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The Foundation will host a discussion on Big Data, Governance, and Regulation in Washington, DC.

A recent WSJ article entitled Big Data Looms as Next Battle in Europe underscores the friction and uncertainty caused by the changing nature of how digital assets for complex analytics are processed, regulated, and governed. Key aspects of the discussion are the issues of legitimacy and fairness. For big data initiatives to be a success, their processes need to be seen as fair by consumers, regulators, policymakers, and advocates. Yet, how is fairness around big data work established? These issues will be examined as well as:

• How to bridge American concepts of innovation with data protection regimes in other countries.
• How understand the legal basis for big data in European-inspired data protection programs.
• Building confidence around big data processes so that they are deemed fair by external constituents.

ReThink Education and Future of Privacy Forum invite start-ups, small, and medium-sized ed tech companies to an intensive and comprehensive program designed to ensure vendors handling student data understand privacy laws and best practices.

Please join the IAPP at the upcoming KnowledgeNet and learn how the U.S. Department of Homeland Security plays a major role in leading information sharing efforts, including private sector cybersecurity information sharing.

KnowledgeNets are a benefit exclusively for IAPP members. They are free networking meetings that provide the privacy community an opportunity to network, make acquaintances and share ideas.  Guests and nonmembers are welcome to attend one KnowledgeNet meeting as space allows.

Please join Patrick Ball, executive director of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, for a conversation about data, rights, and justice. Data can seem to offer insights into patterns: Is mass violence getting better, or worse, over time? Is violence directed more against men or women? However, in human rights data collection, we (usually) don’t know what we don’t know—and worse, what we don’t know may be systematically different from what we think we do know.

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Technology in education has the potential to revolutionize learning. Yet the adoption of new technology requires consumer trust. This is especially true when considering the privacy of students’ data collected by education technologies. Recently, we have witnessed increased activity around student privacy legislation. Over 170 state student privacy bills have been introduced in 2015, the White House announced its student privacy legislative proposal in January, and Congress is currently considering multiple student privacy bills.

Join the Center for Democracy & Technology, members of Congress, advocates, and industry leaders for a briefing on the paths forward for national student privacy law and policy.

You are invited to join SIIA for lunch and a discussion about the Judicial Redress Act of 2015 (H.R. 1428).  The Act would expand the U.S. Privacy Act to enable foreigners to pursue civil remedies if the person’s country or organization has appropriate privacy protection for sharing information with the United States to prevent, investigate, detect, or prosecute criminal offenses.

Bill sponsors Reps. Sensenbrener and Conyers will provide introductory remarks, followed by a panel discussion featuring the technology industry and civil society discussing the need for expanded judicial redress.