[Fwd: June 2 talk - privacy and public policy]

[Dan Coutu]

I know this is short notice but I just learned about it. I think this 
may be of interest to many members. Those of you were in UEG will 
remember Wendy, who is sponsoring this lecture.

Directions:

 From Manchester and north.

Get onto Rt. 101 West, follow it through Bedford into Amherst. Watch for 
an exit sign that reads "Rt. 122 Amherst" and take that exit. Turn right 
at the end of the exit ramp. You'll pass the Police station on your 
left, continue to a traffic light. Turn right at the light and go to the 
stop sign two blocks down. Turn left at the stop sign and the library 
will be on your left about a half block down.

 From central Mass.

Head for Rt. 13 North and follow it to Milford, NH. Then get onto Rt. 
101 East. Take the next exit (Rt. 101A East). Turn right at the end of 
the exit ramp and get into the left lane. At the next traffic light turn 
left onto Rt. 122 North. Follow 122 to the next traffic light (not a 
blinking light, a real traffic light.) Go straight through the light and 
turn left at the next stop sign. Library is on your left as noted above.

 From Keene, NH.

Take 101 East to Milford. Then follow directions above for Central Mass 
beginning with the Rt. 101A East exit.

 From Nashua, NH and points East.

Take 101A West to the intersection of Rt. 122. Turn right onto 122 North 
and follow directions as noted above in the Central Mass. block starting 
with 'Follow 122 to'.

I think that covers everyone except private pilots... :-)

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: June 2 talk - privacy and public policy
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 20:59:37 -0400
From: Wendy Rannenberg <wendyrann at netscape.net>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;

Feel free to forward this to anyone who might be interested. If anyone
has questions please send me email.


Barbara Simons. professor of Technology Policy at Stanford University,
will give a presentation, Privacy and Public Policy at the Amherst Town
Library on June 3rd from 6:30 to 8:30PM. This will be an interactive
discussion and attendees are encouraged to come with questions. The talk
is free and open to the public.

As we all know privacy is a concern from the mis-use of medical and
insurance information to the stealing of another's identity. Yet there
is much more to this issue than meets the eye. The new and evolving
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Total Information
Awareness (TIA) program is to be accomplished by the development of new
technologies, including systems that would mine large quantities of data
in order to identify potential terrorists. The U.S. Public Policy
Committee of ACM (USACM) issued a letter that raises concerns about
security, privacy, economic, and personal risks of TIA. This seminar
will provide an overview of personal privacy issues and how they are
affected by not only the TIA program but other changes in federal laws.
Join us to learn about your privacy rights, policies, laws, and what you
can do to protect those rights and your personal information.

Barbara Simons, past President of the Association for Computing
Machinery (ACM), founded ACM's US Public Policy Committee (USACM), which
she currently co-chairs. Recently, Dr. Simons has been teaching
technology policy at Stanford University. She is a Fellow of ACM and the
American Association for the Advancement of Science and she has received
numerous awards including the Outstanding Contribution Award from ACM,
and the Pioneer Award from EFF. She was selected by c|net as one of its
26 Internet "Visionaries" and by Open Computing as one of the "Top 100
Women in Computing." Dr. Simons has testified before both the U.S. and
the California legislatures and at government-sponsored hearings. She
co-founded the Reentry Program for Women and Minorities in Computer
Science at U.C. Berkeley.

Simons served on the Presidents Export Councils Subcommittee on
Encryption and on the Information Technology-Sector of the President's
Council on the Year 2000 Conversion. She is on the Board of Directors of
the U.C. Berkeley Engineering Fund, Public Knowledge, the Math/Science
Network, and the Electronic Privacy Information Center, as well as the
Advisory Boards of the Oxford Internet Institute and Zeroknowledge, and
the Public Interest Registrys .ORG Advisory Council. She has testified
before both the U.S. and the California legislatures and at government
sponsored hearings. She was runner-up in the first election for the
North America seat on the ICANN Board. She co-founded the Reentry
Program for Women and Minorities in Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley.

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Dan Coutu
Managing Director
Snowy Owl Internet Consulting, LLC
http://www.snowy-owl.com/