Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, PRIVACY NEWS: FTC releases PrivacyCon agenda, (Dec 30, 2015)
Organizations Mentioned:Privacy & Security
By Greg Hammond, J.D.
The FTC has released its agenda for PrivacyCon, a January 14, 2016 conference that will bring together leading researchers, academics, industry representatives, federal policymakers, consumer advocates, and other stakeholders to examine cutting-edge research and trends in protecting consumer privacy and security.
According to the agenda, Chairwoman Edith Ramirez will present opening remarks, followed by a number of presentations, including: (1) The Current State of Online Privacy (with papers presented by Ibrahim Altaweel, Steven Englehardt, Chris Hoofnagle, and Joseph Turow, and discussion by Justin Brookman, Omer Tene, and Elana Zeide); (2) Consumers’ Privacy Expectations (with papers presented by Serge Egelman, Ashwini Rao, Heather Shoenberger, Jasmine McNealy, Andelka Phillips, and Jan Charbonneau, and discussion by Kristin Anderson, Darren Stevenson, and Alan McQuinn); (3) remarks by FTC Commissioner Julie Brill; (4) Big Data and Algorithms: Transparency Tools Revealing Data Discrimination (with presenters Michael Tschantz, Toxana Geambasu, and Daniel Hsu, and discussion by Dan Salsburg, James Cooper, and Deirdre Mulligan); (5) Economics of Privacy & Security (with papers presented by Jens Grossklags and Sasha Romanosky, and discussion by Kevin Moriarty, Doug Smith, and Siona Listokin); (6) Security and Usability (with papers presented by Sarthak Grover, Vitaly Shmatikov, Florian Schaub, and Norman Sadeh, and discussion by Aaron Alva, Geoffrey Manne, and Davi Ottenheimer); and (7) closing remarks presented by FTC Chief Technologist Lorrie Cranor.
The one day conference, which will be held on January 14, 2016, at the Constitution Center in Washington, D.C., is free and open to the public. To attend in person, attendees should email privacycon@ftc.gov with the subject line “Preregistration,” and include first and last names and the organization with which they are affiliated. A live webcast of the event also will be made available.
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