Stanford Law School Symposium: Securing Privacy in the Internet Age

a free symposium at stanford focusing on digital privacy and security?
wow.  i must be dreaming.  there for SURE.  any heads wanna take a road
trip?  hehe ;)

-j

http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/privacysymposium/

What legal regimes or market initiatives would best prevent the
unauthorized disclosure of private information while also promoting
business innovation?

March 13-14 2004
Stanford Law School

As individuals do more – shopping, talking, working – on-line, they
leave private information behind in databases stored on
Internet-connected servers. Companies store proprietary data on
networked servers connected to the Internet. Computer security experts
struggle to develop technology and best practices to protect this
information from unauthorized intruders or inadvertent leaks. Are
private initiatives sufficient to protect private and confidential
information, or should the law allocate the responsibility of keeping
the server secure, and if so, on whom? And will the imposition of this
legal and economic burden impede further exponential advances like those
the computer industry has made in the past decade?

The Law, Science and Technology Program (LST) and the Center for
Internet and Society (CIS) at Stanford Law School invite you to join us
at a symposium where the speakers will present papers that address the
ways in which application of various legal doctrines could induce
software vendors, hardware companies and system administrators to adopt
security-enhancing practices, report unauthorized disclosures of private
information, properly value and remedy harm flowing from privacy
breaches, while promoting vigorous competition and innovation.

The event is funded by a generous grant from the cy pres fund
established in the Supnick et al. v. Amazon.com, Inc. and Alexa
Internet, Inc. litigation. After an open call for papers produced close
to a hundred submissions, the authors were chosen by the symposium
editors. The papers will be published in the fall in a scholarly volume.

The Symposium Editors are:

    * Anupam Chander, Professor, UC Davis School of Law, Visiting
Professor Stanford Law School, Spring 2004
    * Lauren Gelman, Assistant Director, Center for Internet and
Society, Stanford Law School
    * Margaret Jane Radin, Wm. Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott
Professor of Law, Director, Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology

This Symposium is appropriate for anyone interested in developing a
legal regime that better promotes computer security than our current
one. The authors represent a wide variety of viewpoints: academics,
policy makers, economists, advocates, and legal and corporate
professionals, and we anticipate the audience will reflect this
diversity as well.

Registration is FREE if you register before March 1, 2004. All attendees
MUST register on the website. No registrations will be accepted after
March 11, 2004. After March 1, 2004, the registration fee is $250, which
must be paid by check or by cash at the registration desk on the day of
the Symposium. Checks should be written to "Stanford Law School."