Smart phones, social networking and the “internet of things” let us integrate the online world and computers more deeply into our lives. Should we have to give up our freedom and privacy in to reap the benefits of a constant connection to friends and information? How are attitudes towards freedom and privacy changing for those who have grown up so accustomed to an always-connected environment? What about those who aren’t participating because they lack access to technology and knowledge — or who simply prefer more traditional forms of connection? How do we take advantage of the power of computers to improve freedom and privacy online and off?
To address those critical questions and more, the ACM Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference converges for the first time ever in Silicon Valley, June 15-18 2010.
The 20th annual ACM Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference is pleased to announce our call for participation, soliciting proposals for sessions and topics at the conference as well as volunteers to help us organize and publicize it.
CFP is the leading policy conference exploring the impact of the Internet, computers and communications technologies on society. We focus on topics such as freedom of speech, privacy, digital rights and responsibilities, free culture and intellectual property, cybersecurity, electronic democracy, anonymity, and the future of technologies and their implications.
And every year, somewhat miraculously, a team of volunteers gets together to create an amazing program, organize the conference, and publicize it online and off. This year, we hope that you’ll join us. If you’d like to help out, please see our Help Wanted page or contact us via Twitter at @cfpconf.
If you’re interested in helping to shape the conference program, please read on for the Call for Proposals, which describes how you can suggest speakers, topics, workshops, tutorials, and panel sessions. Your suggestions welcome!
Jon Pincus and Dorothy Glancy, co-chairs
Call for Proposals
This year’s conference theme is Computers, Freedom, and Privacy in the Networked Society. We especially encourage proposals that focus on the ways different kinds of networks — social, communication, information, physical — interact with freedom and privacy. We’re also looking for proposals that take advantage of this year’s location in Silicon Valley, include a diverse set of panelists and new voices, feature multiple perspectives on challenging issues, and look to the future by exploring cutting-edge technology, legal, and policy issues. The first comment has a list of some potential topics … other suggestions very welcome!
Our page on How to submit a proposal to CFP 2010 has a description of how to use the CFP 2010 submission system to propose any of the following:
- suggestions for speakers or topics
- proposals for 90-minute sessions with three to five speakers
- half-day or full-day workshops or tutorials
- “birds of a feather” sessions and other informal events to allow exploration of additional topics
From these proposals (and discussions on the blog) the program committee assembles the final program. Don’t be surprised if your proposal undergoes some modifications; we frequently combines multiple proposals, or take a session topic and add some different speakers.
Our early-bird deadline is December 11; selected early proposals will be notified of acceptance by the end of January.
The final deadline is January 31. Notifications will be sent by March 1.
The submission process can look very intimidating, so we’ve got some suggestions and example proposals up in our how-to page. Don’t worry too much if you get some of the details wrong; and if you’ve got any questions, please ask!
If you’ve any questions — or quick suggestions of speakers and topics — please leave them as comments in this thread.
Speaking of the blog, that’s another great way to participate in Computers, Freedom, and Privacy 2010. Please check http://cfp.org/wordpress/ for the latest!
Here’s a short list of some topics we think would fit well with this year’s theme of Computers, Freedom, and Privacy in a Networked Society. This is just a starting point — if you have good ideas for topics that aren’t in this list, please leave them in the comments!
- social networks
- health care privacy (including electronic health records and medical identity theft)
- cloud computing
- network activism for freedom and privacy
- surveillance networks
- the impact of data retention and privacy breach legislation around the world
- getting beyond the “security vs. privacy” framing
- mobile phones as universal surveillance
- anonymity in a networked world
- behavioral internet targeting: advertising and political campaigning
- free culture
- ethics and computing
- media concentration and its implications
- accessibility
- high-speed internet access policy
- freedom of information
- location-aware devices and geographical discrimination
- open source
- fair information practices as a floor, not a ceiling
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Hi,
I wonder if I can submit a short paper or a long paper to this conference. I wonder also if you gonna include the proceedings of this conference in the ACM Digital Library.
Thanks!!!
I suggest you have something on the privacy issues surrounding the smart grid
Thank you for your response!
My main field of interest is “Cryptography”; and to make it more general “Computer Security”.
Are you recommending any particular topics on those?
Hello,
How many attendees are expected at the 2010 conference? What type of people will be in attendance (CSOs or…?)? Please let me know, thanks!
Virginia
Apologies for the belated reply, Virginia …
We’re expecting 300-400 attendees at the 2010 conference. It’s a real mix, including law and computer science academics, government folks, C-level folks as well as engineers and policy people from corporations, non-profits, and activists.
jon
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