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ICYMI: California Privacy Law Briefing Video now online. Should Congress Act?

Yesterday, the Congressional Internet Caucus Academy assembled a group of experts to discuss the recent action on consumer privacy in California and the EU, and the potential for Congressional legislation. Our panelists had a lively debate on the effectiveness of consumer privacy bills, and what should be done to protect online data.

Photos, video, and a podcast of the event are now available on our channels — watch to learn more about the future of consumer privacy.

The Academy Panel

Michelle De Mooy – Director, Privacy and Data Project, Center for Democracy and Technology (bio)

Ryan Hagemann – Senior Director for Policy, Niskanen Center (bio)

Ariel Fox Johnson – Senior Counsel for Policy and Privacy, Common Sense Media (bio)

Jordan Crenshaw – Assistant Policy Counsel, Chamber Technology Engagement Center, U.S. Chamber of Commerce (bio)

David McCabe – Technology Reporter, Axios (bio)

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Will The California, EU, and State Privacy Laws Be Addressed By Congress?

Last month the California legislature hastily passed sweeping privacy regulations to stave off even more sweeping rules that would have emerged from the state’s ballot initiative process. These regulations from the state of California, which is the world’s 5th largest economy and home to the most dominant data companies on the planet, will apply to a huge swath of data on the Internet, and offline as well. These rules follow the massive European privacy law, the GDPR, which started its enforcement period just a month earlier.

With consumer privacy breaches and Congressional privacy hearings in the headlines daily, many are asking whether Congress will act on data privacy? Will more US states follow California’s lead and pass consumer privacy laws as well?

Join us this Thursday July 26th in the Rayburn HOB for a popup briefing on the California Consumer Privacy Act, GDPR, and the potential for future Congressional action on this issue. We’ve assembled an expert group of panelists to discuss their perspectives on consumer privacy legislation in the past and moving forward

Join us on Thursday, July 26th, at the Rayburn House Building, Room 2226

Date: Thursday, July 26th, 2018
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Location: Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2226
Lunch: Box lunch will be served.
Follow: @NetCaucusAC | #PrivacyIC

Moderator

David McCabe – Technology Reporter, Axios (bio)

Panelists

Michelle De Mooy – Director, Privacy and Data Project, Center for Democracy and Technology (bio)

Ryan Hagemann – Senior Director for Policy, Niskanen Center (bio)

Ariel Fox Johnson – Senior Counsel for Policy and Privacy, Common Sense Media (bio)

Jordan Crenshaw – Assistant Policy Counsel, Chamber Technology Engagement Center, U.S. Chamber of Commerce (bio)

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Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin: Building Trust in a Digital World

While there is a lot of hype around Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies, cryptocurrencies are only the tip of the iceberg. Blockchain – the technology underlying cryptocurrencies – offers a host of other transformative use cases, including supply chain management, digital identity management, and smart contracts.

Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology which promises to authenticate transactions without the need for a trusted third-party. Forward-looking companies are deploying blockchain for a variety of uses beyond cryptocurrency. Financial managers are using blockchain to verify digital identity and streamline the process of electronic signatures. Supply chain companies are exploring blockchain technology to track the goods we purchase every day through the entire supply chain. Government offices are identifying ways the technology can make government processes more efficient and cost-effective. Our panel will discuss the potentially transformative applications of blockchain beyond the hype of cryptocurrencies.

We’ve assembled an expert group of panelists to discuss their perspectives on business, government, blockchain, and more.

Join us on Monday, July 16th, at the Rayburn House Building, Room 2237

 

Moderator

Lydia Beyoud – FinTech & RegTech Reporter, Bloomberg Law (bio)

Panelists

Amgad Shehata -Senior Vice President, International Public Affairs & Strategy, UPS (bio)

Amy Davine Kim – Global Policy Director & General Counsel, Chamber of Digital Commerce (bio)

Tiffany Angulo – Legislative Assistant, Office of Rep. David Schweikert; Staff Co-Chair of the Congressional Blockchain Caucus (bio)

Jason Albert – Deputy General Counsel, Workday (bio)

Isabelle Corbett – Head of Regulatory Affairs, R3 (bio)

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Carpenter: How SCOTUS Defines Constitutional Privacy In The Digital Age

Moments ago the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) issued its ruling in cellphone privacy case, Carpenter v. U.S. Join us for a popup briefing next Friday as a panel of Academy experts parses the Court’s decision and what it means for the future of privacy.

The Carpenter case may potentially transform our understanding of our Constitutional privacy rights and Fourth Amendment jurisprudence. Our panel will discuss what privacy rights should U.S. citizens maintain when they share their location and other data with Internet companies and cellphone carriers? Does law enforcement need a warrant to collect this data from these “third-parties?”

This is the first briefing of our SCOTUS Tech series.

 

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Moderator

Jadzia Pierce – Associate, Covington & Burlin LLP, Internet Law & Policy Foundry Fellow

Panelists

Michelle Richardson – Deputy Director, Freedom, Security, and Technology Policy, Center for Democracy and Technology

Dan Schweitzer – Supreme Court Counsel, National Association of Attorneys General

David Lieber – Senior Privacy Policy Counsel, Google

SCOTUS Tech

Like the U.S. Congress, the Supreme Court is struggling to reckon with rapidly emerging Internet technologies in its decision-making. Applying centuries of caselaw to massively disrupting technologies is increasingly becoming a challenge for the highest court and its appellate courts.

SCOTUS Tech is a new series of panel discussions co-hosted by the Congressional Internet Caucus Academy and the State of the Net Series. SCOTUS Tech will bring together experts over a series of events to explore how the Supreme Court and appellate courts grapple with technology in the Internet age.

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Wayfair: Collecting Online Sales Taxes – Will Congress Weigh in?

The Supreme Court recently issued a momentous decision in Wayfair v South Dakota. In overturning a 26-year precedent, SCOTUS has opened the floodgates for states to impose sales tax on online purchases. While critics of the decision claim it will cripple small online businesses, supporters argue that it will allow states to recoup taxes already owed to them and allow traditional retailers to compete fairly with e-commerce companies.

Join us on Monday July 9 as we assemble an expert panel to discuss SCOTUS’s decision and the future of US commerce.

This briefing is part of our SCOTUS Tech series.

 

Moderator

Hillary Brill – Practitioner-in-Residence, Washington College of Law’s Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Clinic

Panelists

George Isaacson – Senior Partner, Brann & Isaacson

Jennifer Platt – Vice President, Federal Operations, International Council of Shopping Centers

Mike Dabbs – Senior Director, Americas Government Relations, Ebay

Amanda Kellar – Director of Legal Advocacy, International Municipal Lawyers Association

 

SCOTUS Tech

Like the U.S. Congress, the Supreme Court is struggling to reckon with rapidly emerging Internet technologies in its decision-making. Applying centuries of caselaw to massively disrupting technologies is increasingly becoming a challenge for the highest court and its appellate courts.

SCOTUS Tech is a new series of panel discussions co-hosted by the Congressional Internet Caucus Academy and the State of the Net Series. SCOTUS Tech will bring together experts over a series of events to explore how the Supreme Court and appellate courts grapple with technology in the Internet age.

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Announcing the SCOTUS Tech Series

Like the U.S. Congress, the Supreme Court is struggling to reckon with rapidly emerging Internet technologies in its decision-making. Applying centuries of caselaw to massively disrupting technologies is increasingly becoming a challenge for the highest court and its appellate courts.

SCOTUS Tech is a new series of panel discussions co-hosted by the Congressional Internet Caucus Academy and the State of the Net Series. SCOTUS Tech will bring together experts over a series of events to explore how the Supreme Court and appellate courts grapple with technology in the Internet age.

We will announce SCOTUS Tech events on an ongoing basis. More details will follow. Sign-up to our mailing list to keep apprised of announcements using the button below. Follow the conversation at #SCOTUSTech.

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“A Disaster Foretold – And Ignored”: Revisiting the 1st-ever Cybersecurity Hearing

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Revisiting the First-Ever Congressional Cybersecurity Hearing
A 20th Anniversary of the Infamous “L0pht” Hearing

This event is hosted by the Congressional Internet Caucus Academy in conjunction with…

the Congressional Internet Caucus &
the Senate Cybersecurity Caucus

The Co-Chairs of the Senate Cybersecurity Caucus are:
Senator Cory Gardner | Senator Mark Warner

 

The Co-Chairs of the Congressional Internet Caucus are:
Senator John Thune | Senator Patrick Leahy
Congressman Bob Goodlatte | Congresswoman Anna G. Eshoo

In May 1998 several hackers appeared before a Senate committee and bluntly told the Senators on the dais that the networks of computers and software were terribly insecure. The headline for a relatively recent Washington Post article commemorating the hearing pronounced “A DISASTER FORETOLD — AND IGNORED.” The subtitle of the article read, “LOpht’s warnings about the Internet drew notice but little action.” (C-SPAN hearing video here).

The witness table name plates for the hackers’ displayed their L0pht hacker community handles — “Space Rogue,” “Kingpin,” and “Mudge.” Looking back, the panelists seem almost prophetic on the many concerns of which they warned the Senators.

Join us on Tuesday, May 22 for a 20th anniversary look back at the L0pht hearing. You’ll hear from several of the original hearing witnesses on what, if anything, has changed in cybersecurity since their chilling testimony two decades ago.

 

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Peiter “Mudge” Zatko testifies at the L0pht hearing in May 1998

Watch the original hearing on YouTube here.

Speakers

 

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Joe “Kingpin” Grand
Product Designer and Founder
Grand Idea Studio
 

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Cris “Space Rogue” Thomas
X-Force Red Global Strategy Lead
IBM
 

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Chris “Weld Pond” Wysopal 
Chief Technology Officer
Veracode
 

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Peiter “Mudge” Zatko
Chairperson
Cyber-ITL

When: Tuesday, May 22, 2018, 3:30 pm
Where: Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2237
RSVP: Via Eventbrite
Follow: @NetCaucusAC | #L0pht20
Streaming: https://www.facebook.com/cicac/
Refreshments will be served.

 

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Antitrust & the Internet: Video, Podcast, and Photos Available

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The video from the Academy’s congressional lunch discussion of “Antitrust & the Internet” is now available online. The speakers discussed the recent Mark Zuckerberg hearings as well as USDOJ antitrust chief Makan Delrahim’s recent remarks on “Antitrust Enforcement in the Digital Era” (AAG Delrahim’s written remarks here). 

Video, photo, and podcast links below. 

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“Antitrust and competition policy is exciting stuff,” said no one ever (except, of course, the very few who follow this arcane field of economics and algorithms). Yet in recent months on Capitol Hill competition policy buzzwords have started to be overheard in conversations outside of the traditional antitrust policy bastions such as the Antitrust subcommittees. Is all this “excitement” around competition policy because folks are curious how the new Administration will approach mergers and market concentration? Or is it, as some have suggested, that because the Internet has profoundly changed how markets have traditionally operated, our antitrust policy must change as well?

We’ve assembled an expert group of panelists to discuss their perspectives on competition and antitrust.

When: Friday, April 27, 2018 @ 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
Where: Rayburn House Office Building Room 2237

SPEAKERS

– Alexei Alexis, Reporter, Bloomberg (Bio)

– Diana Moss, President of the American Antitrust Institute (Bio)

– Jan Rybnicek, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (Bio) [Filling in for Joshua Wright, University Professor and Executive Director o f theGlobal Antitrust Institute, Scalia Law School]

– John Bergmayer, Senior Counsel, Public Knowledge (Bio)

Follow: @NetCaucusAC #AntitrustIC

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ICYMI: GDPR Briefing

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Last Friday the CICA held a briefing about the implications of the impending EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). This single law would apply to the entire European continent as well as any businesses outside of Europe who handle European citizens data. The regulation is set to take effect May 25th, 2018 of this year. Our panel of experts discussed what this means for not only American companies but also challenges the idea that personal data is no longer a form of currency and individuals have rights to protect their data.

SPEAKERS

– Kelly DeMarchis Bastide, Partner, Venable (Bio)

– Melanie Bates, Director of Communications, Future of Privacy Forum, Moderator (Bio)

– Aymeric Dupont, Counsellor-Delegation of the European Union to the United States (Bio)

– Mike Godwin, Director of Innovation Policy and General Counsel, Distinguished Senior Fellow, R Street Institute (Bio)

– Joe Jerome, Policy Counsel, Center for Democracy & Technology (Bio)

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Diversity and Balance at #SOTN2018

State of the Net works assiduously to make our panels as diverse as possible. This year, 46.81% of the speakers were men and 53.19% were women. We are extremely proud of these numbers, as they illustrate our goal to build panels step by step in order to insure an appropriate balance of perspectives and gender. It is thanks to all the wonderful speakers who came together to make this happen.

Our attendees are also diverse with regard to sectors represented. Our percentage of government staff attendees (36.7%) is exceptional, and the amount of registered press is unmatched. There are also a great number of students from across the country who added another dimension to the diversity of attendees this year.

*These statistics reflect the agenda 72 business hours before the start of the conference. Two female speakers canceled their appearances one business hour before the conference due to a family emergency, and a third female speaker canceled her appearance 72 hours before the conference due to a family emergency.*

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