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February 2018

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Common Sense 

Date 
Wed, 02/07/2018 - 15:00 to 23:00

9:00 a.m. Registration

 

9:30 a.m. Welcome and opening remarks

  • Dr. Loel Solomon, vice president, community health, Kaiser Permanente
  • James P. Steyer, CEO and founder, Common Sense

 

10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m. The Truth About Tech: Industry's Role in Shaping Health and Democracy


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Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, Insurance, and Data Security

Senate Commerce Committee

The hearing will examine the October 2016 Uber data breach, the overall value of so-called “bug bounty” programs and other approaches to identify vulnerabilities, and the allegations of impermissible payments by Uber to conceal the security incident.  

Witnesses:

  • Mr. John Flynn, Chief Information Security Officer, Uber Technologies, Inc.
  • Mr. Marten Mickos, Chief Executive Officer, HackerOne, Inc.
  • Ms. Katie Moussouris, Chief Executive Officer, Luta Security, Inc.

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Hudson Institute

Date 
Tue, 02/06/2018 - 18:00 to 19:30

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) maintains exclusive or shared regulatory responsibility for a wide range of issues including privacy, cyber-security, media broadband deployment, and network neutrality. Some of these issues, like network neutrality, have generated millions of comments to the FCC and are currently among the most controversial topics in public policy.


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Public Knowledge

Date 
Mon, 02/05/2018 - 20:00 to 21:00

Join Public Knowledge for a conversation about privacy legislation in 2018 and the launch of "Principles for Privacy Legislation," a new white paper from Public Knowledge Senior Vice President Harold Feld.

Our panel, representing a range of viewpoints, includes:

Justin Brookman, Director of Consumer Privacy and Technology Policy, Consumers Union

Eric Null, Policy Counsel, Open Technology Institute


Sponsor 

Wilson Center 

Date 
Mon, 02/05/2018 - 19:00 to 20:30

Three Wilson Center analysts examine the push and pull between state and society in the expression of cultural values in contemporary technologies, and what this tension implies for the international system:

1. Valerie Anishchenkova:  The importance of video games in modern global culture cannot be underestimated, especially in their increasing impact on personal and collective identities. What do Russian war-themed video games reveal about contemporary Russian nationalism? Who are friends and who are foes? Drawn directly from today’s geopolitical conflicts.


Trump infrastructure plan not likely to impact rural broadband

[Commentary] While the public still has no more than a leaked plan and vague State of the Union statements of aspirations, it appears the Trump administration's proposed approach to broadband infrastructure will end up delivering little of the abundant bandwidth the country’s rural areas need to thrive in the digital age. The original source of the rural broadband problem is how the administration apparently proposes to divide total investment. The leaked plan creates various buckets, with each getting a set allocation of the federal dollars.

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