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Personalized learning is emerging as a transformative approach that empowers teachers & students to reach their full potential. Join us at Cooper’s BBQ for an event in conjunction in SXSW EDU as we explore how students benefit from data & customized instruction – and how organizations like Data Quality Campaign are building privacy, transparency, and trust into these educational technologies. At the helm of this teacher-led shift are educators. With the input of privacy advocates like Bill Fitzgerald and Amelia Vance, we’ll advance a shared vision for the future of data-driven learning that puts students at the center.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
Banatao Auditorium, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-7200 | Directions & Nearby
EVENT DESCRIPTION
The Federal Trade Commission will host its third FinTech Forum on March 9, 2017, focusing on the consumer implications of two rapidly developing technologies: artificial intelligence and blockchain.
Artificial intelligence focuses on the capability for machines to mimic human thinking or actions, including learning and problem solving. The technology may be used, for example, to provide personalized financial services for consumers, including providing money management tools.
Blockchain technology involves a distributed digital ledger for recording transactions that can be shared widely. It first emerged as the foundation for digital currency, and it is now being explored for other consumer-focused uses including payment systems and “smart contracts.”
The half-day event is designed to bring together industry participants, consumer groups, researchers, and government representatives, to examine the ways in which these technologies are being used to offer consumers services, the potential benefits, and consumer protection implications as these technologies continue to develop.
In advance of the forum, the FTC will be developing panels of experts, academics and others for the event. If you wish to participate as a panelist, please email any relevant information to [email protected](link sends e-mail) by January 27, 2017.
The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held at the University of California, Berkeley, beginning at 9 a.m. A full schedule and other details will be announced shortly. No pre-registration is needed. This event will be webcast. A link will be posted to this page on the day of the event.
The FinTech Forum series is part of the FTC’s ongoing work to protect consumers taking advantage of new and emerging financial technology. As technological advances expand the ways consumers can store, share, spend, and borrow money, the FTC is working to keep consumers protected while encouraging innovation for consumers’ benefit.
The Federal Trade Commission works to promote competition, and protect and educate consumers. You can learn more about consumer topics and file a consumer complaint online or by calling 1-877-FTC-HELP (382-4357). Like the FTC on Facebook(link is external), follow us on Twitter(link is external), read our blogs and subscribe to press releases for the latest FTC news and resources.
Every day more computer-based devices are connected to the internet.
Most of these devices have at least one sensing unit, creating
opportunities for more direct integration between the physical world
and computer-based systems. This is the idea behind Internet of Things
(IoT), a development of the Internet in which everyday objects have
network connectivity, allowing them to send and receive data. In the
near future, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are expected to be
integrated into the Internet of Things and consequently to smart
cities. The sensing infrastructures have a major role in the IoT and
great research opportunities. Sensor nodes can join the Internet
dynamically and use it to collaborate and accomplish their tasks. The
future Internet, designed as an IoT is foreseen to be a world-wide
network of interconnected objects uniquely addressable, based on
standard communication protocols.
However, security and privacy in smart cities and IoT remain a niche.
The increase of the data transmission not only increases the demand
for improved network performance but also increases the need for
security mechanisms to protect crucial information. This talk will
explore different aspects of security and privacy issues related to
smart cities: from smartphones and IoT devices to smart health and
smart traffic management.
BIOGRAPHY
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Petros Spachos (M’14) received the Diploma degree in Electronic and
Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Crete, Greece,
in 2008, the M.A.Sc. degree in 2010 and the Ph.D. degree in 2014, both
in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto,
Canada. He was a post-doctoral researcher at University of Toronto
from September 2014 to July 2015. Since August 2015, he has been an
Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering, University of
Guelph, Canada. His research interests include wireless networking and
network protocols with the focus on wireless sensors, smart cities and
Internet of Things. He is involved in protocol design, real world
experimentation and performance analysis. He is a member of the IEEE
and ACM.
For this announcement in PDF, please view online:
http://www.ipsi.utoronto.ca/
| On March 23rd at 9:30am ET New America’s Ranking Digital Rights project will launch the 2017 Corporate Accountability Index: a ranking of 22 of the world’s most powerful telecommunications, internet, and mobile companies on their commitments and disclosed policies affecting users’ freedom of expression and privacy.
The 2017 Index follows the inaugural 2015 Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index which found widespread failure by companies to disclose key information about their policies and practices affecting freedom of expression and privacy. Users were left largely in the dark about how and why their information is collected, used, and shared, as well as many of the circumstances under which content is blocked or removed. Join us on March 23rd to find out what has changed since 2015, what companies can do to improve, and why it matters. Presentation of the Index results will be followed by a discussion about how consumers, activists, investors, and companies themselves can use that data to ensure that, as businesses power and shape our internet, they also do a better job of respecting our rights. Participants: Rebecca MacKinnon Arvind Ganesan Niels ten Oever Company representatives invited, to be confirmed. |
| Launch Event: Ranking Digital Rights 2017 Corporate Accountability Index Thursday, March 23, 2017 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM EST 740 15th Street NW, Suite 900 Washington, DC 20005 |
The symposium aims to highlight the privacy challenges that online consumers face every day while online. It will feature recent research funded by the OPC’s Contributions Program and examine the key factors—cognitive, contextual, and social—that underlie consumers’ decisions to share their personal information online. It will also explore how programs and policies of governments and businesses can better incorporate these human factors into their design. By bringing together academics, regulators, industry and consumer groups, the symposium will be a forum for creative exchange of ideas on how to address consumer privacy challenges in the online world.
This event has been funded by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC); the views expressed at this event are those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect those of the OPC.
Agenda:
8:30 am – Registration and Light Breakfast
9:00 am – Session 1: Keynote (Leslie John, Patricia Kosseim)
10:30 am – Session 2: OPC Funded Research Presentations (Judy Duncan, Jane Tallim, Rajen Akalu, Sonia Chiasson)
12:00 pm – Lunch
1:00 pm – Session 3: Idea Blitz & Panel Discussion (David Elder, Brent Homan, Lisa Austin, Pippa Lawson)
2:40 pm – Session 4: Point-Counterpoint Workshop (Avi Goldfarb, Karen Louise Smith)
4:00 pm – Cocktail Reception
Questions: Liz Kang [email protected]
Half-day local workshops for privacy pros focused on tools and best practices to operationalise compliance.
SmartPrivacy is a practitioner-focused, half day local workshop where privacy professionals can learn from each other about tools and best practices to operationalize their privacy programs.
The workshop is hosted by OneTrust, however is open to any privacy professional regardless of tool or template of choice.
A combination or structured educational sessions, peer-lead discussions, and networking allow organizations to share practical tips on topics such as GDPR compliance, how to perform a data inventory, identifying the key stakeholders/privacy champions within your organization, and how to get buy-in from executives.
Attendees can expect to receive access to free software tools, how-to guides, and best practices documents on the topics covered.
Workshop Agenda
12:00pm Lunch & Attendee Use Cases
12:30pm PIA/DPIA Workshop and Peer Panel
2:00pm Data Mapping Workshop and Peer Panel
3:30pm Topics of Interest and Discussion
4:30pm Networking and Cocktails
The Intensive gathers data protection pros from around the world to dig deep into today’s critical topics and tomorrow’s most important challenges. We’ll get right down to the details of operationalising data protection and practical strategies you can put to use straight away.
We’ve got a lot to cover. We’ll see you in London.
IPSI PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES PRESENTS:
Professor Avi Goldfarb
University of Toronto
“Privacy and Innovation”
Information and communication technology enable firms to collect
detailed and potentially intrusive data about their customers both
easily and cheaply. This means that privacy concerns are no longer
limited to government surveillance and public figures’ private lives.
The empirical literature on privacy regulation shows that privacy
regulation may affect the extent and direction of data-based
innovation. We also show that the impact of privacy regulation can be
extremely heterogeneous. Therefore, we argue that digitization means
that privacy policy is now a part of innovation policy.
Avi Goldfarb is the Ellison Professor of Marketing at the Rotman
School of Management, University of Toronto. Avi’s research focuses on
understanding the opportunities and challenges of the digital economy
and has been funded by Google, Industry Canada, the Sloan Foundation,
the NSF, Bell Canada, AIMIA, SSHRC, and others.. He has also used an
economics lens to explore the drivers of brand value and the limits of
rational models of managerial decision-making. He has published over
60 academic articles in a variety of outlets in marketing, statistics,
law, computing, and economics. He is Senior Editor at Marketing
Science, Chief Data Scientist of the Creative Destruction Lab, and a
Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. For
the past two years, he has co-organized the NBER’s Economics of
Digitization PhD student tutorial. He also co-organized the Marketing
Science-Federal Trade Commission Conference on Marketing and Consumer
Protection. His work with Catherine Tucker on privacy has been
referenced by the White House, the European Commission, and in US
Congressional Testimony. His work with Ajay Agrawal and Christian
Catalini on crowdfunding has been identified by the Ontario Security
Commission as directly influencing the OSC LaunchPad initiative. Avi
received his Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University.
For this announcement in PDF, please view online:
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National security, human rights, and the global digital economy are now dependent on cybersecurity. Through a series of four expert panels, the conference will explore cutting-edge US-Israeli cyberpolicy issues involving national security, crime, human rights, and the digital economy. Topics to be discussed include active cyber military operations, Internet freedom, cybertheft, and technological capabilities. Each panel will explore the responsibilities of various governmental agencies as well as the roles of the private sector and the public in each country.