PRIVACY Forum Digest Friday, 7 July 1995 Volume 04 : Issue 15
Moderated by Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com)
Vortex Technology, Woodland Hills, CA, U.S.A.
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CONTENTS
Caller-ID for psychic knowledge (Rita C. Summers)
Re: Why can't I see Equifax medical records? (Stanley Quayle)
Re: Comedy Central - why have a password? (Martin Minow)
Thermal imaging (Beth Givens)
MasterCard Asks America [fwd] (Lance J. Hoffman)
Do Readers Have a Right to Be Left Alone? (Thomas C. Leonard)
V-Chip (Stephen Nelson)
Re: V-Chip (Lauren Weinstein; PRIVACY Forum Moderator)
Tracking parolees (Phil Agre)
International Cryptography Institute 1995: Global Challenges
(Dorothy Denning)
Sixth Conference on Comupters, Freedom, and Privacy (Hal Abelson)
National Privacy & Public Policy Symposium
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VOLUME 04, ISSUE 15
Quote for the day:
"Those who are late will not get fruit cup."
-- Nurse Diesel (Cloris Leachman)
"High Anxiety" (1977)
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Date: 18 Jun 95 18:02:12 EDT
From: "Rita C. Summers" <71461.2174@compuserve.com>
Subject: Caller-ID for psychic knowledge
Philip Yam, writing in the July Scientific American, mentions an innovative
use of Caller-ID. The context is a profile on James Randi, who specializes in
debunking "pseudoscientific and paranormal claims." Yam writes: "[Randi]
cites a self-proclaimed psychic who calls himself 'The Great Samaritan.'
Advertising on Spanish-language television, he asks viewers to dial a
900-number for psychic advice. With caller-identification technology and
banks of networked computers at their disposal, operators can obtain
financial and health records, convincing their unsuspecting callers of their
astrological prowess."
Rita Summers
[ Of course, if they were *real* psychics, they
wouldn't need Caller-ID anyway--they'd
already *know* the number you were calling from...
-- MODERATOR ]
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 11:22:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: Stanley Quayle <squayle@freenet.columbus.oh.us>
Subject: Re: Why can't I see Equifax medical records?
> He told me that there was a general convention in the credit business that
> medical creditors _only_ looked at your _medical_ credit entries, and that
> all other types of creditors customarily _ignored_ your medical credit;
> there's (according to him) a kind of Chinese Wall between the two sides of
> the house.
>
> We'd all, I'm sure, be interested to know if this is really the answer,
> though.
It's not the answer. Medical records can only be released to a physician.
The theory is that you wouldn't understand the content of your records,
and professional help might be required in case the records indicate a
disease or condition of which you aren't aware.
And there's no separate category of "medical credit". Your creditors,
medical or otherwise, are the same.
--Stan
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Stanley F. Quayle N8SQ +1 614 276-7507 Fax: +1 614 276-2439
3375 Fisher Rd., Columbus, OH 43204-1412 USA
Internet: squayle@pobox.com
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 95 11:45:19 -0700
From: minow@apple.com (Martin Minow)
Subject: re: Comedy Central - why have a password?
fc@all.net (Dr. Frederick B. Cohen) notes in Privacy V04 #13 that the
Comedy Central cable channel has a password protected Web Site with a
publicly-available password, and wonders why this would be needed. Here
are a few speculative answers:
-- They don't know better (this is my choice).
-- They want to give their viewers a sense of belonging (i.e., a "secret
decoder ring") that gives them a sense of superiority/community.
-- They publish different UserID/Password combinations on different uplinks,
or at different times, to get a better sense of their demographics.
(If you read the computer trade magazines, you'll notice that the major
mail-order companies use a great number of 800 numbers -- the one you use
tells them where you read their advertisement.)
Martin Minow
[ Demographics are probably the key. The issues involved
in gathering even moderately accurate statistics
regarding user populations accessing web pages are
non-trivial. "Registration" of various sorts, even
if only to force a person to "login" once during
a session so they may be counted as having taken
that specific action, is one technique being tried
in various quarters. -- MODERATOR ]
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 17:56:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: Beth Givens <bgivens@pwa.acusd.edu>
Subject: thermal imaging
The most recent issue of _The John Marshall Journal of Computer
and Information Law_ has an article about thermal imaging:
"Thermal Imaging and the Fourth Amendment: Pushing the Katz
Test towards Terminal Velocity" by Daniel J. Polatsek (vol. 13,
no. 3, spring 1995)
Beth Givens Voice: 619-260-4806
Project Director Fax: 619-260-4753
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse Hotline (Calif. only):
Center for Public Interest Law 800-773-7748
University of San Diego e-mail: bgivens@pwa.acusd.edu
5998 Alcala Park
San Diego, CA 92110
[ Thanks for the "hot" tip! -- MODERATOR ]
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Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 15:46:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Lance J. Hoffman" <hoffman@seas.gwu.edu>
Subject: MasterCard Asks America (fwd)
Forwarded message:
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 11:40:16 -0700
From: Susan Evoy <evoy@pcd.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: MasterCard Asks America
Dear CPSR Privacy and Civil Liberties Expert,
CPSR received a mailing from MasterCard today that looked
interesting.
The subtitle of the Press Release is "MasterCard Stops
on Information Super-Highway to Get Directions." The program runs
until Independence Day. "The goal of the program is to find out how
consumers feel about marketing practices that involve the collection,
sale and use of consumer information."
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MasterCard Asks America
MasterCard wants to hear your views about the use of consumer
information by business. What are the benefits you see from
targetted offers and special mailings? How do you feel when
businesses provide information on products and services through
the mail or over the phone? What would you like to know that
would give you more control over the offers you receive?
We welcome your thoughts on these or any other aspect of consumer
privacy by mail, phone or e-mail.
Call Toll Free 1-800-MC-AK-U-1 (1-800-622-7581)
Write to MasterCard Asks America
PO Box 27972, Washington, DC 20038-7972
Or e-mail
privacy_feedback@mhs-mc.attmail.com
or http://www.mastercard.com
--
Professor Lance J. Hoffman
Dept of Elec Eng and Comp Sci, The Geo Washington U, 801 22nd St NW
Wash DC 20052 (202) 994-4955 Fax: (202) 994-0227 hoffman@seas.gwu.edu
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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 10:53:18 PST
From: <LEONARD@rosebud.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Do Readers Have a Right to Be Left Alone?
Privacy Forum has frequently cast a worried eye over the direct mail
industry but has rarely looked at the commercial media that have greater
potential to gather information about citizens-- newspapers and magazines.
PUBLISHERS FIND GOLD IN DATABASES, Advertising Age has announced. Outside
marketing circles, however, the discovery is little noted. The nuggets here
are information about the reader, especially the subscriber's name and
address. There is a brisk trade in these lists. Your name on the
subscription record of an upscale magazine is worth a dime or two, every
time it is sold. A single magazine may sell your name twenty-five times a
year. Many of the most respected American magazines, such as the Atlantic
and the New Yorker, hawk reader's names in the trade press. Names are not
in short supply. Conde Nast has collected eleven million names; Times
Mirror had fifteen million; Hearst had fifty million; Meredith had fifty-six
million; and Reader's Digest had data on line for one hundred million
people, worldwide.
Beyond the bare facts of subscription, the database gold mine that the press
is staking out consists of information that the public may never have of
thought of as a commodity: their own names when they write letters to the
editor or pay for their subscription with a credit card; births, deaths,
marriages and divorces that come into the news; job switches; degrees and
licenses that people have earned; donations to local events and charities.
Seen this way, a great deal of local news is saleable data that marketers
would like to have. Crime reports, for instance, can become names and
addresses of people who will be good customers for burglar alarms and
security lights.
List building is a new imperative of the newspaper business. The Cowles
Publishing Company in Spokane, Washington has pioneered in segmenting its
readers. Thanks to contests, the daily paper knows who owns dogs and who
has young children (they were flushed out in a drawing for circus tickets).
In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the Gazette's MediaStar software allows reporters to
use customer profiles in writing stories and the marketing staff to use news
items in the search for more customers. With a click on a desktop computer,
any street in Cedar Rapids can be summoned up, and every dwelling will glow
with a color that reveals the resident's social and economic position. The
Washington Post, like other papers with the CityLine audiotex, gives
information to readers for free and in return builds a valuable database.
The names and numbers of callers with specific interests--stock quotes,
skiing conditions, sports scores--are used in the paper's own promotions and
sold to direct mail entrepreneur. The trade journal Editor & Publisher has
noted that "when readers call a phone number for a survey of information, it
gives newspapers an unprecedented opportunity to capture information about
who those might be and what the key might be to their wants and desires."
This is truly uncharted territory for journalism. What will happen when
papers have comprehensive, detailed databases on their community and can
trade this information for good will--a process that has begun. Which
charities, which religions, which political interest groups will be favored
with this information? Citizens may feel that their voluntary association
is being guided by the press. With the integration of news and marketing,
the press will know more than anybody else about everyone's business. And
journalists may also gain the suspicion that goes with comprehensive
knowledge. The press will have the public relations problem of credit
agencies, motor vehicle registries, and tax collectors.
I hope, too, that the press will get critical attention from people who
contribute to Privacy Forum. The much-watched Direct Marketers, after all,
have a published ethical code and field questions about what they are up
to. The American press has no such industry code for list building and
rarely lets readers in on the secret of what it is doing with their names.
This challenge to privacy is discussed more fully, with a literature review,
in the book Oxford University Press will publish this fall: News for All:
America's Coming of Age with the Press (ISBN 0-19-506454-2). I would be
glad to hear from other investigators of this marketing trend in American
journalism.
Thomas C. Leonard
Assoc. Dean, Graduate School of Journalism
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-5860
Fax (510) 643-9136
Tel (510) 642-8867
Leonard@Rosebud.Berkeley.Edu
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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 95 14:14:00 PDT
From: "Nelson, Stephen I-Net SSB" <snelson@b856s3a.ssc.af.mil>
Subject: V-Chip
The V-Chip may be the best thing to happen to us all in years. It really
makes concrete a glaring hole in the "Community standards" argument that has
been developing for awhile.
As I understand it, the "community standards" test was designed in reaction
to broadcast media that couldn't be blocked from coming into every home.
However, with the development of cable (which scrambles channels until you
subscribe to them), people didn't have to be exposed to obscene material
unless they requested it. Now we have on-line services, which you have to go
looking for and in certain cases (Usenet news groups, for example) subscribe
to. Now, we are seeing the possibility of blocking ALL content that a
household finds objectionable.
If I ask for something that no one else can get except me in the privacy of
my home, what community am I part of? and whose standards will I be
offending?
[ For those unfamiliar with the term, "V-Chip" refers to a concept
which is part of the recently passed U.S. Senate Telecommunications
rewrite bill (though not so far in the House version) which would
mandate a device to be included in new television receivers to
theoretically allow parents to "block" programming tagged as
"violent" from being seen by their children.
More on this below. -- MODERATOR ]
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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 95 12:26:35 PDT
From: lauren@vortex.com (Lauren Weinstein; PRIVACY Forum Moderator)
Subject: Re: V-Chip
Stephen Nelson <snelson@b856s3a.ssc.af.mil> writes:
> The V-Chip may be the best thing to happen to us all in years. It really
> makes concrete a glaring hole in the "Community standards" argument that has
> been developing for awhile.
This is one of those cases where what seems reasonable in theory may
be quite undesirable in practice.
The problems of defining what would cause a program to be labeled as
"violent" or otherwise offensive is a very difficult one. The MPAA (the
motion picture organization which assigns film ratings) has had a hard time
with this for years, and protracted battles are often fought over PG vs.
PG-13 vs. R ratings. A film getting an R rating can doom its being playable
in many venues. The problem will be much worse with television, given the
much larger number of shows, types of shows, and the rapid turnover of
programming. Who is going to make these decisions? I wasn't being
facetious in a recent digest when I asked if "Road Runner" cartoons will be
considered too violent--or the evening news. Is the next step to try label
programs as anti-family if they show unmarried persons kissing too
passionately? Or if they mention abortion? Or discuss a political party the
parents vote against?
Unlike the online universe with its vast number of potential content
providers, the universe of available television production funding sources
is comparatively small, even when cable and pay channels are considered.
There is a general belief in the television industry, which I suspect is
justified, that due to the relatively small number of major advertisers who
support television programming and production, there will be boycott efforts
and related attacks against advertisers who support or buy time on shows
classified as "bad" by whatever criteria one group or another cares to use.
This has the effect of reducing the choices for everyone, since advertisers
tend to shy away from *any* controversy. They'll be concerned about being
labeled as Anti-Whatever for buying time on a show tagged as "violent",
regardless of the real content. Would a film like "Schindler's List" make
it to an airing on television via this test?
Advertisers may also feel that they shouldn't spend their money on
programming that can't reach the maximum potential number of
viewers--fearing that parents will just leave "V-blocking" mode always
enabled so that they don't have to bother judging the merits of individual
programs and films. This could make being tagged as a "V" program pretty
much the kiss of death with many (most?) advertisers.
And of course there's always the problem that by labeling something as
forbidden, you make it even more attractive to children--who most likely
will be much more adept at handling the controls of the V-Chip sets than
their parents will!
Parents rightly are concerned about controlling what their children watch on
television--though most of the same arguments regarding the purported
negative impacts of television were made in the past regarding radio, comic
books, 50's & 60's rock 'n' roll, jazz, and even classic literature.
However, many persons feel that the V-Chip concept is an attempt at coming
up with an overly "simple" solution to a complex problem, a "solution" which
in this case would have significant negative impacts and would in effect
result in the censoring (through non-production and non-airing) of a wide
variety of programming (some of high quality and some not) that adults would
wish to view.
--Lauren--
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Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 20:31:50 -0700
From: Phil Agre <pagre@weber.ucsd.edu>
Subject: tracking parolees
From a privacy perspective, many of the most worrisome new technologies are
emerging from projects to "convert" defense technologies to civilian use.
Many of these cases provide grounds for worry that we might be militarizing
civilian life. An example of this process is found in the following
article:
Ed Mendel, SD firm seeks a body "bug" to track parolees, San Diego
Union-Tribune, 1 May 1995, pages A1, A10.
This article reports work by a San Diego area firm, Science Applications
International Corp (SAIC) to produce a tracking device that can be fastened
to the body of a parolee. The article opens as follows:
A convenience store is robbed. Were any parolees present?
A sex offender stops at a schoolyard. Can authorities be alerted?
The article rapidly surveys the technical arguments, cites civil liberties
concerns, and closes with an endorsement of such systems by Newt Gingrich.
How can we reason about this? It's easy to get on a slippery slope. Given
the choice between keeping someone in jail for an extra year and putting
them on the street with a tracking device, the latter option seems like less
of an invasion of privacy -- not to mention cheaper. But, beyond parolees,
what is the class of people for whom it is reasonable to prescribe automatic
tracking?
* probationers? they're mentioned in the article
* deadbeat dads?
* deadbeat dads who have been caught skipping out on their payments?
* other debtors?
* people who are temporarily in the country on "guest worker" programs?
(in the US these people are known as "illegal aliens")
* sex offenders who have served their terms?
* children whose parents are worried that they might be kidnapped?
* children whose custodial parent has reason to believe that they might
be kidnapped by the non-custodial parent?
* children whose parents are concerned that they might run away?
* children who have run away repeatedly?
* gang members?
* people who have not been convicted of crimes but who have been served
with restraining orders keeping them away from someone's residence or
workplace?
* people who have repeatedly violated such orders, or who have a history
of violence?
You can probably extend this list. I would honestly like to know how many
people in the United States fall under each of the descriptions I have just
offered. Then we can easily total up the percentage of the population that
would be automatically tracked if various criteria were adopted. The answer
might be scary.
But to speak of "tracking" greatly underestimates the capabilities of these
systems. If the tracking device is coupled with a cheap communications
device such as a pager then the person being tracked can be submitted to
an arbitrarily complicated control regime. For example, the person might
be restricted to a certain schedule (at work during certain hours and home
during all other hours, following commuting routes back and forth), and a
protocol might be established to negotiate permission to deviate from the
schedule. This negotiation might be similar to the clearing of a credit
card in a store. American Express has an elaborate expert system for this
purpose, and we might imagine a similar scheme for people whose movements
are restricted. Such schemes would probably be framed in humane terms.
For example, the Union-Tribune article says:
Backers ... say the option of tracking some parolees and probationers
could provide more protection for the public, help cut prison costs
and carefully control offenders as they learn work habits and make
other social adjustments needed for a productive life.
What habits and other social adjustments do *you* need for a productive
life?
Phil Agre, UCSD
[ And of course, the application of such systems
might be promoted as "voluntary"--meaning that the
person involved would be given the "choice" of
either entering the control regime or of spending
time in jail, not coming into the country, etc.
But are such choices truly voluntary, or are they
actually highly coercive situations where little
or no voluntary choice is actually involved?
-- MODERATOR ]
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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 95 11:23:07 EDT
From: denning@cs.cosc.georgetown.edu (Dorothy Denning)
Subject: INTERNATIONAL CRYPTOGRAPHY INSTITUTE 1995: GLOBAL CHALLENGES
INTERNATIONAL CRYPTOGRAPHY INSTITUTE 1995: GLOBAL CHALLENGES
September 21-22, 1995
Washington, DC
Presented by
The National Intellectual Property Law Institute
The International Cryptography Institute will address the cryptography
challenges associated with meeting the information protection needs of
users and the law enforcement and national security needs of nations.
Topics to be covered include national and international cryptography
policies and regulations, international requirements and approaches,
commercial cryptography, privacy and trust, key escrow encryption,
business requirements, law enforcement requirements, and the use of
cryptography with electronic payments.
Program
September 21
8:30-9:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
James Chandler, President, National Intellectual Property Law Institute
Dorothy E. Denning, Chair of Program
David Kahn, Visiting Historian, National Security Agency, U.S.
9:00-9:40
Cryptography in Business
M. Blake Greenlee, U.S.
9:40-10:20
Commercial Use of Cryptography
Nick Mansfield, Shell International, The Netherlands
10:20-10:50 Break
10:50-11:20
Computer Industry Position on Privacy and Trust in an Information Society
Yves Le Roux, Digital Equipment Corporation, France
11:20-12:00
The International Cryptography Experiment and Worldwide Cryptographic
Products Survey
David Balenson, Trusted Information Systems, Inc., U.S.
12:00-12:30
Export Controls on Encryption Software
Ira Rubenstein, Microsoft Corp., U.S.
12:30-2:00 Lunch With Keynote
Louis J. Freeh, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
2:00-3:00
Cryptography and the Information Society: Recent Developments in the
European Union
David J. Gould, Cabinet Office, U.K.
3:00-3:30
Encryption Policy and Technology in Japan
Mitsuru Iwamura, The Bank of Japan, Japan
3:30-3:50 Break
3:50-4:30
Towards an Australian Policy on Encryption
Peter Ford, Attorney General's Department, Australia
4:30-5:30
International Regulation of Cryptography: An Update
James Chandler, National Intellectual Property Law Institute, U.S.
5:30-6:30 Reception
September 22
8:30-9:20
U.S. Government Cryptography Policy
Michael R. Nelson, Office of Science and Technology Policy, U.S.
Ronald D. Lee, National Security Agency, U.S.
9:20-10:10
Law Enforcement Requirements for Encryption
William E. Baugh, Jr., Edward L. Allen, Michael D. Gilmore,
Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S.
10:10-10:40 Break
10:40-11:20
International Key Escrow Encryption
Dorothy E. Denning, Georgetown University, U.S.
11:20-12:00
Transnational Key Escrow
Henry H. Perritt, Jr., Villanova University School of Law, U.S.
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00
Commercial and International Key Escrow
Stewart A. Baker, Steptoe & Johnson, U.S., moderator
Stephen T. Walker, Trusted Information Systems, Inc., U.S.
Frank Sudia, Bankers Trust Company, U.S.
Carmi Gressel and Itai Dror, Fortress U & T Ltd., Israel
3:00-3:20 Break
3:20-4:00
Billing and Paying Over the Internet
Dan Schutzer, Citibank, U.S.
4:00-4:40
Digital Cash
Ernest F. Brickell, Bankers Trust Company, U.S.
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ICI '95 will be held at the National Intellectual Property Law Institute,
1815 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, DC, third floor.
Registration is $695 before September 1 and $795 thereafter ($395/$495
for U.S. Government). Payment includes all conference materials, two
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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 21:35:34 -0700
From: hal@murren.ai.mit.edu (Hal Abelson)
Subject: Sixth Conference on Comupters, Freedom, and Privacy
-- Call for Papers
***Please redistribute***
Call for Participation (June 27, 1995)
SIXTH CONFERENCE ON COMPUTERS, FREEDOM, AND PRIVACY
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
March 27-30, 1996
The sixth annual Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP96)
will be held in Cambridge, MA, on March 27-30, 1996. The conference
is hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and sponsored
by the Association for Computing Machinery and the World Wide Web
Consortium. Cooperating organizations include the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, Privacy International, the Center for Democracy and
Technology, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and the Harvard
University Institute for Law, Information, and Technology.
CFP96 is the sixth in a series of annual conferences designed to bring
together experts and advocates from the fields of computer science,
law, business, public policy, law enforcement, library science, and
government to explore how information technologies are affecting
freedom and privacy.
Since the first CFP conference in 1991, these concerns have evolved
from the preoccupations of a few specialists to major, controversial
issues of public policy. Topics to be addressed at CFP96 include:
- regulation of content on computer networks
- intellectual property considerations of digital libraries and
electronic communications media
- enhanced access to public government information
- control of cryptographic technology
- illegal activity in cyberspace and challenges for law enforcement
- privacy implications of national/personal identification systems
- standards for transborder data flow and data protection
- proper secondary uses of information in government and electronic
commerce
- new roles for libraries regarding information access and networking.
- liability of system operators and network access providers
CFP offers a much-needed neutral ground where people from widely
different backgrounds and positions can learn from one another other.
Presentations at CFP traditionally take the form of interactive panels
and discussions, rather than formal papers. The CFP96 Program
Committee is currently soliciting proposals for presentations, and we
invite your suggestions. We especially invite proposals that place
issues in an international context and involve participants from
different countries.
Proposals may be for individual talks, panel discussions, debates, or
other events in appropriate formats. (We welcome ideas for "other
events".) Each proposal should be accompanied by a one-page statement
describing the topic and format. Descriptions of multi-person
presentations should include a list of proposed participants and
session chair. Proposals should be sent by email to
cfp96@mit.edu
Proposals should be submitted as soon as possible to allow thorough
consideration for inclusion in the formal program. The deadline for
submissions is 1 September 1995.
For more information on CFP96, consult the conference web page at
web.mit.edu/cfp96
or send email with a blank subject line and blank body to
cfp96-info@mit.edu.
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Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 17:24:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: RAKEROYD@csunet.ctstateu.edu
Subject: National Privacy & Public Policy Symposium
THE CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION FOR OPEN GOVERNMENT
is Sponsoring a
NATIONAL PRIVACY AND PUBLIC POLICY SYMPOSIUM
November 3-4, 1995
Hartford, Connecticut
COME JOIN US--BE A PART OF HISTORY IN THE MAKING!
What and When
The National Privacy and Public Policy Symposium will for the first
time bring together experts from a broad range of professions to
discuss and actually define what privacy is and is not. It will be
held on November 3-4, 1995 at the Aetna Life and Casualty Company's
Conference Center and Home Office in Hartford, Connecticut. Only 250
seats will be available to the general public. So reserve the dates.
Better yet, register now and guarantee your place at this unique
event.
The Program
The symposium will consist of plenary sessions, focused panels and
informal gatherings. The symposium will be led by Claire L. Gaudiani,
President of Connecticut College. Dr. Gaudiani has an expertise in
public policy development, a knowledge of the concepts of privacy and
the facility to lead a diverse group of exceptionally capable people
in a discourse that policy-makers and the public can readily
comprehend. Professor Alan Westin of Columbia University, who wrote
the seminal article on modern concepts of privacy in America, will
present a social and legal history of privacy. Professor Westin's
history, along with individual panel papers and the proceedings of the
symposium, will be published. Vice President Albert Gore and FBI
Director Louis Freeh have been invited as luncheon and dinner
speakers. In addition, an internationally prominent faculty will focus
on key privacy issues in bio-technology and medicine, business, the
economics of information (information as an asset), government
information practices and freedom of information, information and
communications technologies, journalism, law (constitutional,
criminal, intellectual property and tort) and national security and
law enforcement.
The Organizers
The Connecticut Foundation for Open Government (CFOG) is a tax-exempt,
non-profit corporation established to increase public awareness and
understanding of the benefits and importance of open government. Its
board of directors is composed of leaders from business, education,
government and the news media.
What You Can Do
If you would like more information about the National Privacy and
Public Policy Symposium, or would like to pre-register, fill out and
return the Pre-registration Form. Registration by the general public
is limited and will be accepted on a first-come basis.
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Pre-registration Form
Send To: National Privacy & Public Policy Symposium
18-20 Trinity Street
Hartford, Connecticut 06106
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(Name) (Mailing Address)
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(Title) (City, State, Zip Code)
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(Organization) (Telephone and Fax Numbers)
Check the Appropriate Box
[ ] Please register me for the symposium; payment is enclosed; make
checks payable to CFOG.*
[ ] Please send me further information about the symposium.
[ ] I cannot attend, but would like to obtain symposium publications
and/or tapes recordings.
*The registration fee is $350 (U.S.) and must be enclosed with this
form to confirm your registration. The fee covers attendance at the
symposium, all printed publications and the cost of two breakfasts,
one lunch and one reception (cash bar) and dinner. Full refunds will
be made for cancellations received before October 25, 1995. A service
charge of $50 (U.S.) will be assessed for any cancellation made
between October 25, 1995 and November 2, 1995. No refunds can be made
thereafter.
The Aetna Conference Center has a number of comfortable and convenient
rooms available at reasonable rates. If you are interested in booking
a room at the conference center, please call Pam Sakow at (203)
236-6034.
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