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Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 11:21 PM
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Subject: Register Now for CFP 2001!



CFP2001: The Eleventh Conference on Computers, Freedom and
Privacy.  March 6 - 9, 2001, Hyatt Regency, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, USA

CFP gathers together the world's leading members of the
technical, government, business, education, non-profit, legal,
law enforcement, security, media and hacker/cracker communities
to address the cutting edge questions in computing, freedom and
privacy.

     http://www.cfp2001.org/

REGISTER for CFP2001.  Early fees deadline is February 18, 2001.
Reserve your hotel room.  Reduced rate deadline is February 15,
2001.

     http://www.cfp2001.org/php/control/main.php?l1=2

CFP 2001 Program Overview.

At CFP2001, there will be tutorials, plenary sessions, lunch
breakout sessions, awards ceremonies, and birds-of-a-feather
sessions.

Tutorials.  The tutorials are three-hour sessions, which will be
held on Tuesday, March 6.  Tutorial topics include: Free Speech
and the Constitution in Cyberspace, Introduction to Cryptography,
Click Here for the Revolution: Secrets of NGO Advocacy, Chief
Privacy Officer Training Session, National and International
Rules Relating to Domain Names and Trademarks: What Are They and
How Do They Apply?

Plenary Sessions.  The conference plenary sessions will be held
on Wednesday - Friday, March 7 - 9.  Plenary sessions include:
Privacy Debate, Gadgets That Spy, Cyber-crime and Cyber-rights:
The Council of Europe Convention, The ICANN Election, The IETF
Standards Landscape, The Great Ballot Debate, Intellectual
Property Debate, UCITA: Uniform Computer Information Transactions
Act, Chief Privacy Officers: Boon or Bandaid?, Carnivore, Through
a Glass Darkly: The Opaque Nature of International Rule Making -
The Hague Convention and the G-8, Information Technology in the
Service of Human Rights, Social Implications of Nanotechnology
and Organic Computing.

Breakout Sessions.  Lunch breakout sessions will be held on
Wednesday and Thursday, March 7 and 8.  During the conference
lunch breaks, there will be a choice of breakout sessions on
various hot topics including: Children's Internet Protection Act
(CIPA), What the Surveys Say About the Public's Views on Privacy,
Current Issues In Cryptography, Reflections on the White House
Privacy Office, Medical Privacy, PGP from Design to
Implementation (& PGP Key Signing), Electronic Access to Public
Records in California, Censorship and the Arts.

BOFs.  The birds-of-a-feather sessions are a longstanding CFP
tradition.  There will be an alphabet soup of cyberhappenings:
book signings, Carnivore demos, cypherpunks, debates,
discussions, hearings, PGP key registries, presentations, and
more.

CFP 2001 Related Events.

The Tenth Annual International EFF Pioneer Awards.  In every
field of human endeavor, there are those dedicated to expanding
knowledge, freedom, efficiency, and utility.  Many of today's
brightest innovators are working along the electronic frontier.
To recognize these leaders, the Electronic Frontier Foundation
established the Pioneer Awards for deserving individuals and
organizations.

     http://www.eff.org/awards/pioneer.html

3rd Annual U.S. Big Brother Awards - Privacy International.
Each year, the members and affiliated organizations of Privacy
International present the "Big Brother" awards to the government
and private sector organizations in their countries which have
done the most to threaten personal privacy in their countries.
Awards are also given to individuals and organizations which have
made an outstanding contribution to the protection of privacy.

     http://www.privacy.org/pi/bigbrother/

The Activists Roundtable - Computer Professionals for Social
Responsibility.  Members and Friends of Computer Professionals
for Social Responsiblity will meet at an Activists Roundtable at
Bentley College in Waltham, MA (outside of Boston, MA) on Sunday
March 4, 2001 to share and plot our priorities for the year
ahead.

     http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/roundtable.html

See you at CFP2001.


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