Information Society Project

Abstract:

“Can Technology Protect Privacy?”
This presentation examines a number of privacy-enhancing technologies (including anonymizers, the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P), user-centric identity managements systems (IDMs) and Digital Rights Management systems (DRMs)) and seeks to identify conditions for their success while also commenting on their proper role versus law and policy.

Bio:

Ira Rubinstein recently retired after 17 years from Microsoft’s Legal and Corporate Affairs department, where he headed the Regulatory Affairs and Public Policy group.  He was responsible for worldwide regulatory and policy matters including privacy, security, export control law, telecommunications and related issues.  Before coming to Microsoft, he was in private practice in Seattle, specializing in immigration law.  He graduated from Yale Law School in 1985.
 
Ira lectures and publishes widely on issues of privacy, security and export controls and has testified before Congress on these topics on numerous occasions.  His most recent article is “Data Mining and Internet Profiling: Emerging Regulatory and Technological Approaches,” co-authored with Ron Lee and Prof. Paul Schwartz, 75 U. Chi. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2008).
 
He recently served on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine.  His non-profit and community activities include Treasurer of the Washington Chapter of Appleseed, a national network of public interest law centers working to identify and address injustices in their communities, and board member of the Seattle Public Library Foundation.  He previously served on the Board of Governors of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and as a Trustee of the American Immigration Lawyers Foundation.

 

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Michael Zimmer, PhD
Microsoft Resident Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School
e: michael.zimmer@yale.edu
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