Program

Security and Liberty Forum

Saturday, April 14, 2007 1-5 p.m.
Chapman Hall on the UNC Campus

Free and open to the public

Thank you one and all for attending. Speakers slides and videos are now available.

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2008 Forum Co-sponsorship Opportunities

The events that took place on 9/11 have changed our society in utterly profound ways.  The need for national security in an age of international terrorism often comes in conflict with our desire to preserve individual civil liberties. The public’s desire for speed, convenience, and instant information access can often bring unanticipated side effects.

The purpose of this event is to bring in experts from academia, business, and government--in the fields of security, data collection, data mining, and privacy--together in a forum where they may share with a local audience their perspectives, concerns, ideas, and sometimes competing interests.  We hope to explore the fundamental ethical and practical concerns with regard to data collection, sharing, and retention within the private sector--and between the private sector and government--and to help shed light on important current events.

Speaker and Panel Discussion topics

Confirmed Speakers and Panel Members

Annie Antón, Director, The Privacy Place & North Carolina State University
http://www.theprivacyplace.org

Katherine Bryant, Vice President for Consumer Advocacy at ChoicePoint
www.choicepoint.net

Sen. Janet Cowell, State Senator, State of North Carolina
www.janetcowell.com/main.htm

Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, the CATO Institute
www.cato.org/people/harper.html

Melissa Ngo, Staff Counsel and Director of EPIC's Identification and Surveillance Project
www.epic.org

Bruce Schneier, internationally renowned security technologist and author
www.schneier.com

Gene Spafford, Executive Director, CERIAS - Center for Education and
Research in Information Assurance and Security
spaf.cerias.purdue.edu

Barry Steinhardt, Director of the Technology & Liberty Program, American Civil Liberties Union
www.aclu.org

Hosts

Privacy and Technology Committee of the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina
Department of Computer Science, UNC-Chapel Hill

Co-sponsors

Electronic Privacy Information Center (epic.org)
ibiblio.org, UNC-Chapel Hill
Information Science and Information Studies, Duke University
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development, UNC-Chapel Hill
The College of Arts and Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill
The Internet and the Social Sciences working group of the Odum Institute, UNC-Chapel Hill
The School of Information and Library Science, UNC-Chapel Hill
The School of Journalism and Mass Communication, UNC-Chapel Hill
The School of Government Center for Public Technology, UNC-Chapel Hill
The Parr Center for Ethics, Department of Philosophy UNC-Chapel Hill


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