The debate over the creation of policies regulating the rapidly evolving information
and communication technologies is the focus of a conference on “Computers,
Freedom and Privacy,” to be held Tuesday-Friday, May 20-23
at the Omni Hotel in New Haven, 155 Temple St.
T H I S
The event, subtitled “Technology Policy ’08,” is sponsored
by the Association for Computing Machinery, AOL and Google, in conjunction with
the Yale Law School Information Society Project (ISP) and the Yale Law and Media Program.
The event will bring together a group of technologists, policymakers, business
leaders and advocates who will look at how to make informed decisions about policies
addressing such issues as privacy, intellectual property, cybersecurity, telecommunications
and freedom of speech.
“The direction of our technology policy is critically important as it impacts
the choices we make about our national defense, our civil liberties during wartime,
the future of American education, our national healthcare systems, and many other
areas of policy being discussed on the campaign trail,” says the conference’s
chair, Eddan Katz, senior fellow at the Yale ISP and lecturer and associate research
scholar at Yale Law School. “This conference is an opportunity to help
shape public debate on those issues being made into laws and regulations, and
on the technological infrastructures being developed.”
The conference will consist of workshops and tutorials examining a wide range
of topics related to the future of computing, privacy and freedom in the online
world — from data mining, wiretapping, e-voting and electronic medical
records, to file sharing, open access, social networks and online anonymity.
For more information on fees, accommodations and program information, and to
register online, visit the conference website at www.cfp2008.org.
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