Keynote Abstract

Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada

Keynote:

When Dr. Ann Cavoukian first coined the term "Privacy by Design" in the 1990s, she envisioned that technology could be enlisted in the protection of privacy, not only its encroachment. She believed that privacy was far more likely to be protected if it was embedded into technology from the outset - built directly into the architecture. Delivered through Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs), Dr. Cavoukian is now extending this to "PETS Plus" by combining PETs with a positive-sum (not zero-sum) paradigm, enabling both privacy and whatever functionality a technology was designed to perform. Viewing privacy vs. security as a false dichotomy, Dr. Cavoukian will provide numerous examples to demonstrate the viability of taking a PETs Plus approach.

Dr. Cavoukian will outline the Privacy by Design trilogy which can be applied across all levels, to specific technologies, to organizational practices in which ICTs are embedded, and to entire information architectures, including Web 2.0 ecosystems.

Come hear Dr. Cavoukian explain how PETs Plus can actually be transformative in nature - transforming your privacy problems into privacy solutions. Come hear why the future of privacy on the Internet may lie in Privacy by Design.

Biography:

Dr. Ann Cavoukian is recognized as one of the leading privacy experts in the world. An avowed believer in the role that technology can play in protecting privacy, Dr. Cavoukian's leadership has seen her office develop a number of tools and procedures to ensure that privacy is protected in Ontario - and around the world. Dr. Cavoukian is Ontario's first Information and Privacy Commissioner to be re-appointed for an unprecedented third term. Initially appointed in 1997, her role in overseeing the operations of the freedom of information and privacy laws in Canada's most populous province has been extended to 2014. Like the Auditor General, she serves as an Officer of the Legislature, independent of the government of the day.

Noted for her seminal work on Privacy Enhancing Technologies in 1995, her mantra of "privacy by design" seeks to embed privacy into the design specifications of technology, thereby achieving the strongest protections.

Dr. Cavoukian's published works include Who Knows: Safeguarding Your Privacy in a Networked World (1997), written with Don Tapscott, and, The Privacy Payoff: How Successful Businesses Build Customer Trust (2002), written with Tyler Hamilton.

Stewart Baker, Partner, Steptoe & Johnson

Keynote:

Technological progress always brings at least some death and disaster along with its benefits, and information technology is no exception. Commercial jet travel created modern mass tourism and an international business business class; it also set the stage for the 9/11 attacks. We didn't give up jet travel after 9/11, but we did adopt measures to reduce the risk of such a disaster in the future.

The IT revolution is younger than the commercial jet revolution, and its 9/11 is still in the future. But we can see it coming. Black apps like DDOS attacks, botnets and online identity theft are growing faster than legitimate businesses, and they are achieving a scale that can threaten not just large companies but nation states as well. Current trends will not head off a major online disaster; governments and industry need to begin today to chart a different course for software, hardware, and network security. If we do not find smart and supple ways to build in security assurances, we will end up with dumb and harsh measures after a disaster.

Biography:

Stewart Baker is a Partner at the law firm of Steptoe & Johnson LLP in Washington, D.C.

From 2005 to 2009, he was the first Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Department of Homeland Security. As assistant secretary, Mr. Baker oversaw offices responsible for Department-wide policy analysis, international affairs, strategic planning, and relationships with private sector, advisory committees, and law enforcement. He was heavily involved in national security reviews of large information technology transactions and in the effort to provide visa free travel to Eastern European nations.

During 1994 and 1995, Mr. Baker served as General Counsel of the WMD Commission investigating intelligence failures prior to the Iraq war. From 1992 to 1994, Mr. Baker was General Counsel of the National Security Agency, where he led NSA and interagency efforts to reform commercial encryption and computer security law and policy.

Mr. Baker's law practice builds on his government experience, covering matters such as homeland security, international trade, cybersecurity, data protection, travel industry regulation, and foreign investment regulation.

Mr. Baker has testified before Congress on many occasions, including the September 11 commission on intelligence and has served on numerous boards and commissions, including the President's Export Council Subcommittee on Export Administration, the Industry Trade Advisory Committee on telecommunications and electronic commerce, two Defense Science Board panels on information warfare defense, and the Markle Task Force on Technology and Terrorism. He has also been an advisor to international organizations such as the International Telecommunications Union, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

David Farber, Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science and Public Policy,


Carnegie Mellon University

Biography:

Prof. Farber is Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science and Public Policy in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University holding secondary appointments in the Heinz School of Public Policy and the Engineering Public Policy Group.

He retired in 2003 as the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunication Systems at the University of Pennsylvania where he he held appointments as Professor of Business and Public Policy at the Wharton School of Business and as a Faculty Associate of the Annenberg School of Communications.

In January 17, 2000, he was appointed to be Chief Technologist at the US Federal Communications Commission while on leave from UPenn for one year ending in early June 2001. While at UPenn, he co-directed The Penn Initiative on Markets, Technology and Policy. He was also Director of the Distributed Systems Laboratory - DSL where he managed leading edge research in Ultra High Speed Networking. Research papers of the DSL are available in its electronic library.

His early academic research work was focused at creating the world's first operational Distributed Computer System -- DCS while at the ICS Department at the University of California at Irvine. After that, while with the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Delaware, he helped conceive and organize CSNet, NSFNet and the NREN.

Prior to his appointment to the FCC, he served on the US Presidential Advisory Board on Information Technology and currently is a Member of the FCC's Technological Advisory Council. This year he was appointed to the Advisory Council or the CISE Directorate of the National Science Foundation.

Prof. Farber is a Trustee of the Electronic Frontier Foundation -- the EFF. He is a Visiting Professor of the Center for Global Communications of Japan -- Glocom of the International University of Japan, a Member of the Advisory Board at the National Institute of Informatics of Japan and a Member of the Advisory Boards of both the Center for Democracy and Technology and EPIC. He is a Fellow of both the ACM and the IEEE and was the recipient of the 1995 ACM Sigcomm Award for life long contributions to the computer communications field. He was awarded in 1997 the prestigious John Scott Award for Contributions to Humanity.

He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society as well as having serving 10 years on the National Research Council's Computer Science and Telecommunications Board -- CSTB.

He was named in the 1997 edition of the UPSIDE's Elite 100, as one of the Visionaries of the field and was named in the 1999 Network World as one of the 25 most powerful people in Networking. In 2002 he was named by Business Week as one of the top 25 leaders in E-Commerce.