roundtable: Alert #2: Fifth Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy

roundtable: Alert #2: Fifth Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy

Alert #2: Fifth Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy

Carey Heckman (ceh@leland.Stanford.EDU)
Mon, 13 Mar 1995 00:24:41 -0800 (PST) 

From: Carey Heckman <ceh@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Message-Id: <199503130824.AAA01530@elaine25.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Alert #2: Fifth Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 00:24:41 -0800 (PST)
To: roundtable@cni.org


* WHO'S CFP?
* SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT
* BIRDS OF A FEATHER SESSIONS
* A MACHINE ROOM
* TUTORIALS
* REGISTRATION DEADLINE: MARCH 14
* CONNECTING TO CFP'95


* WHO'S CFP?

Do you belong at the Fifth Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy 
(CFP'95) which takes place March 28-31, 1995 in Burlingame, California?

You do if you are concerned about the definition of rights, and the 
processes by which they are being defined, now that computer and 
telecommunications technologies have become part of mainstream living, 
conversation, and politics. CFP'95 participants will include people from 
the fields of computer science, business, public policy, government, law 
enforcement, research, information, health, law, civil liberties, library 
science, education, social science, and many others.

Among the early registrants: The president of an East Coast software 
developer, a Canadian government official, a former general counsel of 
IBM, a computer science professor from MIT, a high school history teacher, 
an attorney from Italy, a partner from a major Silicon Valley law firm, 
an anthropologist, the CEO of a British software company, and an exchange 
student from Russia.

CFP'95 offers a much-needed neutral ground, a demilitarized zone, where 
people from widely different backgrounds and positions can learn from 
each other. Like past Computers, Freedom and Privacy conferences, CFP'95 
will be a place where information industry executives talk to concerned 
end users, law enforcement officials talk to civil rights advocates, 
information systems managers talk to legal and security experts. and 
more. This interaction, and the mutual understanding it promotes, will 
shape the future.


SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT

Gain new insights from the different perspectives offered by the CFP'95 
speakers, as well as the participants.

A business viewpoint will come from keynote speaker John Morgridge, 
chairman of Cisco Systems. Social implications will be assessed by Roger 
Wilkins a Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator for National Public Radio and 
Professor of History and American Culture at George Mason University. New 
ways of thinking about property rights in the computer and computer 
communications world will be offered by Margaret Jane Radin, a Stanford 
Law School professor and expert on property law and political philosophy. 
Computers, freedom, and privacy in the big emerging markets of Eastern 
Europe and the former Soviet Union will be analyzed by Esther Dyson, a 
recognized expert on that region's computer industry and co-chair of the 
National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council's Information Privacy 
and Intellectual Property Subcommittee.

Reflecting a similar diversity is the list of speakers in the main program 
added since the publication of the conference brochure. These additional 
speakers include:

 * Scott Charney (Chief, Computer Crime Unit, Department of Justice): 
 * Mark Traphagen (Software Publishers Association)
 * Francis Preston (President and CEO, Broadcast Music, Incorporated (BMI))
 * Terry Southwick (Attorney-Advisor, US Patent and Trademark Office)
 * Gary Sikorski (former U.S. Congressman; West Publishing representative)
 * Stephen Walker (Trusted Information Systems)
 * Barbara Clements (National Elementary and Secondary Education Data
        and Information Systems Project)
 * Kenneth Rosenblatt (Assistant District Attorney, Santa Clara County)
 * Tim May (Independent Investor and Consultant, Cypherpunks co-founder)
 * Michael Stern (VP Business Affairs and General Counsel, General Magic)
 * David Chaum (DigiCash bv)
 * Don Ingraham (Deputy District Attorney, Alameda County)
 * Yale Braunstein (U.C. Berkeley School of Library and Information Science)
 * Janlori Goldman (Deputy Director, Center for Democracy and Technology)


BIRDS OF A FEATHER SESSIONS

CFP'95 during the day will bring together people with different interests. 
The CFP'95 Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions in the evenings will let 
participants explore their shared interests in greater detail. Currently 
slated BoFs will cover: 

* Cryptography Policy. Share your opinions with members of the National 
Academy of Sciences/National Research Council commission studying 
cryptography policy at Congress's request. The study began in October, 
1994, and seeks broad input from CFP'95 attendees.

* FCC and FTC Rules. Pending ISDN and caller ID regulation at the FCC, 
and proposed Federal Trade Commission rules for commercial transactions 
using telephones and modems will be the topics of this BoF, led by a 
Washington, D.C. communications attorney.

* Law and Ethics. George Trubow, Director of the Center of Informatics 
Law and Professor of Law at the John Marshall Law School, is leading a 
BoF to generate reactions to Law and Ethics on the Nets (LEON), a project 
the Center is cosponsoring with the American Bar Association's 
Science/Technology Section.

* Cyber Roots. Gary Marx of the University of Colorado will lead a 
general discussion on sociological and anthropological approaches to 
computers, freedom and privacy.

* Governance and Sanctions. Ross Stapleton-Gray, formerly of the CIA and 
now director of TeleDiplomacy, Inc. will lead a "town meeting" BoF to 
determine what, if anything, can be done by the community as a form of 
creative and effective protest/response to anti-social behavior on the 
nets.

* Electronic Cash. Privacy for electronic payments will be discussed in 
detail in a BoF let by the ACM's Myles Losch and a consultant to the 
MONDEX Electronic Purse Consortium.

* Copyright and Media. This BoF will explore the balance between free 
speech, privacy, and copyright protection in the media.


TUTORIALS

The conference sessions and CFP'95 focus on the controversies. The 
tutorials held on March 28, the day before the formal conference opens, 
will help you get the most from CFP'95 by giving you the general 
background needed to discuss the issues of the day.

Get the inside scoop on the new power players in Washington and how you 
can best play with them from Marc Rotenberg and David Banisar of the 
Electronic Privacy Information Center. Learn "Everything You Need To Know 
to Argue About Cryptography" from Matt Blaze, the AT&T researcher who 
discovered a fatal flaw in the Clipper chip. Understand "The Law of 
Fundamental Rights for Non-Lawyers" with the skillful guidance of Mike 
Godwin, EFF Staff Counsel. Confused by copyrights, patents, and 
trademarks? Lance Rose, an attorney and author of "Netlaw," will give 
you the grand tour of "Intellectual Property for the Information Age." 
Other tutorials will explore National ID card initiatives and digital 
activism. A game room that allows participants to explore concepts of 
anonymity, digital personas, and security threats will be hosted by 
Russell Brand, Senior Computer Scientist at Reasoning Systems, and 
friends.


AT LAST, A MACHINE ROOM!

For the first time in CFP history, an onsite Internet Room will be 
available to CFP'95 attendees throughout the conference to make it 
easier for everyone to voice and exchange their views and to keep in 
better touch with the rest of the world. The room will have five 
workstations, four configured with telnet capability and one with a web 
browser to view our conference pages. The equipment, net connection, and 
technical services are being provided by the generous efforts of:

 * Sunset Data & Distribution, which is providing a loan of Sun 
        workstations.
 * John Mayes and Assoc. of Palo Alto, which is configuring the machines 
        and providing technical services 
 * TLGnet, a San Francisco-based Internet service provider, which is 
        donating the connection and technical expertise. 


REGISTRATION DEADLINE: MARCH 14

Act now! Save 15% by registering for CFP'95 before Wednesday, March 15. 
You can do this by mail, phone, fax, or electronic mail. See the contact 
information below for how to get registration information.


CONNECTING TO CFP'95

Registration and other information about CFP'95 is readily available from 
many sources:

By WWW:       URL=http://www-techlaw.stanford.edu/CFP95.html
By Gopher:    www-techlaw.stanford.edu
By FTP:       www-techlaw.stanford.edu
By Email:     Info.CFP95@forsythe.stanford.edu
By Fax:       (415) 548-0840
By Telephone: (415) 548-9673

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