The New Frontiers of Privacy Harm

January 17, 2014 9:00 am to 5:30 pm

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What harms are privacy laws designed to prevent? How are people injured when corporations, governments, or other individuals collect, disclose, or use information about them in ways that defy expectations, prior agreements, formal rules, or settled norms? How has technology changed the nature of privacy harm?

These questions loom large in debates over privacy law. Often, they are answered skeptically. The President of the United States justifies massive NSA surveillance programs by arguing that non-content surveillance is not very harmful. Advertisers resist calls for aggressive forms of Do Not Track by arguing that the way they track online behavior creates little risk of harm. Judges dismiss lawsuits brought by users suing services that suffer massive data breaches, for lack of harm.

Meanwhile, many privacy law scholars and advocates do not speak consistently, if they speak at all, about privacy harm. Some prefer to talk about "problems" or "conflicts" not harms. Others point primarily to abstract, societal harms such as chilling effects or harms to dignity or individual autonomy. Many of these people have tried to move the conversation away from harm and what they see as crabbed, tort-centric approaches to privacy protection.

It is time to revisit old conversations about harm. New practices and technologies raise new threats of harm. The fear of Big Data techniques (for example in the public debate over the pregnancy prediction program of the retailer Target) have inspired new theories of harm. Economists and computer scientists have developed new ways of measuring privacy harm. Regulators have adopted new ways of talking about harm.

Join the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship on Friday, January 17, 2014, from 9:00 AM - 4:15 PM as we venture into the New Frontiers of Privacy Harm. We will assemble thought leaders and top practitioners and regulators for a diverse and rich set of conversations about privacy harm.

Welcome and Opening Remarks	9:00am - 9:15am
Paul Ohm Associate Professor of Law University of Colorado Phil Weiser Dean University of Colorado Law School Executive Director Silicon Flatirons Center
Panel One: Is Government Surveillance Harmful?	9:15am - 10:45am
Moderator Paul Ohm Associate Professor of Law University of Colorado Presenters Susan Freiwald Professor University of San Francisco School of Law Omer Tene Vice President of Research and Education IAPP Vice Dean College of Management School of Law, Rishon Le Zion, Israel Discussants Bryan Cunningham Principal Bryan Cunningham Law Todd Hinnen Partner Perkins Coie Ben Wizner Director ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project
Break	10:45am - 11:00am
Panel Two: Is Commercial Tracking Harmful?	11:00am - 12:15pm
Moderator Scott Peppet Professor of Law University of Colorado Presenter Julia Angwin Journalist and Author Discussants Edward Felten Director Center for Information Technology Policy Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs Princeton University Fran Maier Founder and Chair of the Board TRUSTe
Lunch	12:15pm - 1:00pm
Fireside Chat	1:00pm - 1:40pm
Julie Brill Commissioner Federal Trade Commission David Medine Chairman Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
Panel Three: Measuring Harm and the Risk of Harm	1:45pm - 3:00pm
Moderator Meg Ambrose Assistant Professor, Communication, Culture, and Technology (CCT) Georgetown University Presenters Ryan Calo Assistant Professor of Law University of Washington Deven McGraw Director of the Health Privacy Project Center for Democracy and Technology Christopher Wolf Partner Hogan Lovells Discussant Adam Thierer Senior Research Fellow Mercatus Center George Mason University
Break	3:00pm - 3:15pm
Panel Four: Tailoring Solutions to Privacy Harm Through Regulation, Architecture, and Self-Regulation	3:15pm - 4:30pm
Moderator Harry Surden Associate Professor of Law University of Colorado Presenter Woodrow Hartzog Assistant Professor Cumberland School of Law Samford University Discussants Alvaro Bedoya Chief Counsel, Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law United States Senate Michael Hintze Chief Privacy Counsel and Assistant General Counsel Microsoft Corporation Rob Sherman Manager of Privacy and Public Policy Facebook Ashkan Soltani Independent Researcher and Consultant Soltani LLC David Zetoony Partner Bryan Cave LLP
Reception Sponsored by Palantir	4:30pm - 5:30pm

Location:

Wolf Law Building, Room 101

2450 Kittredge Loop

Boulder, CO

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The New Frontiers of Privacy Harm

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