[huridocs-tech] The Human Face of Privacy Technology (Ontario, 1-2 November)

The Human Face of Privacy Technology
November 1-2, 2001
Toronto, Ontario (Canada)

THEME:

Cell phone users were recently outraged when their private conversations 
were streamed live over the Internet. Digital cell phone users became 
equally stressed when the wireless encryption standard - 802.11 they had 
been using to protect their conversations was cracked. Even more 
disconcerting, places such as Guatemala see human rights workers, using 
privacy technologies to protect other civil rights groups' identities and 
the information they report on civil rights abuses, experience daily 
threats of information theft as well as kidnappings.

Within the last year those involved in developing and implementing 
technology have experienced a growing awareness of privacy risks within 
those technologies and a better understanding of privacy averse 
environments. This awareness has brought to the fore the need to further 
develop and implement technologies that are privacy protective. Parallel to 
this, around the globe, economic crime units and law enforcement agencies, 
governments, businesses and lawyers wrestle with the tools to combat the 
international specter of cyber crime, while often sidelining key privacy 
issues. The exploration of privacy and security issues is fundamental to 
understanding how the construction and implementation of privacy policies 
and technologies can be improved for the real world.

The intended audience includes technology and security experts, CIO's, 
senior technology executives, cryptographers, engineers, law enforcement, 
academics, private sector leaders, Human Rights Organizations, privacy 
experts and students.

For more information see:

<http://www.ipc.on.ca/english/pubpres/speeches/novcon01.htm>
http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/2001/isw-eighth/announcement.h 
tml>


Robert Guerra
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
rguerra@cpsr.org




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