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IMMEDIATE
CFP CONFERENCE CONFRONTS FREEDOM AND PRIVACY
"Who's Watching the Watchers" Explores Role of Technology in Post-9/11 World
New York, March 19, 2004 --
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Fourteenth Annual Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy sponsored by ACM
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Electronic Voting: The Great Paper Trail Debate
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RFID and Privacy
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Overseeing the Poor: Technology Privacy Invasions Of Vulnerable Groups
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Tapping the Net: Voice over IP and Law Enforcement
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Gatekeepers of the Web: The unexpected tyranny of search engines
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Datamining: Is It Useful To Know What We Don't Know We Don't Know?
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Open Source, Open Society
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Suing File Sharers: Privacy and Liberty Implications
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The Net: Caught in the FCC's Web?
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Fahrenheit 451.3: Using ISPs to Control Internet Content
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WHEN:
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April 20-23 - Complimentary press registration (except meals) at cfp2004.org.
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WHERE:
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Claremont Resort and Spa, 41 Tunnel Rd., Berkeley, CA 94705
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WHO:
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More than 50 opinion leaders focused on the future of freedom and privacy in
the online world. Speakers include Verified Voting.org founder David Dill,
Digital Librarian and inventor Brewster Kahle, California Voter Foundation
President Kim Alexander, Moveon.org's Wes Boyd, Public Knowledge Co-founder
Gigi Sohn, EPIC Associate Director Chris Hoofnagle, Digital Copyright author
Jessica Litman, Meetup.com's Don Means,
ACM former president Barbara Simons,
Clinton Administration privacy counselor Peter Swire, Electronic Frontier
Foundation Senior Staff Attorney Fred Von Lohmann, and Acxiom's Chief Privacy
Officer Jennifer Barrett.
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WHY:
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As the nation balances its preoccupation toward security with its
predisposition for freedom, CFP2004 explores critical issues facing the online
world. CFP2004 brings representatives from government, business, education,
and non-profits together with the community of computer professionals,
hackers, and engineers who work the code of cyberspace.
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About Computers, Freedom and Privacy (CFP)
CFP (www.cfp2004.org) is the leading
Internet policy conference, shaping the public debate on the future of privacy
and freedom in the online world for more than a decade. The CFP audience is as
diverse as the net itself, with participants from government, law enforcement,
business, education, non-profits, and the media. CFP is the place where the
future is mapped. The CFP2004 Chair is Deirdre K. Mulligan, Director of the
Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at the University of
California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall).
About ACM
ACM (www.acm.org) is widely recognized as the
premier organization for computing professionals, delivering a broad array of
resources that advance the computing and IT disciplines, enable professional
development, and promote policies and research that benefit society.
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