Readings are now online for first session of a reading group concerning the legal aspects of the PORTIA project. This semester, the group examines legal aspects of: copyright and digital rights management; SPAM and freedom-of-speech; privacy-preserving data mining; privacy-preserving data surveillance; and a topic to be announced. It will meet for five evening sessions at Yale Law School in New Haven, CT, starting February 5. (more ... )
The Yale Information Society Project describes the NSF-funded PORTIA (Privacy, Obligations, and Rights in Technologies of Information Assessment) as "a five-year, multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary attempt to examine, define and create technological systems that ensure the rights of data owners, data users, and data subjects. The project’s primary participants include professors from the Yale Computer Science department (as well as participants from other leading institutes in the U.S. and abroad). In addressing these issues, the project confronts difficult legal questions that pertain to privacy, intellectual property, and information law."
More info at:
Session1: Copyright, Digital Rights Management, and Privacy
Monday, February 9, 2004
Led by: Eddan Katz, ISP Fellow.
I plan to attend all five sessions. If either of my occasional readers are there, please introduce yourself.
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