Tech Policy Palooza

Lollapalooza is back this year with a three-day festival under the hot Chicago August sun.

The Computer Freedom & Privacy (CFP) conference is hitting DC next week with FOUR days of hot geek on geek debating action.

Lollapalooza will feature rock, hip-hop, alt-country, house, garage, electro, punk and dancehall.

CFP will throw down with all the most kickin' tech policy genres like Net Neutrality, privacy, digital content policy, Internet governance, and cyber security.

Sleater-Kinney, Built to Spill, Kayne West, The Flaming Lips, Gnarls Barkley, The Rapture and dozens of other artists will blast Chicago's Grant Park.

Senator Patrick Leahy, Congressman Joe Barton, Stewart Baker of DHS, PFF's Jim Delong, Google's Andrew McLaughlin, and Web 1.0-gone-2.0 guy Jonah Seiger will all be waving their arms in the air like they just don't care at the L'efant Plaza Hotel. 

[Oddly, former Tsunami and Grenadine lead singer, Jenny Toomey, will be on a CFP panel and not on the Chicago stage.  (She's actually the executive director of the Future of Music coalition)].

BTW, as I think about it, Lollapalooza organizer Perry Farrell would fit right in at a CFP event.  Maybe we can get him to spin at the 463 Happy Hour on Thursday night.

After the jump, our panel picks...   

The full CFP program is here.  463 will probably be at the panels below...

Sadly, we will not be a Lollapalooza this year.  Though, if I could go, I would definitely see The Go Team!, Calexico, Of Montreal and Mates of State...

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TUESDAY:
6:00pm – 9:00pm OPENING RECEPTION at Public Citizen

WEDNESDAY:

8:45am – 9:45am    
Opening Keynote Speaker
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
   Senator Leahy, ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee has been a long-time advocate for consumers, especially on privacy and security related issues. Senator Leahy will speak on the issues of the day, including domestic surveillance, data security and privacy in general.

1:00pm – 2:00pm      
CONCURRENT SESSIONS:

CALEA
As the CALEA compliance clock ticks, and as the U.S. Court of Appeals considers a broad based challenge to the FCC’s extension of CALEA wiretapping design mandate to the Internet, proponents and opponents are both confident that they will win. This round table panel of government, industry, and public interest experts will first consider the current status of the CALEA debate, and then asks what CALEA for the Internet would look like in the real world.

Organizer:
John Morris, CDT

Future of Fair Use
The doctrine of fair use ensures that the public is entitled to use portions of copyrighted works for purposes of education and commentary. In a wired world, the ease of distributing digital content has both created new opportunities for fair use and provoked the reaction of companies wishing to prohibit use of their intellectual property online. In many cases, overzealous protection of copyrights has led to attacks on criticism, parody, and other forms of protected speech. Panel participants will discuss the legal state of fair use, the future of fair use online, and the impact of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Panelists:
Jeffrey Cunard, Managing Partner, Debevoise and Plimpton LLP, Washington, DC Office
Patricia Aufderheide, Professor, American University School of Communications, Director, Center for Social Media
Jim DeLong, Fellow, The Progress and Freedom Foundation, Director, Center for Study of Digital Property
Marjorie Heins, Founder, Free Expression Policy Project, Brennan Center; Fellow, Brennan Center for Justice Democracy Program
Rebecca Tushnet , Professor, Georgetown University Law School

Organizer:
Paul Levy, Public Citizen
2:15pm – 3:30pm      
PLENARY SESSION:
NHIN - Healthcare & Privacy

    In April, 2004 President Bush signed an Executive Order calling for most Americans to have electronic health records (EHRs) within 10 years. The order created a new Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and also mandated the updating of the nation's medical information systems and the development of a National Health Information Network (NHIN) where patients' digitized medical records would be placed. The NHIN would be accessible to hospitals, insurors, doctors, and unspecified others. Such a network brings patient privacy, security, and confidentiality issues into sharp relief. This panel will look at these concerns and how they will or should be addressed by the NHIN's technical structure and operating policies.

    Panelists:
    William Braithwaite, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, ehealth Initiative
    Maya Bernstein, Privacy Advocate, US Department of Health and Human Services
    Pam Dixon
    Robert Gellman, Privacy and Information Policy Consultant, Washington, DC

    Organizer:
    Linda Ackerman

8:30am – 9:00am      
PLENARY SESSION:
RFID Debate
    Panelists:
    Rob Atkinson, President, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
    Katherine Albrecht

    Organizer:
    Linda Ackerman

THURSDAY

9:00am – 9:45am      Keynote Speaker
Lydia Parnes, Director, Federal Trade Commission,
Bureau of Consumer Protection
As head of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, Director Parnes leads the agency’s work to protect consumers from spam, phishing, and spyware. Director Parnes will discuss the Commission’s agenda on these and other issues.

12:30pm – 1:15pm      
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Spyware
Funding for spam and adware/spyware distribution often flows through a complex chain of affiliate programs and advertising representatives. This session will look at the role that affiliate and advertising programs play in the spam and adware/spyware world. This session will also discuss the legal, ethical and branding consequences that advertisers and affiliate program sponsors face for the spam and adware/spyware distribution their money directly or indirectly funds.

Panelists:
Adam Lichstein, WhenU
Paul Kurtz, CSIA
Ari Schwartz, CDT
Jeff Williams, Microsoft

Moderator:
Eric Goldman, Marquette University Law School

International Advocacy
The United Nations is creating a new platform for the discussion of global Internet policy called the "Internet Governance Forum" (IGF). IGF could be important for public interest advocates. Privacy, copyright, freedom of expression on the Internet, Net Neutrality are all cross-cutting issues that appear in a variety of international venues. Will the IGF advance public interest advocacy or is it a toothless talk shop that will waste resources and further fragment everyone's attention? This panel bringw together the international diplomats who are managing the new IGF with believers in and critics of its potential.

Panelists:
Milton L. Mueller , Syracuse University School of Information Studies
Markus Kummer, Internet Governance Forum
Michael Nelson, Internet Society and Director of Internet Technology and Strategy, IBM
Derrick Cogburn, Syracuse University School of Information Studies

2:15pm – 3:45pm      
PLENARY SESSION:
Net Neutrality

At the heart of the net neutrality debate is whether the Internet, the Web, and associated technologies will continue to thrive as an open platform for innovation and free expression and what policies, if any, are necessary to ensure that they will. Our panelists will focus their discussion on several key scenarios of Internet usage in order to understand the most critical features that allow the Internet to remain open today and how the evolution of networks, technologies, and business models will impact the openness of the Internet tomorrow. The panelists will use scenarios involving web-based commerce, cached news delivery, voice over IP, and fully decentralized multimedia services to frame the discussion. The format for the plenary session is described below, but due to the ever-changing nature and uncertain future of the net neutrality issue, the precise plan for the program may be amended over the coming months.

    Organizer:
    Leslie Harris, CDT

FRIDAY

9:00am – 10:15am      
PLENARY SESSION:
China Syndrome

China has begun to exert extraordinary control over the Internet’s most critical attributes—openness and user empowerment—requiring many American companies to either conform to censorship mandates or pull their business from the Chinese market. This plenary panel will bring together human rights advocates, experts in Internet law and policy and corporate social responsibility, and representatives of Internet companies doing business in China to address the difficult question of what the United States government and Internet companies should do in response to unprecedented Internet censorship and surveillance in China and other repressive regimes. The panel is intended to move the dialogue past blame and recrimination and toward solutions.

    Panelists:
    Lance Cottrell, Founder, President and Chief Scientist, Anonymizer, Inc.
    Sharon Hom, Executive Director, Human Rights In China
    Eric Biel, Deputy Washington Director and Senior Counsel, Human Rights First
    Larry Hinman, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Values Institute, University of San Diego
    Fred Tipson, Microsoft
    Andrew McLaughlin, Senior Policy Counsel, Google

    Organizer:
    Leslie Harris, CDT

11:45am – 1:15pm      
Luncheon Keynote Speaker
David Cavicke, General Counsel, House Committee on Energy and Commerce

As Counsel for the House Energy and Commerce Committee, David has had a hand in crafting legislation on issues related to computer security and privacy, including the anti-spyware bill that passed the House of Representatives, and a bill to address data breaches. David will play a key role in any legislative efforts on privacy and other issues that are top-of-mind for the CFP community. David will talk about these issues, and the Committee process, during his luncheon talk.

1:30pm – 2:30pm      
CONCURRENT SESSIONS:

Yacht Rock
The Internet has for years been trumpeted as a way for independent artists to find an audience on their own terms, but many have found that simply building a Web site is not enough. In this session, filmmakers, musicians and experts talk about the role that online word-of-mouth has played in their careers.

The Internet has proven to be a powerful way for independent musicians and filmmakers to develop an audience through word of mouth.

But countless bedroom poets have found that it's usually not enough to simply set up a Web site and expect the world to appreciate their genius: More than 10 years after the Internet hit the mainstream, there is no established roadmap for effective promotion.

While record labels try to stamp out file sharing, musicians like DJ Danger Mouse and the Arctic Monkeys have found that it has furthered their careers. Filmmakers like JD Ryznar give away their work for free to build their resumes, while download services like eMusic try to encourage their listeners to discover music they wouldn't hear normally.

In this panel, musicians, filmmakers and experts will talk about their own experiences in finding an audience online, and whether online measures of success (downloads) can lead to traditional measures of success (paychecks).

Panelists:
Andrew Baron, Founder and producer of the internet show, "Rocketboom" and adjunct graduate professor at Parsons School of Design in NYC.
Jenny Toomey, Executive Director, Future of Music Coalition
JD Ryznar, writer, director, and star of the internet series "Yacht Rock"
Andy Sullivan, reporter for Reuters News Service

Organizer:
Andy Sullivan, Reuters

WSIS
Among the issues of debate at the World Summit on the Information Society held in Tunisia in 2005 was the question of developing countries’ relationship to the Internet: what role should those countries have in shaping the future of the Internet and what role could the Internet have in the economic and democratic development of those countries? While much of the WSIS debate focused on the desire of some developing countries to exercise greater control over the DNS and ICANN, more relevant for developing countries may be the lack of an enabling environment for development of the Internet at the national level and barriers to the ability of individuals to engage in online commerce and expressive activity.

If the Internet is to fulfill its potential as a tool of democratization and human development, it must be widely accessible and affordable. This panel would examine the sources of the digital divide, look at the status of Internet deployment and adoption in developing countries, and discuss the challenges emerging economies face.

Panelists:
William Drake, President, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility; and Director, Project on the Information Revolution and Global Governance, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
Samia Melhem, Senior Operations Officer, InfoDev, Global Information and Communication Technologies Division World Bank

Moderator:
Paula Bruening, Staff Counsel, Center for Democracy & Technology

2:45pm – 4:00pm      
PLENARY SESSION: Digital Rights Management

    The discovery in late 2005 of security, privacy, and consumer protection issues in digital rights management (DRM) software loaded onto millions of Sony BMG compact discs outraged many consumers and put the DRM debate front-and-center. Some view DRM technologies as necessary to the continued growth of a vibrant online marketplace, while others have criticized them as futile or detrimental to consumer interests and the general balance of copyright law. This panel will start by discussing the extent to which the Sony BMG incident offers general lessons concerning the practical, privacy and security, and legal risks associated with DRM.

    Is it possible to design DRM that does not limit fair use, create security risks, or invade music fans' privacy? Is DRM even necessary? What have been the effects so far of the DRM that has been deployed? The panel also will explore considerations relating to government involvement in DRM by, for example, requiring or selecting DRM technology. Finally, the panel will look ahead to the direction DRM seems likely to take. How are future technologies like Vista, BluRay and others going to change the DRM debate?

    Panelists:
    Susan Landau, Sun Microsystems Laboratories
    Bill Rosenblatt, DRM Watch
    Alex Halderman, Princeton
    Kurt Opshal, EFF

    Moderator:
    Rob Pegoraro, Reporter, The Washington Post

    Organizers:
    Corynne McSherry, EFF
    David Sohn, CDT

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