Category Archives: Talks & Conferences

Off to Brazil

Posted on December 5, 2006 by Michael Froomkin

I don’t usually blog about ICANN here — I save that for ICANNWatch, but the next few days may be an exception, as I’m going to Sao Paulo for the second half of the ICANN meeeting, which will be followed by a NomCom meeting.

It’s seems I’ve been resentenced re-selected for the ICANN Nomcom for a second (and last) year.

UPDATE: Amazingly, Kieren McCarthy managed somehow to misread the above as follows:

Then why on EARTH have the people for next year’s Nominating Committee already been decided? Michael Froomkin has blogged that he was informed yesterday that he has been chosen a second time for the NomCom.

For the record: not so. I was informed a few weeks ago, that I had been re-selected by the ALAC. As to Kieren’s other question as to who selects the NomCom, it’s all spelled out in ICANN’s arcane by-laws: Many different groups select one or more delegates. The result is very good at including the wide diversity of views that people have about ICANN (much better than say the ICANN Board!), although IMHO it weights them kind of funny.

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Homeland Security Privacy Meeting in Miami Dec 6

Posted on November 30, 2006 by Michael Froomkin

DHS is having a meeting of its Data Privacy and Integrity Committee here in Miami and I am really really annoyed that I’m going to hve to miss this: DHS: Privacy Office – DHS Data Privacy and Integrity Committee Meeting Information

Privacy Office – DHS Data Privacy and Integrity Committee Meeting Information

The quarterly meeting of the DHS Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee will be held on December 6, 2006 at:

Eden Roc Hotel
Mona Lisa Ballroom
4525 Collins Avenue
Miami Beach, FL 33140

Public Sessions

Mona Lisa Ballroom
8:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
12:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Details of Meeting

Public Comments

2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Registration and Attendance

Any member of the public who wishes to attend the public session is requested to provide his or her name by 2:00 p.m. EST, Friday, December 1, 2006, to:

The DHS Privacy Advisory Committee
The Privacy Office
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Washington, DC 20528

Email: privacycommittee@dhs.gov
Phone: 571-227-3813
Fax: 571-227-4171

Everyone who plans to attend is respectfully requested to be present and seated by 7:45 a.m. for the morning session and 12:00 p.m. for the afternoon session. Registration is requested to assist in the preparation of meeting materials and seating arrangements. Attendance information, including names of members of the public attending, are to be made public as part of the official meeting minutes.

Persons with disabilities who require special assistance are asked to indicate this in their admittance request, and are encouraged to identify anticipated special needs as early as possible.

Contact Information

The DHS Privacy Advisory Committee
The Privacy Office
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Washington, DC 20528

Email: privacycommittee@dhs.gov
Phone: 571-227-3813
Fax: 571-227-4171

I have to miss it because I will be in Sao Paulo for the second half of an ICANN meeting — it seems I’ve been reappointed, or re-sentenced (I’m not quite sure) to the ICANN NomCom.

If anyone goes — register by tomorrow — I’d love a report.

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Of ‘Glogging’

Posted on November 3, 2006 by Michael Froomkin

I’m having a great time at ‘Unblinking’ – it’s wonderful to have a chance to learn from people in a variety of disciplines (except when it’s frustrating).

I am concentrating on the speakers, so there’s not going to be much blogging. but I did want to mention one new (to me) piece of jargon that has come up quite often: glogging.

Not everyone uses it quite the same way. Some speakers use it to mean continual personal data collection and sharing in a “sousveillance”/Steve Mann sort of a way. Others use it to mean a wider variety of user-directed broad data collection.

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In Berkeley

Posted on November 2, 2006 by Michael Froomkin

I’m in Berkeley for the Unblinking Conference. I may have some free time Saturday afternoon after the conference ends, if anyone is reading this and feels sociable.

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Privacy ‘Focus Group’ Regarding Miami-Dade Wifi Initiative

Posted on October 20, 2006 by Michael Froomkin

I’m a member of the Steering Committee advising Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez on his Wireless Miami-Dade initiative.

The Mayor’s office has been holding a series of (not that well publicized) focus group meetings on various topics.

Today’s three-hour meeting, set for 1:30pm, is on “Privacy and Security” issues, and I’ll be one of the lead-off speakers. If you’d like to attend, it’s taking place at the Stephen P. Clark Center, located at 111 N.W. 1st Street, Suite 2910, Conference Room 29-A.

The Stephen P. Clark Center, by the way, is very accessible by MetroRail: it’s the building in which the “Government Center” stop is located. To get to the 29th Floor, take the escalator down to the ground level, pass through security, then take the elevator bank on the right to the top floor. The meeting is open to the public, and covered by Florida’s rigorous Sunshine law, so you don’t even have to sign in in order to attend, despite what they’ll tell you at the front desk on the 29th floor.

Incidentally, the latest news from the staff is that they are now leaning towards a WiMax/Wifi hybrid system, sort of on the Portland model (but probably not free, rats), which given the size of the territory we’re talking about seems much more reasonable than wifi alone.

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In Atlanta

Posted on October 16, 2006 by Michael Froomkin

I’m in Atlanta today, speaking at the Georgia State University College of Law, and so probably won’t post much.

A number of readers have sent me interesting links recently, and I invite you to post pointers to them in the comments to this item. One important request though: Please do NOT post the naked URL in the first 60 characters of your entry — it messes up the blog for IE readers.

If you know how to use HTML to create a hyperlink, you can do that anywhere in your entry. But if you are posting a link in plain text, please put it at the end of your comment describing what it is.

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