proud to partner with PerimeterX to offer a 90 minutes hands-on web security workshop that discusses the threats from the latest generation of malicious Bots (nonhuman automated tools) and puts you into the drivers’ seat to learn on how to protect your web application.
Today up to 50% of a company’s web traffic can come from Bots and create a real threat to websites and applications. Bots are ideal workers for repetitive and complex tasks and can easily and efficiently run on different hosts and cloud services—or invisible as malware on infected machines. Bad Bots are participating in different types of attacks impacting all types of applications and businesses—performing the entire scale of attacks from web scraping, account abuse (account creation or account takeover), credit card and coupon guessing scalping, and click fraud. Bots range in complexity and abilities from simple scripts to full browser-based tools that can render complex pages and even solve CAPTCHA challenges.
Please feel free to invite your fellow privacy and security colleagues, but hurry! Space is limited.
Prerequisite Knowledge:
- Comfortable installing packages and running simple scripts and tools.
- Basic medium programming skills:
- We’ll be using Python for examples and exercises in the workshop
- Installing packages different modules
- A basic understanding Web services – specifically HTTP request/response.
Agenda:
5:30 – 6:00 pm – Registration, Networking, Food & Drinks
6:00 – 6:05 pm – Welcome
6:05 – 6:30 am – Presentation
6:30 – 8:00 am – Workshop
We will discuss / examine how Bots work, explain how to operate a few common Bots, and, most importantly, show what you can do to detect and block malicious activity while enabling your users and good Bots to work uninterrupted. We’ll introduce a few common Bots used by attackers, like PhantomJS and Selenium, to create a testing environment and verify that you can efficiently detect such tools. Then we’ll explore a variety of techniques and open source tools and libraries you can use in order to detect different Bots and outline the things to consider when you suspect a request is being originated by a Bot, such as:
- Blocking users not supporting JavaScript and cookies
- Sending hidden challenges that will bother bots but won’t affect real users’ experience
- Honeypots and traps to catch malicious automatic tools
- Detecting and whitelisting the good Bots
Presenters:
- Ido Safruti, Founder and CTO
- Corinna Krueger, VP of Marketing
- Christopher Federico, Lead Solutions Architect
Materials or Downloads Needed in Advance
- Your laptop with tools and libraries/code samples downloaded and installed
- Please follow instructions on the Read Me file here: https://github.com/PerimeterX/bot-tools
What You Will Learn
- Gain an awareness of threats from malicious Bots
- Learn how some of these bots operate
- Explore open source tools and techniques to detect and better manage Bots
Disclaimer: Photography
From time to time WISP uses photographs of its events in its promotional materials (e.g., the wisporg.com website). Unless this permission is revoked in writing to WISP, by virtue of their attendance, event attendees, volunteers, and speakers agree to the use of their likeness in such materials.
Thank you, Autodesk, for hosting us! Thank you, PerimeterX, for sponsoring the event, food and drinks!
Autodesk, Inc. is an American multinational software corporation that makes software for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, and entertainment industries.
PerimeterX™ is a provider of scalable, behavior-based threat protection technology for the web, cloud and mobile. Its security service PerimeterX Bot Defender™ accurately protects commerce, media and enterprise websites from all types of automated or non-human attacks, at any scale. Unlike other security solutions which place a proxy between customer and website, PerimeterX can detect and stop any automated threats with integration that is as simple as adding a JavaScript tag. For more information, please visit https://www.perimeterx.com.
Are data privacy and security your top corporate priorities? Find out why they should be on 23-24 May, 2017 in The Hague, Netherlands.
The GSMA, in cooperation with The Hague Security Delta and The Municipality of The Hague, is hosting the second annual Mobile 360 – Privacy & Security event to address the inevitable challenges that enterprises face with digital transformation. This event will address these challenges and focus on building digital-oriented businesses on trust, security and privacy. Across two days, these topics will be highlighted through keynotes, panel discussions, workshops, and technology demonstrations.
Space is limited; register today at www.mobile360series.com.
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