--- From: "Lucas Mast" <lmastat_private> To: <declanat_private> Subject: Biometrics event Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 09:00:01 -0500 Declan-- Enjoy your travels. If you have not left yet, could you send the link below to your list? We are having an event at Cato on Biometrics Jan. 24th (11-12:30) with Dorothy Denning of Georgetown University, Visionics's Dr. Joseph Atick, Marc Rotenberg of EPIC, and John Woodward of Rand. Entitled "Eye in the Sky--and Everywhere Else" it promises to be an interesting discussion of the issues surrounding biometric technologies. Like all Cato events it is free, with lunch to follow. http://www.cato.org/events/020124pf.html Thanks, Lucas --- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 12:36:46 -0800 From: Sonia Arrison <sarrisonat_private> To: declanat_private Subject: FTC Director, Howard Beales, to keynote privacy law conference FTC Director of Consumer Protection, Howard Beales, to keynote San Francisco Conference on Controversial California Privacy Law Proposed state legislation that would impose opt-in and other regulatory requirements on the use of consumer information has become one of the hottest issues in Sacramento. The proposals could have dramatic implications for consumers and businesses in California and nationwide. Mr. Beales will present the federal government's view of regulating commercial information, followed by a panel of experts that will discuss the economic and legal perspectives of new regulation. Who: Howard Beales, Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, FTC Sonia Arrison, Director, Center for Technology Studies, Pacific Research Institute, PRI Jeffrey Eisenach, President, Progress and Freedom Foundation, PFF Peter Johnson, Columbia University Michael Turner, Information Services Executive Council When: Thursday, January 24, 2002 12 pm - luncheon 3 pm - wrap-up Where: Carnelian Room, Bank of America Building 555 California Street, 52nd Floor, San Francisco Cost: $30 RSVP required call (415) 955-6123 fax (415) 989-2411 e-mail > eventsat_private This event is being sponsored by Pacific Research Institute and The Progress & Freedom Foundation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Events: Congreso Nacional de Periodismo Digital in Huesca, Spain from Jan. 17-18 (http://www.congresoperiodismo.com) and the Second International Conference on Web-Management in Diplomacy in Malta from Feb. 1-3. (http://www.diplomacy.edu/Web/conference2/) -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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