{"id":1417,"date":"2010-05-19T21:53:17","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T04:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2010-05-19T21:53:17","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T04:53:17","slug":"computers-freedom-and-privacy-in-a-networked-society-june-15-18-in-san-jose-and-cyberspace-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2010\/05\/19\/computers-freedom-and-privacy-in-a-networked-society-june-15-18-in-san-jose-and-cyberspace-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"Computers, Freedom, and Privacy in a Networked Society: June 15-18, in San Jose and Cyberspace (DRAFT)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Draft! Work in Progress! Feedback welcome!<\/span><\/p>\n

Revised version intended for Blog@CACM<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Should we have to give up our freedom and privacy to reap the benefits of a constant connection to friends and information?<\/em><\/p>\n

-\u00c2\u00a0 from the CFP 2010 Call for Participation, October 2009
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Talk about great timing!\u00c2\u00a0 With Facebook privacy on the cover of Time<\/em> magazine<\/a> and Google being investigated in Europe and the US after admitting<\/a> that they collected information from home wifi networks, it’s a perfect lead-in to the 20th annual ACM conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy.<\/p>\n

One of the things that makes CFP so distinctive is that we have speakers from Google and Facebook as well as privacy and civil liberties organizations like EFF, EPIC, ACLU, CDT, and many others.\u00c2\u00a0 Attendees include technologists lawyers, activists, and policy experts.\u00c2\u00a0 With heavily-discounted admission for ACM members, students, academics, and non-profits (and free admission for government employees and the press) it’s a heavily multi-disciplinary crowd, the kind of place where cypherpunks can talk with people from the Department of Homeland Security and nobody bats an eye.<\/p>\n

As always we’ve got a very broad program<\/a>: privacy choices online, cybersecurity, trust, healthcare privacy, smart grids, intelligent transportation systems, mobile technologies and resisting surveillance, robots and civil liberties, social network activism, and much more.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s a Work in Progress session<\/a> for research in Cybersecurity and Privacy (with some funding still available!) and a technology fair<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 And on Wednesday June 16, we’ll have the first CFP Unconference, a self-organizing workshop where the attendees set the agenda.<\/p>\n

I’m chairing this year’s conference along with Professor Dorothy Glancy<\/a> of Santa Clara Law, with major assistance from Sigurd Meldal of the Charles W. Davidson College<\/span> of Engineering at San Jose State University and a hard-working team of volunteers.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 If you’re in the Bay Area, we hope you’ll be able to join us in-person — here’s the registration page.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 If you can’t make it to the event, we’re planning on streaming video, and we’ll have an active Twitter and Google Wave backchannel.\u00c2\u00a0 And we’ll be blogging, too, here on BLOG@CACM and on the CFP blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"There’s way more to discuss about CFP than can fit into a single blog post, so you’ll hear from us multiple times here before and during the conference.\u00c2\u00a0 To kick things off, I’ll focus on a topic that’s particularly hot right now: privacy and social networks.<\/p>\n

It’s a topic that’s been simmering for quite a while,\u00c2\u00a0 but Facebook’s recent OpenGraph announcements at their f8 conference in April have kicked it into overdrive.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The backlash has been intense, and as a result both MySpace and Facebook have announced that they’ll be giving people simpler ways<\/a> of controlling their information — a big win for everybody’s privacy if they do it well.\u00c2\u00a0 [If you haven’t been tracking it, in a post earlier this week on the CFP blog<\/a> I linked to thought-provoking posts by past CFP’ers danah boyd, Ryan Singel, Michael Zimmer, Nisha Chittal, and Marc Rosenberg.]<\/p>\n

With over 400,000,000 people affected, it’s made the leap from the technology press to mainstream media<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Suddenly, the kinds of questions we’ve talked about for years at CFP are the stuff of everyday conversations:<\/p>\n