Policy Post 6.05 | CFP2000 in Toronto: Early Registration Deadline Approaching

CDT POLICY POST Volume 6, Number 5 February 18, 2000

A BRIEFING ON PUBLIC POLICY ISSUES AFFECTING CIVIL LIBERTIES ONLINE
from
THE CENTER FOR DEMOCRACY AND TECHNOLOGY

CONTENTS:
(1) CFP2000 in Toronto: Early Registration Deadline Approaching
(2) Sessions on Privacy, Law Enforcement and Free Speech Feature CDT Staff

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(1) CFP2000 IN TORONTO: EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS MARCH 3

The Computers, Freedom and Privacy (CFP) conference is the pre-eminent forum for issues regarding democracy and technology. This year, it will be April 4-7 in Toronto, Canada.

2000 marks CFP's 10th anniversary. As the Internet has grown, the conference has been able to maintain the collective and inclusive nature so elegantly chronicled in Bruce Sterling's book _Hacker Crackdown_. The CFP audience is as diverse as the Net itself, with attendees from the community of computer professionals, hackers, crackers and engineers who work the code of cyberspace as well as those from government, business, education, and non-profits grappling with the technology's public policy implications.

CFP is run on a non-profit basis under the auspices of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). All the planning work is done by volunteers - contributing to its wonderfully collaborative atmosphere.

March 3 is the deadline for early registration -- fees go up thereafter, although either way they are remarkably low.

For the schedule of events, general info and online registration, visit the CFP2000 site: http://www.cfp2000.org/.

If you have never been to a CFP and want to know what its like, check out the excellent summary of CFP '99 at http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/DV/NotesCFP99.html

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(2) SESSIONS ON PRIVACY BY DESIGN, JUSTICE TECHNOLOGIES, AUTHENTICATION AND FEDERAL ELECTION LAW TO FEATURE CDT STAFF

CDT staff will be participating in several of this year's sessions:

A Workshop on Freedom and Privacy by Design will bring together implementers and those who have studied the social issues of freedom and privacy to generate ideas and implementation strategies for freedom-enhancing systems. CDT Staff Counsel Deirdre Mulligan and Policy Analyst Ari Schwartz will present a paper on designing privacy for information storage. See http://www.cfp2000.org/workshop/ for more information.
CDT's Executive Director Jerry Berman, who will have just returned from the ICANN meeting in Cairo, will be on a panel entitled "Domain Names Under ICANN: Technical Management or Policy Chokepoint?" to discuss the proper role of this still-evolving Internet governance body.
Senior Staff Counsel James Dempsey and law enforcement representatives will examine new criminal justice technologies and their impact on privacy.
Staff Counsel Deirdre Mulligan will moderate a panel on digital authentication.

Other sessions will take up such diverse issues as Internet voting, regulation of political advocacy online, broadband and free speech, and intellectual property.

Keynote speakers include such Internet luminaries as cryptographer Whit Diffie, investigative journalist Duncan Campbell, and cyperpunk novelist Neal Stephenson.

CDT has taken an active role in CFP preparations, through in-kind sponsorship and membership on the conference's program committee. We are especially proud of the work of our webmaster and graphic artist, Alek Gembinski, who designed this year's CFP materials.

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