Post 9-11 national security, civil liberties, and technology Forum, April 14 at UNC Chapel Hill

Security & Liberty Forum, April 14 at UNC Chapel Hill

Sat Apr 7, 2007 7:28 pm (PST)

UNC News Brief

For immediate release: Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Post 9-11 national security, civil liberties, technology explored at April
14 forum

CHAPEL HILL - Experts on national security, civil liberties and information
technology will explore conflicting needs and realities of the post 9-11
world during an April 14 forum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill.

The forum, which is free and open to the public with advance registration,
will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. in 201 Chapman Hall, part of the Carolina
Physical Science Complex located behind Memorial Hall. Seating is limited;
attendees should register at http://seclibforum.org.

Limited parking is available in the Nash Parking Lot (N-7), accessible from
Cameron Avenue via Wilson Street. Attendees should tell the parking
attendant they are going to the Security and Liberty Forum. Additional
parking is available in commercial lots on Rosemary Street.

The forum will bring together experts from academia, business, government
and law to discuss government access to privately collected data, data
sharing and retention, surveillance, data security, data mining and
propensity profiling, national ID cards and consumer rights.

"The events that took place on Sept. 11 have changed our society in utterly
profound ways. The need for national security in an age of international
terrorism often comes in conflict with our desire to preserve individual
civil liberties," said Jeannie M. Walsh, a senior lecturer in the department
of computer science in UNC's College of Arts and Sciences. "We hope to
explore the ethical and practical concerns with regard to data sharing
within the private sector - and between the private sector and government."

N.C. State Senator Janet Cowell will give introductory remarks. Confirmed
participants include:

· P. T. Wright, acting deputy director, Department of Homeland
Security

· Annie Anton, director of The Privacy Place

· Katherine Bryant, vice president for consumer advocacy at
ChoicePoint

· Jim Harper, director of information policy studies, the CATO
Institute

· Melissa Ngo, staff counsel and director of the Electronic Privacy
Information Center's (EPIC) identification and surveillance project

· Bruce Schneier, security technologist and author

· Barry Steinhardt, director of the technology and liberty program,
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

The forum is hosted by the privacy and technology committee of the ACLU of
North Carolina and UNC's department of computer science. Co-sponsors include
EPIC; ibiblio.org; UNC's School of Information and Library Science, School
of Journalism and Mass Communication, and the Internet and the social
sciences working group of the Odum Institute; and Duke University's
information science and information studies program.

Computer science department contact: Kelli Gaskill, (919) 962-1790,
gaskill@cs.unc.edu

College of Arts and Sciences contact: Kim Spurr, (919) 962-4093,
spurrk@email.unc.edu