University Events
Arizona
The Center for Law, Science, and Innovation at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, Tempe presented “The Continuing Evolution of Health Information Privacy,” featuring Kristin Rosati of Coppersmith Schermer & Brockelman PLC on Data Privacy Day, January 28, 2010, in Room 114 at the Law School from 12:10 p.m. til 1:00 p.m. For further information, contact Andrew (Sandy) Askland, (480) 965-2465 or sandy.askland@asu.edu.
Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business hosted the “Celebrate Data Privacy Day” event on January 28, 2010, from 8 am through 12:30 at the University Club, ASU’s Tempe Campus, offering three panel discussions evaluating privacy practices in important, emerging areas: Social Media (and other Web 2.0 capabilities); Software as a Service; and Healthcare. Each panel featured leaders from the relevant segment of the industry with functional and privacy expertise discussing business objectives in each situation – and the Privacy by Design opportunities for developing “win – win” solutions.
California
On Friday, January 29, 2010, the California Law Review and UC Berkeley School of Law, University of California, hosted “Prosser’s Privacy at 50,” a conference celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Dean William Prosser’s landmark article, Privacy, 48 Calif. L. Rev. (1960). The conference included an internationally-diverse group of panelists and leading scholars in the area of privacy law.
In honor of “Prosser’s Privacy at 50,” and Data Privacy Day, the Future of Privacy Forum and California Law Review hosted a cocktail party on Thursday evening, January 28 at the Hotel Durant, Berkeley, California.
The Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School hosted a panel on Privacy & Monetization at 5:00 PM on January 26, 2010, Room 280B, open to students and the larger community. Panelists from companies with different incentives and currently at different stages of monetization (LinkedIn, Mozilla), as well as privacy experts (Lauren Gelman and moderator Ryan Calo), discussed how monetary considerations operate to enhance or limit consumer privacy. For more information, please contact Amanda Smith (asmith@law.stanford.edu).
On January 20, 2010 the Center for Science, Technology and Society of Santa Clara University presented “Privacy Protections for Patient-Empowered Care,” a panel discussion about the privacy implications and policy considerations raised by personal health records, featuring Dr. Paul Tang, MD, a member of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, Subcommittee on Privacy, Confidentiality & Security (NCVHS), and Deven McGraw, Director of the Health Privacy Project at the Center for Democracy and Technology. The event was cosponsored by Santa Clara’s Hi Tech Law Institute and the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
Indiana
Indiana University presented “Data Privacy Day at IU: Privacy shouldn’t be a game of chance” on January 28, 2010. Following a plenary presentation by Joan Antokol of Baker & Daniels, panelists discussed Safeguarding Data Privacy at Indiana University; The Bits and Bytes of Data Protection; and How Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and Privacy can All Coexist. This event featured a live broadcast via Adobe Connect.
The Indiana University privacy conference was followed by an IAPP After Hours Event at Farm Bloomington (Dutch treat) at 5:30 pm hosted by Merri Beth Lavagnino and Eric Cosens of the Office of the VP for Information Technology and Jeff Lambright of the Indiana University Foundation. The After Hours event featured an informal dinner, networking opportunities and a conversation about the current privacy landscape and how it relates to higher education. Click here to view other privacy resources offered by Indiana University.
Michigan
On January 26, 2010, the IPOL Events Series at the University of Michigan’s School of Information hosted a health privacy event featuring Deven McGraw, Director of the Health Privacy Project at CDT. Ms. McGraw presented on the privacy implications of the health IT provisions contained in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). Ms. McGraw argues: “Although the provisions were aimed at strengthening protections for health data in the digital age, they raise substantial implementation challenges and fall short of establishing the comprehensive privacy and security framework needed to build public trust in emerging e-health systems.”
North Carolina
On January 22, 2010, in honor of Data Privacy Day, the University of North Carolina School of Law hosted “Reader Privacy: Should Library Privacy Standards Apply in the Digital World?” a discussion about the privacy we have come to expect as readers of books, and an exploration of whether those notions of privacy translate effectively in the world of Google Book Search, the Kindle, the Sony Reader – or to the many pages of text we read online daily. Click HERE to view a video recording of the entire panel discussion through itunes U. Click here to read a blog discussion of the event.
This event was sponsored by the University of North Carolina Center for Media Law and Policy, the UNC School of Law, the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library, the University of North Carolina University Libraries, the UNC School of Information and Library Science, and The Privacy Projects.
Washington
On January 28, 2010, the Technology Law Society, Advocates for the Arts (AFTA), and the Law, Technology & Arts Group of the University of Washington School of Law presented “Surveillance Art: You Are Being Watched,” a panel discussion focused on Surveillance Art and competing rights of the artist and the public. The discussion featured Dr. James Coupe, an artist and Assistant Professor at the University of Washington Department of Digital Art and Experimental Media; Melvyn Simburg of Simburg, Ketter, Sheppard & Purdy, LLP (WLA Lawyer); Brian Alseth, Technology & Liberty Project Director, ACLU of Washington; and Mr. Peter Winn, Assistant U.S. Attorney.
Canada
Dalhousie University and the Canadian Association of Professional Access & Privacy Administrators offered Dalhousie Data Protection Day 2010, a half-day conference focusing on topics for privacy professionals and educational workshops looking at day-to-day privacy solutions for Dalhousie staff, featuring presentations by Dr. Dawn Jutla and David Fraser among others. For more information about the conference, visit http://its.dal.ca/ddpd10/.
On January 28, 2010, the University of Alberta, the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta, Deloitte, and Service Alberta , Government of Alberta, presented a symposium on Data Breaches and Data Breach Reporting in honor of Data Privacy Day. Featuring Frank Work, Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta; David Loukidelis, Information and Privacy Commissioner of British Columbia; Gary Dickson, Information and Privacy Commissioner of Saskatchewan; and keynote speaker Don Sheehy of Deloitte, the event was held from 8:15 – 11:30 am in the MacKenzie Room of the Delta Edmonton Centre Suite Hotel, Conference Centre.
In honor of Data Privacy Day 2010, Memorial University’s Information Access and Privacy Protection Office presented an open privacy training session from 8:30 am to 12 noon on Monday, February 1, 2010. Lawyers, privacy professionals, Memorial University employees and others were invited to join Rosemary Smith, Information Access and Privacy Protection Coordinator, in the Junior Common Room of R. Gushue Hall for a discussion of privacy obligations, privacy tools, compliance and more. Register here.
International
The Research Group on Law, Science, Technology & Society of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (LSTS/VUB), together with other institutional, academic and corporate partners, organized a series of activities for Data Protection Day on 28 January 2010, including: a political debate on privacy at the European Parliament, bringing together decision makers, academics, youngsters, experts in communication and representatives of the private sector and civil society; a Pecha Kucha; an awards ceremony of 3 prizes for civil society (best privacy campaign), for IT specialists (best privacy boosting technology), and for artists (best artistic expression of privacy); and a privacy party, with DJs and privacy technologies.
In the two following days, the LSTS/VUB, together with research centres and universities, organized the third edition of the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection conference – CPDP2010. The CPDP was held in Brussels on the 29th and 30th January, and featured panels on stakeholders’ agendas and specific topics as well as parallel sessions on Ambient Intelligence, Cloud Computing, and data protection in Justice and Home Affairs. Further information on the program and the inscription are available on the website.
The research group on Law, Science, Technology and Society of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel presented: “On the value of privacy and data protection: Data Protection Day 2010,” a booklet containing numerous articles by European and US privacy experts, academics, and government officials in honour of Data Protection Day. The booklet offers also an overview of the main initiatives that will take place in Brussels in occasion of the 4th Data Protection Day.
___________________________________________________________________________________
Search
Official Sponsors
 |
|
 |
 |
|
|