Fifth Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Pirvacy

The Fifth Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy

Sponsored by:          * ACM SIGCOMM, SIGCAS, SIGSAC, and
                       * Stanford Law School

28 - 31 March 1995
San Francisco Airport Marriott Hotel
Burlingame, California

CONNECT WITH OTHERS WHO ARE DETERMINING HOW COMPUTERS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS WILL AFFECT YOUR FREEDOM AND PRIVACY... JOIN US AT CFP'95. We have reached the crossroads of the Information Age.

No longer is the electronic frontier inhabited solely by a small band of technical pioneers sharing a common code of conduct. Computer and telecommunications technologies have become part of mainstream living, conversation, and politics. These changes compel us to reexamine the definition of our rights and the processes by which those rights are being defined.

The Fifth Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy will assemble experts, advocates and interested people from a broad spectrum of disciplines and backgrounds in a balanced public forum to explore and better understand the definition of our rights at this crossroads.

Participants will include people from the fields of computer science, law, business, research, information, library science, health, public policy, government, law enforcement, public advocacy, and many others.

Featured speakers include:

John P. Morgridge, Chairman, Cisco Systems Esther Dyson, Release 1.0/EDVenture Holdings, Inc. Roger W. Wilkins, Professor of History and American Culture at George

     Mason University and commentator, National Public Radio Margaret Jane Radin, Professor of Law, Stanford University Willis H. Ware, RAND

Some of the topics in the CFP'95 program include:

FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY OF ELECTRONIC SPEECH -- Exploring recent controversies in online free speech, including a Socratic forum that will ask whether the Constitution can indeed be viewed through a technologically transparent lens.

HIS MASTER'S VOICE... -- Probing the future for "net propaganda" from governments, government officials, and politicians, and who will pay so whose message will get to whom.

STUDENT DATABASES: FOR EDUCATION AND FOR LIFE? -- Looking at how gaining the benefits of nationwide information about K-12 students could also spell serious privacy problems.

CAN THE NET SURVIVE COPYRIGHT? CAN COPYRIGHT SURVIVE THE NET? -- Delving into the controversies surrounding copyright protection that throttles freedoms and copyright protection that protects just rewards for creativity.

INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS: PAVING OVER PRIVACY -- Examining the privacy implications of tracking and surveillance technologies now being planned for vehicles and roadways nationwide.

"IT OUGHTA BE A CRIME..." -- Debating with law enforcement representatives about who should set the rules for governing the net and when should bad manners become a crime.

WHEN DO THEY NEED TO KNOW 'WHODUNNIT'? -- Discussing the right time and places for identified, anonymous, and pseudonymous transactions.

TRANSACTION RECORDS IN INTERACTIVE SERVICES: WHO WATCHES THE SERVERS? -- Looking at the issues raised by the collection of personal information as part of the new interactive home entertainment, telecommunications, and online services.

DEFINING ACCESS PARADIGMS: LIBRARIES, RURAL AREAS, AND INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS -- Evaluating the differing models of "open access" to Internet and computer-mediated communications in the library, rural, and lesserdeveloped  country contexts.

THE CASE AGAINST COMPUTERS: A SYSTEMIC CRITIQUE -- Daring to discuss whether computers may be doing our world more harm than good.

A NET FOR ALL: WHERE ARE THE MINORITIES? -- Examining how and to what degree minority groups participate on the net and asking whether social class is relevant to net participation or non-participation.

WHO OWNS THE LAW? -- Reviewing the debate over legal citation form and online databases, and what it means to all of us.

CAN WE TALK LONG-DISTANCE? REMOVING IMPEDIMENTS TO SECURE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS -- Covering export and import controls, outright prohibitions, and other technical and policy obstacles to secure international communications.

The Fifth Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy will also offer a number of in-depth tutorials on subjects including:

• Inside Washington: The New Congress and Secrets of Advocacy
• National ID Card Initiatives
• The Law of Fundamental Rights for Non-Lawyers
• Everything You Need to Know to Argue About Cryptography
• Digital Activism
• Inside the World of Law Enforcement
• Intellectual Property for the Information Age

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT CFP'95: Web: http://www-techlaw.stanford.edu/CFP95.html Gopher: gopher://www-techlaw.stanford.edu/CFP95 FTP: ftp://www-techlaw.stanford.edu/CFP95 Email: Info.CFP95[_at_]forsythe.stanford.edu Fax: (415) 548-0840
Call: (415) 548-9673

• Our room block is limited and the $99 conference rate is guaranteed *
• only until February 17,1995, so we urge you to make your reservations *
• as early as possible. *

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