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 20th annual ACM Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference converges for the first time ever in Silicon Valley.
CFP 2010. June 15-18, 2010, in San Jose California and cyberspace.
Please save the date — and pass the word. CFP has spent the last ten years describing itself as “the best conference you’ve never heard of.” We’d much rather be “the best conference everybody’s talking about!”
We’re still discussing potential themes and speakers for CFP 2010. If you’ve got ideas, or would like to help with the planning, please share them in the comments. Once we nail down the them, we’ll get the official call for participation out … stay tuned, on our blog and web site!
Jon Pincus and Dorothy Clancy, CFP 2010 co-chairs
A few of the themes we’re considering for CFP this year and next: “Rebooting computers, freedom, and privacy”, “The transparent citizen”; “Good and evil 2.0″; and “Networks within networks”. Thoughts about these, or other suggestions?
The transparent citizen theme sounds very promising.
i think the whole topic of location becoming more and more accessible (through APIs and because people have mobile devices they carry with them all of them time) deserves a lot of attention. i’d even be interested to organize a session/track around that topic, because this is something we have worked on quite a bit.
Privacy and the smart grid is what i would be eager to talk about!
I want to talk about mobile phone geo-location data and why this unravels most everything we know about secrets when analytics are applied to this big data set (600B transactions a day). More here: http://jeffjonas.typepad.com/jeff_jonas/2009/08/your-movements-speak-for-themselves-spacetime-travel-data-is-analytic-superfood.html
I think the 2010 CFP theme:
COMPUTERS FREEDOM AND PRIVACY IN THE NETWORKED SOCIETY
– the good the bad and the ugly of the always-connected world
is just right. It will help us focus on the next step – the call for participation!
Thanks all for the feedback! One of the things we discussed about the theme of “COMPUTERS FREEDOM AND PRIVACY IN THE NETWORKED SOCIETY” is that ‘networks’ is intentionally broad enough to include mobile devices as well as other kinds of networks …
Yeah! great that you are coming to Silicon Valley.
Consciousness is raising about privacy in the networked world but many of the platforms have weak tools to support users.
This edition of CFP might be a great opportunity to “unconference” parts of the conference as in support deep dialogue on timely critical issues that go beyond “experts” on panels to talking “out” to an audience but really engaging everyone and dealing with the challenges.
I regularly work with professional technical communities most prominently the identity community working on the open standards for portable personal identity online along with data sharing at the Internet Identity Workshops – http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com
You can read more on unconference.net
Please don’t hesitated to contact me,
I would like to talk about the need to have and use privacy tools that are not overtly anonymous. Being seen using privacy tools can directly lead to second class access to information or services.
Things have evolved a long way since the old Cypherpunk remailer days. The need for anonymity goes way beyond the desire to be anonymous.
I would very much like to look at the concept of trust and how our attitudes towards risks are shaping the way we come to think about privacy and security.
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Very much looking forward to the conference and will help spread the word.
Perhaps this wouldn’t be a a theme, but a conference track on the issues surrounding Gov 2.0 and government transparency would be a very interesting track (and Carl Malamud of Resource.Org a great speaker).
I’ve just discovered your conference via Bruce Sterling’s work on WIRED and would love to speak and/or be involved in some way. I’m VP of Social Media at Porter Novelli (PR firm in NYC) and fascinated by how emerging technologies like augmented reality will converge with privacy issues and affect culture at large (I’m currently finalizing an article for iMedia about AR that should be up in a few weeks). I’m also the author of, Tactical Transparency: How Leaders Can Levearge Social Media To Maximize Value and Build Their Brand (co-authored with Shel Holtz).
All that said, I don’t mean to pitch myself and my book but to provide a background as I’d love to speak or put together a panel on the nature of privacy online (both for the Internet and the Outernet) and discuss how things like OpenID or other measures could be utilized by the general public to set standards for privacy. As Augmented Reality (combined with facial recognition technology) would also allow people to discover information about others without their permission, more proactice measures than simple online privacy measures would have to be put into place. Plus the commercial aspect of utilizing AR to literally keep fans of certain products from seeing competitors brings up copyright issues that could also be discussed.
I’m moderating a panel at Web 2.0 Expo about AR and would be happy to mention the conference if appropriate. Very excited to find out about your event and I look forward to spreading the word/getting involved if psosible.
So, i’m going to make project ineto.org – it’s like a country, but in internet, with citizens, and it’s own currency. So that’s why i’m interesting to participate in this conference. Now i’m owner of social networking site with more then 220k users.
I would like to do a careful review of the psychological effects of privacy and the psychological effects of loosing it. I am currently working on such an article. But in any case, I feel that we need to go back to a clearer understanding of what it is that we have to loose by giving up privacy or standing by quietly while the expectation of privacy is eroded. Some speaker who can trace the erosion of the “expectation of privacy” from its legal inception to current efforts and events which eliminate it little-by-little, would also make a very good contribution to the conference.
I think the focus on smartphones and privacy is right on. I’ve recently
Here’s a bit I wrote about my own secure, privacy-oriented smartphone project built on Android:
“While mobile phones have been heralded as a powerful new tool for political activists, human rights advocates and public health initiatives around the globe, they are a step backwards when it comes to personal liberty, anonymity and safety. Google Android’s open-source mobile telephony platform provides a foundation on which a new type of phone that cloaks its user and their data, both on the device itself and as it communicates around the world.”
http://openideals.com/guardian/
I’d love to talk, share, hack and more at CFP 2010
The 2010 CFP theme: “Computers, Freedom, and Privacy in the Networked Society” reminded me of Manuel Castells, who was one of the originators of the notion and name “Networked Society” Castells might be a great Keynote Speaker. I am told that he is delightful. The last I heard, he teaches at the Annenberg School at USC, not so far away. Besides he is Hispanic (from Spain) and would set a nice note of inclusion. His field is communications, so it is possible/probable that he has never been part of CFP before. If you have not read his books, check him out on the web – videos are there too.
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