Privacy, Security and Freedom of Expression — Learning Day

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What, if anything, should we do about extremist content on the Internet? What is the role of Internet companies in promoting free expression and privacy around the world? How should we manage data requests from law enforcement and intelligence agencies around the world, when countries have different privacy protections and different laws?

The Global Network Initiative and the Center for Internet and Society will host an all-day Learning Event on Wednesday December 2nd at Stanford Law School covering some hot topics for free expression and digital privacy.

In a series of panel and interactive discussions, we will address the global response to extremist content and cross-border data movement.
In addition, a panel with representatives of internet and telecommunication companies will assess the new Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index with RDR Director Rebecca MacKinnon, and discuss companies’ policies and practices for free expression, privacy, and increasing requests from governments around to world to monitor and restrict content.

Lunch will be served.

No cost for registration.

Registration from 9am

Event commences at 9.30am and finishes at 5pm.

PROGRAM

9.30am – Introductions/Opening Remarks
Mark Stephens CBE, Board Chair, Global Network Initiative
Jennifer Stisa Granick – Director of Civil Liberties, Center for Internet & Society, Stanford Law School

Panel Session and Q&A: Addressing Extremist Content Online
9.45am – 11.15am

How should we approach extremist content to best promote free expression, privacy, diversity, personal and national security?

Moderator: Rob Mahoney – Committee to Protect Journalists/GNI Board member

Speakers:
Jason Pielemeier, US State Department (remote participant)
Rachel Gillum Jackson – Associate, Rice Hadley Gates
Juniper Downs, Google
Adil Haq – Muslim Advocates
Yolanda Rondon – American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
Cynthia Wong – Human Rights Watch

15 minute break

Panel Discussion and Q&A: Mutual Legal Assistance
11.30am – 12.45pm

The system that governments use to share the cross-border data required for law enforcement is under severe stress. What are the options for reforming the mutual legal assistance system? How can we ensure reform will promote advances in global human rights?

Greg Nojeim – Center for Democracy and Technology
Andrew K. Woods – Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky
Matt Perault – Facebook Public Policy

BUFFET LUNCH

Presentations, Roundtable discussion and Q&A:

Human Rights/Digital Rights
1.45pm-3.15pm

In this session we will hear presentations on two projects designed to assess the extent to which private companies promote and respect the digital rights of users. Rebecca MacKinnon, Director of the Ranking Digital Rights project will discuss the newly released Corporate Accountability Index, and Amos Toh, Legal Advisor to UN Special Rapporteur for Freedom of opinion and Expression, David Kaye, will discuss the new mandate to examine the responsibility of the ICT sector to promote and protect freedom of expression in the digital age. Following the presentations, company representatives will respond to and discuss the presentations and we will also hear responses from GNI Executive Director Judith Lichtenberg, and from the investor perspective, Dunstan Allison-Hope from BSR.

Moderator: Michael Samway  – Georgetown University

Presentations:

Rebecca Mackinnon – Ranking Digital Rights
Amos Toh  – Legal Advisor to United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right of Freedom of Opinion and Expression.

Roundtable discussion and Q&A

Steve Crown – Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Microsoft
Nicole Karlebach – Senior Legal Counsel, Business and Human Rights, Yahoo (TBC)
Yves Nissim – Vice President and Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, Orange Telecom
Lewis Segall – Senior Counsel, Ethics and Compliance, Google
Judith Lichtenberg – Executive Director, Global Network Initiative
Dunstan Allison-Hope – Managing Director, Advisory Services, Business for Social Responsibility:

20 minute break for snack

Discussion: EU Safe Harbor: What next?
3.35pm – 4.50pm

The European Court of Justice, Europe’s highest court, recently ruled that the Safe Harbor, an arrangement between the European Union and the United States allowing for the transfer of personal data, is legally invalid. The ruling has very serious implications for companies like Facebook and Google that hold EU citizens’ data, because unless the matter is resolved, these companies will have to close down operations in Europe, or find another way to comply with EU data protection law. Since the basis for the CJEU’s ruling is that U.S. surveillance law doesn’t adequately protect the rights of EU citizens, that could be very hard to do. What’s next for U.S. companies, EU users, data protection law, and US surveillance law?

Moderator/Interviewer: Jennifer Stisa Granick – Director of Civil Liberties, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School

Panelists:
Tracy Shapiro, Attorney, Wilson Sonsini
Henry Farrell, Professor of Political Science, George Washington University  

4.50pm – Closing remarks

Organizer

Center for Internet and Society

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