Technology policy has never been more critical. Privacy, security and the appropriate balance for copyright are now central policy making challenges, if the economic and social potential of the Internet is to be realized. In this lecture, Professor Lessig will build upon the work of Oxford Professor Jonathan Zittrain to identify a critical dynamic in policy making affecting the Internet, and how technologists have become central to that dynamic. The threats to privacy, security, and the proper protection for copyright are not technical, but political. The remedies to those threats will not just be political, but in an important sense, also technological. Professor Lessig will describe this dynamic, and describe the emerging movement in the United States to address it

Details:

date: 30/04/2008
time: 6.30 pm

members: £35.25
non-members: £52.88

venue: Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2 Savoy Place, London, WC2R 0BL.

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Information governance has rapidly become an integral part of organisational strategy in both the public and private sector. Organisations of all types and size are generating ever greater volumes of sensitive data and that data must be handled lawfully to avoid damaged reputations and unnecessary costs. Breaches of the law can result in enforcement notices, fines and even criminal convictions for directors and managers.

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Speakers include:

Chair:
David Berry, Charles Russell LLP

Vincent Geake, Partnerships UK
Christopher Millard, Linklaters LLP
Tom Ilube, Garlik.
Stephen McCartney, Information Commissioner’s Office
Ellis Parry, AstraZeneca
Gillian Cordall, Maclay Murray & Spens LLP
Roger Bickerstaff, Bird & Bird
Andy Thomas, Garlik

Details

members: £264.38
non-members: £381.88

venue: Mayfair Conference Centre, 17 Connaught Place, Marble Arch, London, W2 2EL