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13th Annual Conference on Computers, Freedom & Privacy (3/5/2003)

February 27, 2003 Draft

Wednesday, April 2

7:30-8:30am Continental Breakfast
8:30-9:30am Keynote Address Bruce Schneier
9:30-10:45am Plenary Session #1 A Moment in Time Putting Computers Freedom and Privacy in Context
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00am-12:30pm Plenary Session #2 Computers Freedom and Privacy After 911
12:30 - 1:15 Box lunches and informal discussion with Journalists
1:15 -2:00pm Keynote: George Radwanski - Privacy Commissionerof Canada
2:00-3:15pm Plenary Session #3 Total Information Awareness - A Debate
3:15-3:45pm Break
3:45-4:45pm Plenary Session # 4 Role Play the Moral Maze-- Security and Freedom in A Dangerous World
4:45-6:00   Plenary Session #5 The Patriot II and Electronic Communication
7:00-9:30pm EFF Pioneer Awards
9:30pm-12:00am Birds of a Feather Sessions (BoFs)

Thursday, April 3

7:30 - 8:15am Continental Breakfast
8:15-8:45am Morning Keynote
8:45-10:15am Plenary Session #5 Human Rights and the Internet
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-Noon  The Great Firewall of China - Internet Filtering and   Free   Expression
Noon -2 Concurrent Sessions 1-5 and box lunch

Concurrent Session #1 - ENUM
Concurrent Session #2 - Authentication Online
Concurrent Session #3 - Trusted Computing
Concurrent Session #4 - Freedom and Privacy on Trial: What happens in criminal investigation and court.
Concurrent Session #5 - Special Event -Video Surveillance Tour of Manhattan by the Surveillance Camera Players

2:00-2:30 Video Surveillance Players Report on the Unblinking Eye in New York
2:30-3:45pm Plenary Session #7 Data Retention in Europe and America
3:45- 4:00 pm Break
4:00 - 5:15 Plenary Session #8 Moot Court - LICRA v. Yahoo Free Speech In A World Without Borders
5:15-6:30pm Plenary Session # 9 Terrorizing Rights: International
Cooperation and International Anti-Terrorism Policies
7:30-9:00pm 2002 Orwell Awards
9:30pm-12:00am Birds of a Feather Sessions (BoFs)

 Friday, April 4

8:- 9 am Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:15m Plenary Session #10 Auto ID: Tracking Everywhere
10:15-10:45 am Presentation of Silly Security Awards
10:45-11:15 Break
11:15am-12:15pm Plenary Session Keynote from the Right and Left Former Rep. Bob Barr and Rep  Jerry Nadler (tentative)
12:30-2:00pm Box Lunch Concurrent Sessions 6-10

Concurrent
Concurrent Session #6 - Who's Computer Is It Anyway?
Concurrent Session #7 - Technology Dumping to the Developing World
Concurrent Session #8 - Biometrics
Concurrent Session #9 - Bigger Monster Weaker Chains, The American Surveillance Society
Concurrent Session #10 - Privacy Activism 2 -- Special Event: Privacy Journal Publisher Robert Ellis Smith will lead a workshop on how to get effective results from activism locally and nationally. This is a prelude to the meeting of the National Congress of Privacy Activists on Saturday in New York City.

2:00-3:15pm Plenary Session #12 Can Free Speech Survive the New Intellectual Property Regimes- a debate
3:15-4:30pm Closing Keynote: Lawrence Lessig, Author, The Future of  Ideas and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
4:30-5:00 Closing Reception



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