-------- Original Message -------- Subject: non-HTML version of video surveillance conference at Georgetown Law message Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 21:34:50 -0500 From: Tara Swaminatha <tms36@private> To: declan@private Declan: I sent you this earlier today with the following note: I'm a student at Georgetown University Law Center. Thought the conference below (Video Surveillance: Legal & Technological Challenges) to be held at our school this coming Tuesday might be of interest to your list members. If you think they'd find it interesting please forward it along. Many thanks in advance! Cheers, Tara M. Swaminatha 2L, Georgetown University Law Center Just remembered that you prefer non-HTML messages so here it is in text if you wouldn't mind sending it to the Politech readers. Thanks so much! Cheers, Tara Video Surveillance: Legal and Technological Challenges Featuring a keynote message from Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont Ranking Member, Senate Judiciary Committee What: "The Dawn of Micro Monitoring: Its Promise, And Its Challenges To Privacy and Security" This conference will discuss the technological development and legal regulation of video surveillance. The panel will focus on the impact of new and emerging video surveillance technologies on privacy and civil liberties. Like video surveillance, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a fast-developing technology that offers many potential benefits but will also pose challenges to privacy and civil liberties. Senator Leahy - a technophile and long a leader on privacy issues - will highlight these tradeoffs and suggest that Congress may need to address RFID usage issues after a thorough consideration by industry, law enforcement, scientists, and consumers. When: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 Conference begins at 9:30 AM Senator Leahy's keynote begins at 11:30 AM Program concludes at 12 Noon Where: Georgetown University Law Center Gewirz Building, 12th Floor Corner of 2nd and F Streets NW Washington, DC 20001 To RSVP: Register for this event or call 202.682.1611 Senator Patrick Leahy of Burlington, Vermont was elected to the United States Senate in 1974. A graduate of Saint Michael's College in Colchester(1961), he received his Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center(1964). He served for eight years as State's Attorney in Chittenden County, gaining a national reputation for his law enforcement activities which lead him to be selected as one of three outstanding prosecutors in the United States. In the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, Leahy headed the Senate's negotiations on the 2001 anti-terrorism bill, the USA PATRIOT Act. He added checks and balances to the bill to protect civil liberties, as well as provisions which he authored to triple staffing along the US-Canada border, to authorize domestic preparedness grants to states, and to facilitate the hiring of new FBI translators. Leahy, a technophile sometimes referred to as "the cybersenator" for his enthusiasm for and leadership on technology and internet issues, has championed privacy rights, copyright protections and freedom of speech on the Internet. He is a co-founder and co-chair of the Congressional Internet Caucus, and has taken the lead on several privacy issues, including Internet and medical records privacy. Leahy held Congress's first hearing in 1994 on privacy concerns relating to electronic medical records. He is the former Chairman and currently ranking Democratic member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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