Program Title: Online Privacy: Is There Any? - Richard Rosenberg
Description: Online technologies are radically advancing our freedoms, but are they also enabling unparalleled invasions of privacy? The first topic of Speak Up 2008 will examine issues from data mining and profiling, surveillance, the use of search engines, cookies, spy ware and email to the security of public records on the internet and confidentiality of financial and medical information.

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Featured Speakers/Guests: Richard Rosenberg
Professor Emeritus, Department of Computer Science, University of BC
President, BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association

Dr. Rosenberg’s work has focussed in areas such as privacy, freedom of expression, intellectual property rights and universal access. His research interests are in the social impact of computers and artificial intelligence. He has written widely on privacy issues, free speech and ethics, and appeared before federal parliamentary and provincial legislative committees as well as before the U.S. National Research Council. His most recent book is The Social Impact of Computers.

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