Thursday, October 23, 2008
Conference: Privacy in Social Network Sites
Thursday, October 23 & Friday, October 24, 2008.
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
Social Network Sites (SNS) have become the number one websites for sharing information, organizing events and getting your ideas out to the world. Recently, SNS have been used to support the American presidential campaigns and to smuggle photos of the natural disaster out of the country of Myanmar. However, the centralized collection, processing and dissemination of such as large amount of identity-relevant information has lead to increased disclosure of sensitive information, identity theft and physical and mental harm. This calls for a thorough consideration of why we should restrain access to our identity-relevant information and how a concept of ‘privacy’ in Social Network Sites could be developed. Keynote speakers are Jeroen van den Hoven, Milton Mueller and Ronald Leenes.
Promo material conference:
* Weblog of the conference
* Facebook event page
* Hyves event page
* Flyer
Results from the conference:
Video and slides are available online.
Book ‘The Online Panopticon’:
* For the Netherlands: hard copies can be ordered with (as long as stock lasts). Costs: 10 euro (including postal expenses).
* A freely downloadable pdf will soon be made available.
The first question to answer is why it’s important to protect the information that people willfully post on Social Network Sites. Are there moral reasons to constrain the disclosure of this data? Another question is how this disclosure of data creates harm for the users of Social Network Sites. Which activities can be employed by using identity-relevant information found on SNS and what harm do such activities create for users? There might be agreement about how specific activities harm users, but experts certainly don’t agree on how these harmful activities could be minimized. Should we restrict the variety of actions people can pursue on the Internet by regulations or should we instead rely on self-regulation? This will be a central topic of the conference. We will also zoom into the different technologies that can be employed to protect the privacy of users in Social Network Sites. These Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) provide various ways of data protection for the users. To what extent can these technologies be applied to the everconnected world of Social Network Sites?
This conference will deal with a wide range of topics that relate to Social Network Sites, varying from moral reasons to protect privacy to concrete ways to protect users’ privacy.
Keynote speakers
- Jeroen van den Hoven, Delft University of Technology, scientific director of the 3TU Centre for Ethics and Technology
- Milton Mueller, Director of the Telecommunications Network Management Program at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies
Preliminary program
A more detailed preliminary program can be downloaded here (updated 21 October).
Thursday, October 23, 2008
| 12:30 | Opening of the Conference and Ceremony for Mekelprize |
| Prof. dr. ir. Jacob Fokkema, Rector Magnificus of Delft University of Technology | |
| 13:00 | Privacy in Social Network Sites |
| David Riphagen BSc, independent researcher at EPIC and Master graduate student at Delft University of Technology | |
| 14:00 | Informational Wrongdoings & Moral Reasons to Protect Informational Privacy |
| Prof. dr. Jeroen van den Hoven, scientific director of 3TU.Ethics | |
| 15:00 | Closure of the first day by Jeroen van den Hoven. |
Friday, October 24, 2008
| 8:45 | Opening of the second day by Prof. Milton Mueller PhD. |
| 9:00 | Privacy in Social Network Sites as Information Market Failure |
| Brian Holland, Assistant professor Penn State Dickinson School of Law | |
| 11:00 | Protecting privacy in Social Network Sites versus a deregulated Internet |
| Prof. Milton Mueller, director Telecommunications Network Management Program, Syracuse University School of Information Studies Assistant Professor Natali Helberger PhD, University of Amsterdam, former managing legal partner to INDICARE and researcher of privacy and other user issues in the context of User Created Content and Social Network Sites. | |
| 14:00 | Privacy-enhancing techniques for Social Network Sites |
| Scott Cunningham, Assistant professor Policy Analysis, TU Delft Aad Koppenhol, Principal IT Architect Sun Microsystems Noemi Manders-Huits, PhD ‘Ethics of Identity Management’, Delft University of Technology Discussion leader: Jeroen van den Hoven | |
| 16:00 | Keynote: Understanding Privacy in Social Network Sites |
| Dr. Ronald Leenes, Associate Professor Tilburg University’s Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society (TILT) | |
| 18:00 | Reception |
| 19:00 | Closing of the second day by Dr. ir. Jan van den Berg, Associate Professor Information and Communication Technology, Delft University of Technology |
Registration and accommodation
The registration form is now available.
Yes, I want to register for the Privacy in Social Network Site conference. Registration is free.
- The conference starts on Thursday, October 23, noon (final registration)
- The conference ends Friday, October 24, 18:30.
- Attendants are requested to arrange accommodation themselves. Please note that Delft is a popular tourist destination. You are advised to arrange your accommodation well in advance. List of recommended hotels.
Location
Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, room Alpha. www.tbm.tudelft.nl
Delft University of Technology. www.tudelft.nl
Jaffalaan 5, Delft, The Netherlands.
Organization / more information
The conference will be organized by David Riphagen. Conference manager will be Henneke Filiz-Piekhaar. For more information on the conference you can contact her at
Sponsors
3TU Centre for Ethics and Technology
TU Delft Platform for Ethics and Technology
Delft University of Technology
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