From the site: 

PrivacyCampDC09 is an unconference (what’s this?)  about Privacy and Government Issues using about Privacy with a particular focus on electronic privacy and Government Policy. The goal is to connect researchers, developers, practitioners, citizens and other enthusiasts for a day of intense collaboration and knowledge sharing.

To give you a better idea of what PrivacyCampDC is all about, here’s a list of topics that may be addressed (in no particular order). A lot of these terms overlap and there often isn’t a clear-cut boundary with neighboring themes. Please add which angle you’re coming from: 

• Government protection of consumer privacy
• Internet privacy regulations
• Deep Packet Inspection
• Obama Administration and Privacy
• Health Care Reform and Privacy
• Voter Privacy
• Government collection of citizen data
• Data breach law

RSVP on Eventbrite:http://privacycampdc09.eventbrite.com/

Date: Saturday, June 20, 2009 at 8 a.m.
Location: Center For American Progress Action Fund; 1333 H Street, NW; Washington, DC
For more information: http://privacycampdc09.com

The posting will be light this week, since I’ll be at Computers, Freedom and Privacy 2009 through Thursday. 

Computers, Freedom and Privacy is an annual conference to discuss the privacy, security and civil liberty questions raised by emerging technologies or new uses of old technologies. This year’s theme is “Creating the Future.” Check out the interesting panels on the program, including two panels that I am moderating, on airport behavior detection programs and a global information privacy regime.

Computers, Freedom and Privacy is an annual conference to discuss the privacy, security and civil liberty questions raised by emerging technologies or new uses of old technologies. This year’s theme is “Creating the Future.”

The conference runs from June 1 to June 4 in Washington, DC. You can still register. Note that government employees and the press may attend for free, but you will have to show identification proving your status when you check in at the registration table. 

There are a number of interesting panels on the program, including two panels that I am moderating: 

On Wednesday June 3 from 2 p.m. to 3:15 p.m., I will be moderating a panel on airport behavior detection programs. The panelists are:

Paul Ekman, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, UCSF Manager, Paul Ekman Group LLC 
Peter Pietra, Director, Privacy Policy & Compliance, Transportation Security Administration 
Peter Swire, Ohio State University, Center for American Progress; former Chief Counselor for Privacy for US Government 
Bruce Schneier, CSTO, BT 

Here’s the blurb: (more…)

There’s a free public conference tomorrow at Fordham that sounds interesting. From the Web site: 

Privacy Rights and Wrongs: Balancing Moral Priorities for the 21st Century
Sponsored by The Center for Ethics Education and The Center on Law & Information Policy

With presentations from well-known academics and experts, this multidisciplinary conference will explore a number of issues related to the topic of privacy and privacy rights, especially in light of recent technological developments and current concerns about terrorism. In addition, this conference will address the problem of defining and defending “privacy rights” within the context of varying legal, moral, and political discourses, as well as the importance of understanding the value of privacy against the backdrop of other values and concerns, such as the doing of justice, the preserving of the common good, and the maintenance and fostering of personal accountability.

Speakers and topics include:

Keynote Address: The Key to Limiting Privacy is Oversight
Amitai Etzioni
University Professor of International Affairs and Director, Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies
The George Washington University

The Philosophy of Surveillance: A Contractarian Reading
Anita L. Allen
Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy
University of Pennsylvania

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The International Spy Museum in Washington, DC will have an event: “America on a Need-to-Know Basis: Secrecy in a Free Society.” Tickets are $15 for nonmembers.

“Secrecy and deception will always create problems in a free society…” – former State Department intelligence chief Roger Hilsman, 1967

Government secrecy — necessary evil, essential protection, ready cover-up, or useful bureaucratic measure? Americans wrestle with the concept of government secrecy, but tend to find it more acceptable when they feel threatened. But how much secrecy is too much and when does classification become control without bounds? Moderator Shelby Coffey III, senior fellow of the Freedom Forum and former editor and executive vice president of the Los Angeles Times, will engage a panel of experts in an exploration of these crucial questions. Join Thomas S. Blanton, executive director of the National Security Archive; Peter Earnest, former chief of the CIA office responsible for FOIA, privacy, and litigation issues in the clandestine service; Ronald Goldfarb, author of In Confidence: When to Protect Secrecy and When to Require Disclosure; and Mike Levin, former chief of information policy at the National Security Agency; for a lively exchange of views on the inherent tension between the public’s right to knowledge and the government’s duty to safeguard vital national security information.

Date: April 14, 2009 at 6:30 p.m.
Location: International Spy Museum; 800 F. Street NW; Washington, DC
For more information: http://tinyurl.com/db9n9o

From the Web site:

Confronting the Third Party Doctrine and the Privacy of Personal Information

BCLT’s 2009 Privacy Lecture features an address by Richard A. Epstein, the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago.

Professor Epstein is known for his research and writing in a broad range of constitutional, economic, historical, and philosophical subjects. In 2003 he was awarded an honorary degree in law from Ghent University. In 2005 he was named by Legal Affairs magazine as one of the twenty leading legal thinkers in the United States. Also in 2005, the College of William & Mary School of Law awarded him the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize.

Responses to Professor Epstein’s 2008 BCLT Privacy Lecture will be made by Professor Orin Kerr and Assistant Professor Erin Murphy.

Orin Kerr teaches criminal law, criminal procedure, and computer crime law. He is the is a co-author of the leading casebook in criminal procedure and also a co-author of the leading treatise in criminal procedure. (more…)