Surveillance Conference

Cato Institute

Friday, December 14, 2018 - 3:00pm to 11:30pm

Schedule

9:00 - 9:05AM WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION

Julian Sanchez, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute
 

9:05 - 10:20AM DONALD TRUMP AND THE “DEEP STATE”

Michael Glennon, Tufts University
Susan Hennessy, Brookings Institution & Lawfare
Kate Martin, Center for American Progress
April Falcon Doss, Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP

Patrick Eddington, Moderator, Cato Institute
 

10:20 - 10:35AM COFFEE BREAK
 
10:35 - 12:00PM FLASH TALKS

Low-Hanging Fruit: Evidence-Based Solutions to the Digital Evidence Challenge
Jennifer Daskal, American University 

Looking for a Backdoor Down Under: Australia’s War on Encryption
Sharon Bradford Franklin, New America

Who’s Watching the Kids: Social Media Surveillance of Students
Rachel Levinson-Waldman, Brennan Center for Justice

A Million Little Eyes: Building Networks for Facial Recognition Surveillance
Jake LaPerruque, Project on Government Oversight

Spot the Surveillance: A Virtual Reality Tool
Dave Mass, Electronic Frontier Foundation
 

12:00 - 1:15PM LUNCH
 
1:15 - 1:30PM FLASH TALKS

Privacy Not Included: Rating the Creep-Factor of Networked Appliances
Heather West, Mozilla
 

1:30 - 2:45PM PANOPTICON OF THINGS: NETWORKED APPLIANCES AS SURVEILLANCE DEVICES

Andrew Ferguson, University of the District of Columbia
Hannah Quay-de la Vallee, Center for Democracy and Technology
Heather West, Mozilla

Matthew Feeney, Moderator, Cato Institute
 

2:45 - 3:45PM FLASH TALKS

Watching the Watchers—Facebook Transparency Edition
Alexandra Galloway, Facebook

Watching the Watchers—Google Transparency Edition
David Lieber, Google

Watching the Watchers—FOIA Transparency Edition
Jesse Franzblau, Open the Government
 

3:45 - 4:00PM BREAK
 
4:00 - 5:15PM SECURING JOURNALISM IN AN AGE OF SURVEILLANCE

Spencer Ackerman, Daily Beast
Olivia Martin, Freedom of the Press Foundation
Rob Mahoney, Committee to Protect Journalists
Jack Gillum, ProPublica

Julian Sanchez, Moderator, Cato Institute
 

5:15 - 5:30PM CLOSING REMARKS

Julian Sanchez, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute



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