Stanford Center for Internet and Society

This presentation will feature live journeys into online virtual worlds where ad hoc property and civil rules of conduct are emerging. From avatar citizens pilfering hairstyles and ending up in a moot court to communities and enterprises utilizing franchising and choardic structures, this fascinating corner of the net illustrates
the concept that in Cyberspace, the code is the community.Bruce Damer is a founding director of the Contact Consortium, a key forum and standards body for virtual worlds on the Internet. He is author of Avatars, Addison Wesley Longman (1997) and a featured speaker on social issues in avatar Cyberspace at conferences such as ACM CHI, CSCW, SIGGRAPH, MediARTech, the American Association of Anthropologists and other venues.

Del Torto will be discussing human rights, encryption technologies, and his recent work in Guatemala. This discussion will cover some of the basic issues: international treaties (proposed and existing), UCITA, US crypto export controls and other US initiatives and the work of the CRF in Guatemala as examples of the hard questions at the intersection of human rights work and controls on cryptography.
Dave Del Torto is the founder & executive director of the CryptoRights Foundation (CRF), Dave has worked in the cryptography industry as a founding employee of PGP Inc, principal crypto consultant at Network Associates, chief security officer at MEconomy, Inc and director of technology at Deloitte & Touche's Security Services division. He leads the CRF's international security efforts for human rights workers and is building the CRF into a global human rights technical security service organization.

The aim of this workshop is to develop a way to speak about the effect of these changes on the environment of the Internet more generally. What are the costs of weakening the commitment to end-to-end? And are those costs outweighed by the benefits of these new services? What principle should guide developers and policy makers in evaluating the trade-offs that these new applications might present?

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