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Abstract:
There are many law and policy
issues that computer scientists should know something about, but
often don't. Especially in areas of privacy and intellectual property
protection, the rules are constantly changing and computer code
sometimes doesn't match up with legal code. Avoiding these situations
is desirable but sometimes difficult to impossible. And it is going
to get worse in a world that might have ubiquitous wireless,
wearable, locatable, and trackable communications.
This talk will touch on a number of topics: various perceptions of privacy, what can be monitored and by whom (today and in the future), what's legal and what's questionable, the policy and cost implications of peer-to-peer information sharing mechanisms, and other intellectual property questions currently the subject of debate in the computer science and legal communities, and the implications —good and bad —of new architectures for computer systems.
Powerpoint slides (11mb)
