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- Subject: 3rd Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference
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- | F.Y.I. |Newsnote from the Electronic Frontier Foundation | 1/8/93 |
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- CFP'93
- The Third Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy
- 9-12 March 1993
- San Francisco Airport Marriott Hotel, Burlingame, CA
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- The CFP'93 will assemble experts, advocates and interested people from a
- broad spectrum of disciplines and backgrounds in a balanced public forum
- to address the impact of computer and telecommunications technologies on
- freedom and privacy in society.
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- 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. Some of the
- topics in the wide-ranging CFP'93 program will include:
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- ELECTRONIC DEMOCRACY - looking at how computers and networks are changing
- democratic institutions and processes.
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- ELECTRONIC VOTING - addressing the security, reliability, practicality and
- legality of automated vote tallying systems and their increasing use.
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- CENSORSHIP AND FREE SPEECH ON THE NET - discussing the problems of
- maintaining freedom of electronic speech across communities and cultures.
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- PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST ON THE NET - probing the problems and potential of
- new forms of artistic expression enabled by computers and networks.
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- DIGITAL TELEPHONY AND CRYPTOGRAPHY - debating the ability of technology to
- protect the privacy of personal communications versus the needs of law
- enforcement and government agencies to tap in.
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- HEALTH RECORDS AND CONFIDENTIALITY - examining the threats to the privacy
- of medical records as health care reform moves towards increasing
- automation.
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- THE MANY FACES OF PRIVACY - evaluating the benefits and costs of the use
- of personal information by business and government.
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- THE DIGITAL INDIVIDUAL - exploring the increasing capabilities of
- technology to track and profile us.
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- GENDER ISSUES IN COMPUTING AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS - reviewing the issues
- surrounding gender and online interaction.
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- THE HAND THAT WIELDS THE GAVEL - a moot court dealing with legal
- liability, responsibility, security and ethics of computer and network
- use.
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- THE POWER, POLITICS AND PROMISE OF INTERNETWORKING - covering the
- development of networking infrastructures, domestically and worldwide.
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- INTERNATIONAL DATA FLOW - analyzing the issues in the flow of information
- over the global matrix of computer networks and attempts to regulate it.
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- The conference will also offer a number of in-depth tutorials on subjects
- including:
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- * Information use in the private sector * Constitutional law and civil
- liberties * Investigating telecom fraud * Practical data inferencing *
- Privacy in the public and private workplace * Legal issues for sysops *
- Access to government information * Navigating the Internet
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- INFORMATION For more information on the CFP'93 program and advance
- registration call, write or email to:
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- CFP'93 INFORMATION 2210 SIXTH STREET BERKELEY, CA 94710 (510) 845-1350
- cfp93@well.sf.ca.us
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- A complete electronic version of the conference brochure with more
- detailed descriptions of the sessions, tutorials, and registration
- information is also available via anonymous ftp from sail.stanford.edu in
- the file: pub/les/cfp-93
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