Computers, Freedom, and Privacy

The Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference (or CFP, or the Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy) is an annual academic conference held in the USA or Canada about the intersection of computer technology, freedom, and privacy issues. The conference was founded in 1991, and since at least 1999, it has been organized under the aegis of the Association for Computing Machinery. It was originally sponsored by CPSR.

The first CFP was held in 1991 in Burlingame, California.

The Computers, Freedom and Privacy 99 Conference, sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery, the 9th annual CFP, was held in Washington, DC from 6 April 1999 to 8 April 1999. CFP99 focused on international Internet regulation and privacy protection. There were close to 500 registered participants and attendees included high-level government officials, grassroots advocates and programmers.

The conference chair for CFP99 was Marc Rotenberg and the program coordinator was Ross Stapleton-Gray.

Keynote speakers at CFP99 were Tim Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium,Vint Cerf, president of the Internet Society and FTC Commissioner Mozelle Thompson.

Others who spoke at CFP99 included: David Banisar, policy director at the Electronic Privacy Information Center; US Representative Bob Barr former federal prosecutor and Georgia Republican; Colin Bennett, a privacy expert at Canada's University of Victoria; Paula Breuning, a lawyer for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration in the United States Department of Commerce; Becky Burr, head of the Commerce Department unit overseeing many Internet issues; Jason Catlett, privacy advocate and president of JunkBusters; Scott Charney, head of the United States Department of Justice computer crimes unit; the artist Henry Cross;Simon Davies, Fellow of the London School of Economics and representative of Privacy International;Elizabeth France, head of the UK Data Protection Registrar; Bob Gellman, privacy consultant; Peter Hustinx, president of the Dutch Data Protection Authority; Stephen Lau Ka-men, Hong Kong's Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data; Jim Lewis from the US Commerce Department's Bureau of Export Administration; US Representative Ed Markey, a ranking Democrat on the House Subcommittee for Telecommunications, Trade and Consumer Protection; Erich Moechel from Quintessenz, Austria;Aryeh Neier, president of the Open Society Institute; Jagdesh Parikh, an official with Human Rights Watch;Philip Reitinger, a prosecutor for the US Justice Department; Carol Risher, vice president of the American Association of Publishers;Michael Robertson, president of MP3.com; Cary Scherman, general counsel of the Recording Industry Association of America;Bruce Schneier, president of Counterpane Systems;Barbara Simons, president of the Association for Computing Machinery; David Sobel, legal counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center;Latanya Sweeney, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Technology and Policy at Carnegie Mellon University;Peter Swire, chief counselor for privacy in the US Office of Management and Budget; Greg Taylor of Electronic Frontiers Australia;Christine Varney, representative of the Online Privacy Alliance and former FTC commissioner; George Vrandenburg, senior vice president of America Online; Steve Wright, of the UK-based nonprofit Omega Foundation, author of a report on ECHELON;

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