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The SPDE develops public policy analysis and high level recommendations to help governments and other stakeholders ensure that digital security and privacy protection foster the development of the digital economy.

It gathers policy experts from OECD member and partner governments as well as business, civil society and the Internet technical community to share experience on better approaches to security and privacy in an open and globally interconnected environment. The SPDE reports to the Committee on Digital Economy Policy (CDEP) which itself reports to the OECD Council.

The SPDE:

• Addresses information security and privacy as complementary issues that are essential for the sustainability of the Internet economy as a platform for economic and social prosperity.
• Is a platform where policy makers monitor trends, share experience, and analyse the impact of technology on information security and privacy policy making.
• Develops and monitors the implementation of several non-binding legal instruments (soft law) adopted by the OECD Council by consensus.
• Maintains an active network of experts from government, business, civil society and the Internet technical community.

The work of the SPDE:

• Serves as a foundation for developing national co-ordinated policies.
• Is balanced and pragmatic, respects cultural, legal and social differences.
• Benefits the broader international community through OECD’s co-operation with non-members and other international and regional organisations (such as Council of Europe and APEC).
• Supports OECD’s core values

The SPDE is supported by the OECD Secretariat within the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry. It meets twice a year in Paris and organises workshops and conferences.

SPDE delegates come from various government bodies with an interest in the economic and social aspects of information security and privacy. Non-governmental stakeholders participate actively in the dialogue through the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD (BIAC), the Civil Society Information Society Advisory Council (CSISAC) and the Internet Technical Advisory Committee (ITAC). The WPISP has also established relationships with other international and regional organisations such as Council of Europe, Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC TEL and APEC ECSG), ENISA, the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, and the Global Privacy Enforcement Network (GPEN).

Further information and documents are available at www.oecd.org/sti/security-privacy.

The GDPR countdown has started. In May 2018 the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will apply. So from EDPD in May 2017, businesses, organizations and authorities will only have a one-year period left to adopt the GDPR. What about global data transfers? Will Privacy Shield enable global data flows and create legal certainty? What will be the future role of the data protection officers (DPOs) and data protection authorities (DPAs)? The EDPD Conference will provide you with all the important news and updates for your international data protection business at a high level.

Will provide business leaders, privacy and security experts, tech innovators, and senior policy makers the forum to discuss the future of identity. By utilizing the world’s best event technology, K(NO)W connects attendees digitally and physically unlike ever before.

This exclusive gathering of the nation’s most prominent women in their field serves two purposes;

1. To raise Congressional awareness of the collective expertise and subject matter resources of women in cybersecurity and related fields in order to utilize womens’ knowledge for expert testimony and advice locally and nationally.

2. To provide opportunity for executive women’s voices to be heard by Leaders of Congress and their staff relative to issues pertinent to the cybersecurity of private industry and government

Please note this event is by invitation only.

The Privacy Symposium is known for delivering world-class education on the most critical issues facing Canadian privacy pros each year. With timely training, hands-on workshops and two days of conference programming, the Symposium is the must-attend event in data privacy.

Privacy.hack: NAI’s first ever hackathon for digital advertising privacy!

NAI’s first ever hackathon for online advertising privacy! Teams will propose innovative privacy solutions to improve notice and choice options for consumers through developments in education, user experience, improved privacy features, and enhanced accessibility.

WHO:

All NAI members are eligible to participate as hackers. Judges may include industry representatives, NAI staff, and celebrity technologists.

WHEN:

WHY:

The nature of today’s digital advertising ecosystem has ushered in new possibilities for advertisers and media companies, but it also raises privacy concerns for consumers. Privacy.hack invites participants to propose creative privacy ideas or solutions from a variety of fields: technology, policy, and legal.

GUIDELINES:

PRIZES:

Stockholm Internet Forum (SIF) is an international forum for in-depth dialogue and discussions on how a free, open and secure internet promotes human rights and development worldwide. Stockholm Internet Forum 2017 will take place at Münchenbryggeriet in Stockholm on May 17-18 2017.

Technology is transforming society on many fronts. In recent years, we have seen the rise of social media and the sharing economy, a sustained move from atoms to bits, and the rapid development of cloud computing, big data, smart devices, and robotics. Along with these developments we see a continuous stream of new legal and regulatory issues. For every problem solved, two new problems seem to surface.

When looking at current phenomena, it is particularly notable that that everything seems to be connected. Individuals are being connected through networks and data flows from and through connected devices; the field of Data Science seems to revolve around connecting the dots between various bits of data and between data and persons. Disciplines and regulatory domains are also increasingly connected: contemporary issues require involvement from legal scholars, regulation and governance scholars, and social scientists, who must work together, but who also occasionally clash. Similarly, different domains of law become intertwined, such as public law and private law or data protection and intellectual property, but do not always coexist harmoniously. Regulation is no longer the prerogative of sovereign states; rather, complex interconnected multi-level governance arrangements are at play.

Conference theme

These developments and transformations give good reason to adopt ‘Regulating a connected world’ as the theme for the 5th Bi-annual TILTing Perspectives conference on the intersection of law, technology, and society. While recent TILTing conferences had a specific focus, ‘robotics and neurotechnologies’ in 2011, ‘health and surveillance’ in 2015, the 2017 conference will open the floor to an entire spectrum of topics and disciplines under the broad umbrella of law, technology and society.

The conference

TILTing 2017 brings together researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and civil society at the intersection of law and regulation, technology, and society to share insights, exchange ideas and formulate, discuss and suggest answers to contemporary challenges related to technological innovation. The conference will include plenary sessions, parallel sessions, and panel discussions with invited speakers, as well as presentations from respondents to this call for papers.

The conference features five large tracks: Privacy, Health, Intellectual property, Data Science, and PLSC Europe. But within the context of these general tracks, we are adopting an open and bottom-up organizational strategy: it is up to you (the participants) to determine what happens at the conference and how. With that in mind, we invite scholars, practitioners, policy makers, and others, to propose papers, workshops, panels, mini-symposia and the like, both within and in addition to the large tracks. If you have an idea and would like to check whether it fits the open theme of the conference, feel free to contact [email protected]

GikII Workshop

TILTing 2017 will contain a ‘GikII’ inspired event. On Friday afternoon, or even Friday all day submissions permitting, we will host a GikII style Workshop. GikII brings together the worlds of law, technology and popular culture.

The Fifth Annual Conference on Governance of Emerging Technologies:

Law, Policy and Ethics held at the new

Beus Center for Law & Society in Phoenix, AZ

May 17-19, 2017!

Call for Abstracts – Now Closed

The conference will consist of plenary and session presentations and discussions on regulatory, governance, legal, policy, social and ethical aspects of emerging technologies, including (but not limited to) nanotechnology, synthetic biology, gene editing, biotechnology, genomics, personalized medicine, human enhancement technologies, telecommunications, information technologies, surveillance technologies, geoengineering, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and robotics. The conference is premised on the belief that there is much to be learned and shared from and across the governance experience and proposals for these various emerging technologies.Some particular themes that will be emphasized at this year’s conference include cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, drones, CRISPR/gene editing, big data, data analytics, transnational coordination, technology unemployment, internet of things, neuroscience, privacy, longevity, bitcoin/blockchain, and digital health.

Keynote Speakers:

Gillian Hadfield, Richard L. and Antoinette Schamoi Kirtland Professor of Law and Professor of Economics USC Gould School of Law

Stuart Russell, Professor at Berkeley, is a computer scientist known for his contributions to artificial intelligence

Craig Shank, Vice President for Corporate Standards Group in Microsoft’s Corporate, External and Legal Affairs (CELA)

Plenary Panels:

Innovation – Responsible and/or Permissionless

Ellen-Marie Forsberg, Senior Researcher/Research Manager at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences

Adam Thierer, Senior Research Fellow with the Technology Policy Program at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University

Wendell Wallach, Consultant, ethicist, and scholar at Yale University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics

Gene Drives, Trade and International Regulations

Gary Marchant, Regents’ Professor of Law, Professor of Law Faculty Director and Faculty Fellow, Center for Law, Science & Innovation, Arizona State University

Andrew Maynard, Senior Sustainability Scholar, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability Director, Risk Innovation Lab, School for the Future of Innovation in Society Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University

Jennifer Kuzma / Goodnight-North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation Distinguished Professor in Social Sciences in the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) and co-director of the Genetic Engineering and Society (GES) Center at North Carolina State University

Greg Kaebnick, Director, Editorial Department; Editor, Hastings Center Report; Research Scholar, Hastings Center

Marc Saner, Inaugural Director of the Institute for Science, Society and Policy, and Associate Professor, University of Ottawa Department of Geography

Big Data

George Poste, Chief Scientist, Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative (CASI) (http://www.casi.asu.edu/), Regents’ Professor and Del E. Webb Chair in Health Innovation, Arizona State University

Pilar Ossorio, Professor of Law and Bioethics where she is on the faculties of the Law School and the Department of Medical History and Bioethics at the Medical School, University of Wisconsin

Responsible Development of AI

Wendell Wallach, Consultant, Ethicist, and Scholar at Yale University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics

Kay Firth-Butterfield, Barrister and part-time Judge who has worked as a mediator, arbitrator, business owner and professor in the United Kingdom

Kate Crawford, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New York City, a Visiting Professor at MIT’s Center for Civic Media, and a Senior Fellow at NYU’s Information Law Institute

Subbarao Kambhampati, Senior Sustainability Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, Professor, School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University

  Existential and Catastrophic Ricks

Julius Weitzdoerfer, the 2014 Charles & Katharine Darwin Research Fellow and Director of Studies in law at Darwin College, and an affiliated lecturer teaching EU Environmental and Sustainable Development Law, CSER, University of Cambridge

Catherine Rhodes, Academic Project Manager, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at CSER, University of Cambridge

Margaret E. Kosal,  Associate Director of the Sam Nunn Security Program, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tony Barrett, Co-Founder and Director of Research of the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute

Cybersecurity (half-day) — more coming soon!