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![Second Annual Digital Information Policy Scholars Conference @ Arlington](https://privacycalendar.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/lec-logo.png)
The Program on Economics & Privacy (PEP) at Antonin Scalia Law School, will host a scholars conference on the economics of digital information policy on April 28, 2017. The conference will be open to the public. The mission of PEP is to promote the sound application of economic analysis to issues surrounding the digital information economy through original research, policy outreach, and education. The annual Digital Information Policy Scholars Conference is intended to further this goal by providing a forum to present academic research surrounding this important area of the US economy.
![Second Annual Digital Information Policy Scholars Conference @ Arlington | Arlington | Virginia | United States](https://privacycalendar.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/gmu2-300x290.png)
The Program on Economics & Privacy (PEP) at George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School will host a Scholars Conference on the economics of digital information policy on Friday, April 28, 2017. The mission of PEP is to promote the sound application of economic analysis to issues surrounding the digital information economy through original research, policy outreach, and education.
The Scholars Conference will showcase fourteen original law & economics research papers on such topics as:
- James Cooper (Director, PEP) on Measuring Autonomy Losses from the 2012 Google Privacy Policy Changes
- Martina Ferracane (European Centre for Intl Political Economy) on Stricter Regimes of Data Flows
- Mark Flood (US Treasury Office of Financial Research) on Cryptography and the Economics of Supervisory Information
- Jon Klick (U of Pennsylvania Law) on State Data Breaches and Income Tax e-Filing
- Meiping Sun (Columbia) on EMV Technology and Credit Card Fraud
- Jose Tudon (U of Chicago) on an Empirical Investigation on Net Neutrality
The Conference will also feature a luncheon keynote from Ginger Jin, Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Economics.
A full list of speakers is available on the PEP website here.
![Algorithms and Explanations @ New York | New York | New York | United States](https://privacycalendar.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/nyu-law-300x69.png)
Abstract:
Explanation has long been deemed a crucial aspect of accountability. By requiring that powerful actors explain the bases of their decisions — the logic goes — we reduce the risks of error, abuse, and arbitrariness, thus producing more socially desirable decisions. Decisionmaking processes employing machine learning algorithms and similar data-driven approaches complicate this equation. Such approaches promise to refine and improve the accuracy and efficiency of decisionmaking processes, but the logic and rationale behind each decision remains opaque to human understanding. The conference will grapple with the question of when and to what extent decisionmakers should be legally or ethically obligated to provide humanly meaningful explanations of individual decisions to those who are affected or to society at large.
List of Speakers:
Julius Adebayo, FastForward Labs
Guruduth Banavar, IBM Watson Lab
Solon Barocas, Microsoft Research
Enrico Bertini, NYU (Engineering)
Kiel Brennan-Marquez, NYU (Law)
Julie Brill, Hogan Lovells
Jim Burch, Police Foundation
Jenna Burrell, UC Berkeley (Information)
Federico Cabitza, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (Italy)
Rich Caruana, Cornell (CS)
Alexandra Chouldechova, Carnegie Mellon (CS)
Anupam Datta, Carnegie Mellon (CS)
Deven Desai, Georgia Tech (Law)
Nick Diakopoulos, University of Maryland (Journalism)
Brad Greenberg, Yale ISP (Law)
Krishna Gummadi, MPI-SWS (Germany)
Jeremy Heffner, Hunchlab
Alison Howard, Microsoft
Zachary Lipton, UCSD (Biomedical Informatics)
Gilad Lotan, Buzzfeed
Frank Pasquale, University of Maryland (Law)
Foster Provost, NYU (Stern)
Dan Raviv, Lendbuzz
Aaron Rieke, Upturn
Paul Rifelj, Wisconsin Public Defenders
Andrea Roth, UC Berkeley (Law)
Andrew Selbst, Information Society Project
Kevin Stack, Vanderbilt (Law)
Katherine Strandburg, NYU (Law)
Jer Thorpe, Office for Creative Research
Sandra Wachter – Alan Turing Institute
Duncan Watts, Microsoft Research
![connect:ID 2017 @ Washington, DC | Washington | District of Columbia | United States](https://privacycalendar.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/connect-id-300x88.png)
connect:ID – an innovative international conference and a free global exhibition that together focus on all aspects of identity technologies and the opportunities for their management in both the physical and digital worlds.
connect:ID Conference – May 1-3, 2017
Hear from some of the key players in the identity technology marketplace from thought leaders to end users with three days of cutting-edge revelations, future insights, case histories and panel discussions. Book before March 3, 2017 to take advantage of our early bird rates.
connect:ID Exhibition – May 2-3, 2017
Explore the latest developments and releases in identity technolgy solutions with 75+ exhibitors all under one roof. Entrance to the exhibition is free
![Internet Privacy: Technology and Policy Developments @ Washington, DC | Washington | District of Columbia | United States](https://privacycalendar.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/ctic-1-300x157.jpg)
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![VRM Day 2017a @ Mountain View | Mountain View | California | United States](https://privacycalendar.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/vrm-day-300x150.png)
By VRM Day and IIW (which follows over the next three days at the same location), we should have terms individuals can assert as first parties in dealings with others—especially companies—in the world. These terms, at the very least, can provide personal privacy protections, especially regarding collection and use of personal data.
This is new, and huge. It may also be the most leveraged thing ever to come out of ProjectVRM.
Background. Ever since industry won the Industrial Revolution, individuals have been subordinate second parties when dealing with large companies, especially in mass markets. When we click “accept” to those companies’ terms, we are always second parties. But now we will have first person terms of our own that companies can accept as second parties. These terms will live at Customer Commons, much as personal copyright terms now live at Creative Commons. (In fact Customer Commons is modeled after Creative Commons, which also came out of the Berkman (now Berkman Klein) Center.
Until now the timing hasn’t been right, because there were always too many reasons for companies to say no. But now the timing is right, thanks to new privacy protecting regulations, especially the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) in the EU. Punishments to companies not complying with the GDPR are very nasty. Accepting friendly but privacy-protecting terms individuals assert can make companies GDPR compliant, and do it simply, easily and automatically. This will be especially good news to the compliance offices at large international companies. It will also be good for business, because it will involve better signaling of good will and commercial intentions by customers, while saving companies the expense of purely speculative (and soon illegal) spying-based adtech.
These terms can be accepted (or not) automatically by CRM systems. This was demonstrated using the JLINC protocol and a Salesforce CRM system at the last VRM Day. At this VRM Day we want to discuss both developed and possible terms, the technologies required to advance, accept, record and retrieve them, and ways to grow Customer Commons as well.
As always, VRM Day will also be prep for the next three days at IIW, where we can dig down a lot farther and start fostering or developing supportive code. VRM Day is free. IIW is cheap as conferences go. (You won’t find a conference as leveraged, period. Or one as cheap for three solid and productive days of real work—and good food.) Register for VRM Day here, and for IIW here.
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- Privacy Program Management (2-3 May 2017)
- European Data Protection (4-5 May 2017)
Venue: Madera Room, ICAB Business and Technology Incubator, Site Arsenaal, Witte Patersstraat 4, 1040 Brussels
![The 24th Internet Identity Workshop @ Mountain View](https://privacycalendar.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/iiw-278x300.jpg)
Internet Identity Workshop
The Internet Identity Workshop has been finding, probing and solving identity issues twice every year since 2005. We meet in the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Every IIW moves topics, code and projects downfield. Name an identity topic and it’s likely that more substantial discussion and work has been done at IIW than any other conference!
![The Connected Product Intensive: A Framework for Regulatory Compliance and Risk Management Seminar @ San Francisco | San Francisco | California | United States](https://privacycalendar.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Connected-Products-Banner-300x99.jpg)
Keller and Heckman is pleased to announce a new seminar, The Connected Product Intensive: A Framework for Regulatory Compliance and Risk Management, taking place May 2-3, 2017 in San Francisco, CA. This highly anticipated seminar presented by Keller and Heckman’s Connected Products Team will focus on the regulatory and litigation risks affecting connected products, and offer practical tips on compliance, risk avoidance, and risk management. Learn how to keep your customers safe and secure and to protect your company’s reputation and investments.
Highlights from the agenda include:
- Guidance on developing compliance frameworks
- Drafting privacy policies
- Responding to a security breach and best practices for encryption
- Environmental considerations including California’s Proposition 65 and state green chemistry laws
- FCC issues from equipment certifications through spectrum availability
- Handling product recalls, crisis management, and product liability litigation
- Energy efficiency considerations
- Advertising and marketing emphasizing claims, price, safety, and social media
- Rules surrounding In-app purchases
- End-user License Agreements
Whether you are making a connected appliance, fitness device, children’s product, or other consumer product, one key to success is the ability to identify regulatory risks, and to develop compliance frameworks designed to keep your customers safe and secure and your company’s reputation and investments intact. Keller and Heckman’s Connected Product Team will address these issues offering practical tips and guidance for navigating the evolving legal landscape of the Internet of Things.
Yes, I would like to attend The Connected Product Intensive Seminar!
Click here to view the tentative seminar agenda.
Seminar Details:
Dates:
May 2-3, 2017
Cost:
$795 if registered by March 31; after March 31 the registration fee will be $995
Location:
Hyatt Regency San Francisco
5 Embarcadero Center
San Francisco, CA 94111
Room Block Reservations
Keller and Heckman has reserved a room block at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco at the rate of $329 a night plus tax. Please click here to make your room reservations. Reservations must be made by April 17, 2017.
Continuing Legal Education:
If state CLE credits are sought, Keller and Heckman will apply and cover the fees associated with the applications.
For additional information, please contact:
Justine Bedard
Marketing and Events Coordinator
Keller and Heckman LLP
[email protected]
Date: 5/2/2017 – 5/3/2017
![EuroPriSe Expert Admission Workshop (Amsterdam) @ Amsterdam | Amsterdam | Noord-Holland | Netherlands](https://privacycalendar.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/EuroPriSe_Logo_RGB_Web-300x212.jpg)
The 2-day workshop will introduce you to the EuroPriSe certification scheme: You will learn about EuroPriSe criteria and procedures and train how to specify a target of evaluation (ToE) and to write a EuroPriSe evaluation report. In addition, you will start to work on the training evaluation which is one important precondition for being admitted as EuroPriSe Expert.
The workshop is a combination of classroom and group work and involves practical examples. You will deal with privacy use cases to apply what you have learned and to benefit from the professional exchange with other workshop participants.
During the workshop, the experienced speakers will introduce you to EuroPriSe’s GDPR ready certification criteria for IT products and IT based services and provide you with an overview of EuroPriSe’s strategy regarding the GDPR.
Enjoy meeting other privacy professionals from around the globe and expand your professional network!
Special offers:
– An early bird fee is available until February 17, 2017: € 1.495,80 + 19% VAT (€ 1.780). Foreign participants may be VAT reverse charged, if they can provide a valid VAT ID when registering
-Enjoy an additional day of Training (May 5th, 2017!
Participants of the two-day EuroPriSe Expert Admission Workshop may participate free of charge in the one-day Expert Enhancement Workshop which takes place the very next day. Meet experienced EuroPriSe Experts and benefit from additional insight in EuroPriSe and EU data protection law!