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On November 17th and 18th the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) will hold its 9th Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

This year’s event, entitled “Risks. Harms. Rewards”, will focus on the many benefits, opportunities, and challenges our online lives can bring us. Some of the panel topics that will be explored at this year’s event include cyber ethics and cyber-bullying, child online sexual exploitation, privacy, international trends, and digital parenting.

Join the IAPP in Washington DC November 17-18 for its Practical Privacy Series 2015.  On Tuesday, November 17, topics will include data breaches and financial services.  On Wednesday, November 18, topics will include government data breaches and the FTC and consumer privacy.

For more information and to register, please click here.

The Conference on Responsible Use of Open Data: Government and the Private Sector, to be held at New York University on November 19-20, 2015 is co-organized by the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology (BCLT) and NYU’s Information Law Institute and Department of Media, Culture and Communication. The event continues and expands the issues addressed by the April 2015 BCLT event Open Data: Addressing Privacy, Security, and Civil Rights Challenges Symposium. We are delighted that Dr. Amen Ra Mashariki, the City of New York Chief Analytics Officer and in charge of the Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics has agreed to open the conference in the afternoon of November 19^th.

For more information and to register, please click here.

With the IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2015 perfectly timed to arrive with the expected finalisation of the proposed regulation, we’re planning an unprecedented programme to shed light on the current reality and future developments throughout Europe and around the world.

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Timed to coincide with the conclusion of the negotiations of the EU GDPR the conference will bring together EU regulatory experts with Silicon Valley business leaders and privacy professionals in a convenient downtown San Francisco for a combination of keynotes, expert panels and practical workshops.

Register today to hear first hand what’s in the Regulation (and what’s out) and gain practical advice on next steps to ensure compliance and how to brief the Board.

The Federal Trade Commission will hold a conference on January 14, 2016 to bring together a diverse group of stakeholders, including whitehat researchers, academics, industry representatives, consumer advocates, academics, and a range of government regulators, to discuss the latest research and trends related to consumer privacy and data security. PrivacyCon will include brief privacy and security research presentations, along with expert panel discussions on the latest privacy and security challenges facing consumers. Whitehat researchers and academics will discuss the latest security vulnerabilities, explain how they can be exploited to harm consumers, and highlight research affecting consumer privacy and data security. During panel discussions, participants will discuss the research presentations and the latest policy initiatives to address consumer privacy and security, develop suggestions for further collaboration between researchers and policymakers, and highlight steps that companies and consumers can and should take to protect themselves and their data.

For more information about the event and presentation submissions, please click here.