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C D T P O L I C Y P O S T
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A BRIEFING ON PUBLIC POLICY ISSUES
AFFECTING CIVIL LIBERTIES ONLINE
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THE CENTER FOR DEMOCRACY AND TECHNOLOGY
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Volume 5, Number 17 August 9, 1999
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CONTENTS:
(1) CFP2000 Set for Toronto: Proposals Wanted; October 15 Deadline
(2) Special Programs Planned
(3) Subscription Information
(4) About the Center for Democracy and Technology
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(1) CFP2000 SET FOR TORONTO: PROPOSALS WANTED; OCTOBER 15 DEADLINE
The next Computers, Freedom and Privacy (CFP) conference, the pre-eminent
forum for issues regarding democracy and technology, is scheduled for April
4-7, 2000 in Toronto, Canada. CDT is taking an active role in preparations,
through in-kind sponsorship and membership on the conference's program
committee.
CFP2000 marks CFP's 10th anniversary. As always, the CFP audience will be
as diverse as the Net itself, with attendees not only from government,
business, education, and non-profits, but also from the community of
computer professionals, hackers, crackers and engineers who work the code
of cyberspace.
For CFP2000, the program committee is seeking proposals for conference
sessions and speakers with an emphasis on finding policy and technical
solutions to the more difficult issues that face freedom and privacy on the
Net. Proposals are welcomed on all aspects of computers, freedom and
privacy. The organizers are particularly interested in proposals that
tackle the hard questions, look at old issues in new ways, articulate and
challenge key assumptions, and present complex issues in all their
complexity. Proposals are due by October 15, 1999. See
http://www.cfp2000.org/submissions for more information.
For general info, visit the CFP2000 site: http://www.cfp2000.org/. And for
an excellent summary of CFP '99, go to
http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/DV/NotesCFP99.html.
CDT will send you more information about CFP as the conference nears. In
the meantime, we hope that you will join us in submitting proposals.
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(2) SPECIAL PROGRAMS PLANNED
There will be two new programs at CFP2000:
1) A workshop on Freedom and Privacy by Design will bring together
implementors and those who have studied the social issues of freedom and
privacy to generate ideas for freedom-enhancing systems that we should
field, and implementation strategies for fielding them. See
http://www.cfp2000.org/workshop/ for more information.
2) Full time college or graduate students may compete for financial support
to attend the conference and for cash prizes. See
http://www.cfp2000.org/students/ for more information.
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(4) ABOUT THE CENTER FOR DEMOCRACY AND TECHNOLOGY/CONTACTING US
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and advocate public policies that advance democratic values and
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