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“Internet Privacy, Social Networks and Data Aggregation” is a free one-day conference that will include a wide range of experts in the technology, legal, computer science, information privacy fields who will focus on Internet privacy and the problems created by the intersection of social networks and the burgeoning data aggregation industry. The program will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Richard B. Ogilvie Auditorium of IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, 565 West Adams St., in Chicago
The plenary speaker will be Harvard University computer science professor Harry Lewis, whose former students include Internet entrepreneurs Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg. (Zuckerberg’s web site, “Six Degrees to Harry Lewis,” was a precursor to Facebook.)
Other speakers include privacy researcher and activist Christopher Soghoian, who has been called a “Ralph Nader for the Internet Age” because he’s exposed privacy flaws in Google, Facebook, and other companies; Carnegie Mellon University professor Jon Peha, who has served as chief technologist for the FCC and as assistant director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Justin Brookman, director for the Center for Democracy and Technology’s project on consumer privacy and former chief of the New York Attorney General’s Internet Bureau; Jay Edelson, founder and managing partner of Edelson McGuire, LLC. whose practice areas include technology law, corporate compliance issues and consumer advocacy; and IIT Chicago-Kent professors Lori B. Andrews, Henry H. Perritt, Jr., and Richard Warner.
Program is free, but registration is required. To register, please visit: www.kentlaw.edu/cisp
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