I’m going to an interesting conference in November called Unblinking: New Perspectives on Visual Privacy in the 21st Century (you can see the prelminary abstract for my paper PETs in Public), and there’s room for a few more:
We have space for a very limited number of audience-participants (the speakers were selected some months ago, but this is an interactive format). If you are interested, please send an inquiry to Maryanne McCormick by 10 Oct: a short bio, description of your work/interests in visual privacy, and your availability on these dates, in plain text to:
best,
Deirdre Mulligan and Pamela Samuelson
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Unblinking: New Perspectives on Visual Privacy in the 21st Century
A Cross-Disciplinary Symposium UC Berkeley, Nov 3-4, 2006 https://www.law.berkeley.edu/bclt/events/unblinking
Co-Chairs: Deirdre K. Mulligan (Law) Pam Samuelson (Law and The Information School) Ken Goldberg (Engineering)
Worldwide demand for security cameras has expanded greatly since 9/11/2001 and the London transport bombings. Over the same period, consumer demand for high resolution digital and cell-phone cameras has increased markedly. Video applications are being incorporated into learning, healthcare, family and work environments. Engineers are responding with new generations of highly sophisticated chips, lenses, robotic platforms, and systems.
In a rapidly evolving environment of unblinking eyes, technologically perfected recollections, and permanent visual records, what will it mean to have privacy? How will the introduction of unblinking eyes alter how we experience and behave in public and private spaces?
Privacy is a complex and often abstract topic: this symposium will address “visual privacy,” a subset of the much broader topic of data privacy, and bring together experts from a range of perspectives: art, law, engineering, public policy, psychology, architecture, urban planning, sociology, human rights and others.
