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- From: faigin@aero.org (Daniel P. Faigin)
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- Subject: CFP 93: Third Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy
- Date: 8 Jan 93 09:17:39
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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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- (co-sponsored by ACM SIGSAC, SIGCAS, and SIGCOMM)
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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
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- 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
-
- [Daniel Faigin, Chair, ACM/SIGSAC]
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