From: EPIC News [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 11:21 PM To: EPIC Info 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. . ************************************************************************************ Distributed through Cyber-Society-Live [CSL]: CSL is a moderated discussion list made up of people who are interested in the interdisciplinary academic study of Cyber Society in all its manifestations.To join the list please visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/cyber-society-live.html *************************************************************************************