Presented at
The Fifth HOPE (2004),
July 10, 2004, 5 p.m.
(60 minutes)
This panel will cover current legal crises around privacy, free speech, and intellectual property, with a special focus on the concerns of hackers. Presenters will discuss the laws which protect (or don't protect) your right to anonymous free speech online, your right to reverse-engineer, and your ability to make fair use of your digital media. They will also discuss the USA-PATRIOT Act and the ways this sweeping set of laws changed the nature of investigation and the rules governing wiretapping online.
Presenters:
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Dr. D. Kall Loper, Ph.D.
D. Kall Loper is coauthor of Digital Crime Digital Terrorism and Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of North Texas. He has thought far too much about hacker culture and would be happy to hear your thoughts on it. Before turning a hacking hobby into a life's work, he worked for the Michigan Department of Corrections teaching inmates how to write lawsuits and administrating employment and life skills training for female prisoners. He currently teaches and trains in the areas of digital forensics and computer crime investigation because they are fun and easy.
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Wendy Seltzer
- Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Wendy Seltzer is a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in intellectual property and free speech issues. As a Fellow with Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Wendy founded and leads the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, helping Internet users to understand their rights in response to cease-and-desist threats. Prior to joining EFF, Wendy taught Internet Law as an adjunct professor at St. John's University School of Law and practiced intellectual property and technology litigation with Kramer, Levin, Naftalis, and Frankel in New York. Wendy speaks frequently on copyright, trademark, open source, and the public interest online. She has an A.B. from Harvard College and J.D. from Harvard Law School, and occasionally takes a break from legal code to program (Perl).
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Annalee Newitz
- Policy Analyst, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Annalee Newitz is a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She conducts research, talks to the media, propagandizes, and writes policy recommendations and white papers. Although she is a digital rights generalist, her special areas of interest are expanding the public domain, free speech, and network regulation. Previously, she was Culture Editor at the San Francisco Bay Guardian and was the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship in 2002. She writes a syndicated column called "Techsploitation" (http://www.techsploitation.com) and is published regularly in national magazines and newspapers. In her off hours, she edits an indie magazine called Other. She has a Ph.D. in English and American Studies from UC Berkeley.
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