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Please join us at the upcoming Washington, DC KnowledgeNet Chapter meeting and learn about the Federal Government’s Controlled Unclassified Information program. This event will provide an overview of the program’s inception and implementation, and have a discussion about its accompanying National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) security requirements for nonfederal entities that handle Federal CUI, which includes government contractors, non-profit organizations, and academic/research institutions.
Speakers:
- Kelley Dempsey, Senior Information Security Specialist, NIST IT Laboratory’s Computer Security Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and co-author of NIST Special Publication 800-171
- Mark Riddle, Senior Program Analyst, CUI Oversight and Implementation Lead, National Archives and Records Administration, and co-author of NIST Special Publication 800-171
Moderator:
- Koosh Orandi, Federal Confidential Information Program Lead, US Office of Confidentiality and Privacy, Deloitte Consulting
Thank you to our meeting host, Deloitte LLP, for providing snacks and beverages.
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Registration is REQUIRED. Space is limited.
| Technical standards are used daily by businesses, industries, authorities and individuals. Implementing standards may provide businesses and industries advantages over their competitors. For instance, Android and IOS are standardized platforms. Standards may also benefit individuals, as they provide transparency on the methods, processes and quality management of businesses.
Standards are developed for a range of topics such as information security, product safety, social responsibility, privacy, cloud computing and drones. For those who want to understand limitations and possibilities of emerging technologies in our techno-driven society, the understanding of dynamics of technical standardization and its complex legal aspects is highly relevant. This course will start with an introduction to the world of standards, standards-setting processes and governance. In-depth analyses of various legal issues will follow, such as standard-essential patents, copyright protection of technical standards and data privacy standards. The course will include both frontal teaching and interactive teaching. Students will participate in case studies and working sessions in groups. Part of the program is a field trip, during which students will discuss with experts working in the field of standardization. The main focus of the course is on the European legal and policy approach towards technical standardization, but international standardization will also be discussed, such as ISO (International Organization for Standardisation) and W3C (World Wide Web Consortium). The lectures will be provided by the course leaders and guest lecturers from academia and practice. |
Workshop Focus
Rapid advances in technology have recently brought the analytics of shared data close to practical, even if the amounts of data are large and the security and privacy requirements stringent. In particular for fields with highly sensitive data such as genomics or other health domains, the wide range of privacy-preserving analytics technologies promise to enable new and exciting applications and scientific breakthroughs.
Though for real-world use, there remain still open questions on necessary and sufficient levels of privacy, regulatory and legal compliance, public acceptance and end-user usability of privacy-preserving algorithms to just name a few.
Workshop Goals
- To take a step back to compare and contrast recent advances in medical analytics.
- To bring stakeholders from Medicine, Law, and Technology together to get a better understanding of the full range of requirements, capabilities, and constraints.
- Discuss the current state of technology and to identify remaining technical and non-technical hurdles for public adaption.
- To identify promising directions for further research and real-world validation approaches.
The workshop will not publish proceedings: The goal is to share and summarize progress and insights so far in a conference report that will be published. Furthermore, speakers will be free to publish their talks and any accompanying material online.
As wireless and mobile networking becomes ubiquitous, security and privacy become increasingly critical. The focus of the ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (ACM WiSec) is on the security and privacy aspects of wireless communications, mobile networks, and their applications. In addition to the traditional ACM WiSec topics of physical, link, and network layer security, we also welcome papers focusing on the security and privacy of mobile software platforms and the increasingly diverse range of mobile or wireless applications. The conference welcomes both theoretical as well as systems contributions.
ACM WiSec 2016 will be held from July 18 to July 20, 2016. It will be co-located with PETS 2016 as well as a number of security-related workshops as a part of the Security Week 2016in Darmstadt, Germany.
The goal of this workshop is to identify and discuss the main open research challenges at the intersection of privacy technologies and cryptography that should be prioritised in the coming 5-10 years. The inputs and discussions to the workshop will be the basis of a white paper that contributes to defining the priorities of a strategic research agenda in the field of cryptography and privacy.
| For years, Nymity has provided the Nymity Privacy Management Accountability Framework™ (Framework) free of charge to the privacy community and it is now used by over 1000 organisations around the world to enhance privacy management and compliance. Nymity has recently launched the Nymity Accountability Framework Advisory Forum where advisory members share their experience and knowledge and help guide enhancements, usability and adaptability of the Framework for use by the privacy community. Join this webinar to hear some of the advisories share their experiences working with the free Framework for GDPR compliance and learn how you can get involved.
Registration Link: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/6265646558447704065 |
The best legal and policy minds in Washington will battle for the right to boast that they are the masters of the most important Internet policy and law issues of our time.
The competition will be fierce. Can you handle it?
For the third year running, the Internet Law & Policy Foundry is bringing together attorneys and summer associates from local firms, government lawyers, regulators, and policymakers, and policy analysts and in-house counsel from major tech companies to go head to head in a battle of minds. The Foundry is rapidly growing movement of Internet law and policy professionals whose goal is to be a platform for constructive debate, network-building, and professional development for emerging and early-career attorneys and policy analysts who are passionate abut development of Internet law and policy (but this event is open to professionals of all levels of experience).
Questions will range from serious to absurd, all focusing on the wonderful world of Internet governance, privacy, free speech, intellectual property law, and cutting edge technology. The evening will be emceed by renowned cyberlaw quiz master Kurt Opsahl, Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who presides over EFF’s famed Cyberlaw Pub Trivia.
Form an expert team with your colleagues, or an agile, multidisciplinary group with friends (~6 people per team, 8 max). Don’t have a team? No problem — we’ll help bring together cool and competitive groups, and you’ll get to met some new people. There will be multiple rounds of questions, plus a few tiebreakers if necessary.
And if you win? Well, you’ll have bragging rights around the Beltway for the rest of the year.
Limited seats are available, so get your team organized and register now!
Individual/team are responsible for your own drinks and food tabs.
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Internet Law & Policy Trivia Night is generously sponsored by:
Interested in becoming a sponsor? Get a reserved table for your team and promotional opportunities throughout the event. Email [email protected] for more information.
The annual Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) brings together privacy experts from around the world to discuss recent advances and new perspectives on research in privacy technologies. PETS addresses the design and realization of privacy services for the Internet and other digital systems and communication networks.
PETS presents the papers published in the current volume of the journal Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs).
This year, the symposium will be held during Security & Privacy Week SPW 2016, which offers five days of various exciting events, covering many timely topics surrounding the field of security & privacy.
The U.S.-EU Privacy Shield framework, the agreement between the U.S. government and the European Commission that enables continued flows of commercial data from Europe to the United States, is undergoing its first annual review by the Commission and other European institutions. In the U.S., the Trump administration has affirmed support for the framework and its essential pillars, while simultaneously pursuing foreign policies and privacy policies that cause alarm to some Europeans. What will be the outcome of the EU Commission’s review, scheduled to be completed by September, and how will the actions of the Trump administration affect the future of data transfers?
On July 19, Governance Studies at Brookings will host a leading member of the European Parliament on privacy and data protections issues, Jan Philipp Albrecht, to discuss views of the Privacy Shield and consumer data privacy more broadly. How well has the Privacy Shield functioned since it was adopted in July 2016? How might other geopolitical events impact the future of trans-Atlantic data transfers? And what emerging threats pose the greatest risk to data protection in the EU and U.S.?
After the session, speakers will take audience questions. You can follow the conversation on Twitter using #DataProtection.
This workshop addresses various topics and implications related to the transformation of society through digitalization. Over the span of a short time, the world gained vast access to mobile devices, applications, different social networks and cloud services that require more and more connectivity. Computing systems and digitalization are becoming more pervasive and essential to every facet of our lives.
Despite the increasing comfort and efficiency provided through digitalization, this development has a dark side. Our computer systems increasingly store and process sensitive data. They have become attractive targets of various attacks in the promise land of Internet of Everything: They create new levels of monitoring for collecting user profiles, mass surveillance but also sousveillance through users themselves. With the rising number of users, social networks are becoming anti-social. They are used by terrorists and extremists as platforms for hate messages and incitement, by state actors for propaganda and disinformation, and by criminals for fraud. Our society is still in the middle of understanding the magnitude of digitalization and its effects, while the opportunities of new technologies and negative effects are still expanding at the same time.
In this workshop researchers, experts and practitioners will focus on the impact patterns of the above mentioned consequences through current examples as well as a critical assessment and evaluation of debated solutions.