Privacy & Security Implications on Web 2.0

This workshop will discuss the Privacy and Security Implications of Web 2.0: From social networks to cloud computing, online games and virtual worlds.


Organizing team
Jeff Brueggeman, Vice President-Public Policy for AT&T
Lillie Coney, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
Sarah B. Deutsch, Vice President & Associate General Counsel, Verizon Communications
Michelle Demooy, Senior Associate, Consumer-action.org
Carrie Gardner, American Library Association Intellectual Freedom Committee.
Kathryn D. Ratté, senior attorney with the Division of Privacy and Identity Protection in the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection;
Katitza Rodriguez, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
Heather I. Shaw, Vice President, ICT Policy. U.S. Council for International Business

Moderator
Katitza Rodriguez, is Director of EPIC International Privacy Program, and Member of the Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Group of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum.

Panel/Speaker
Jeff Brueggeman. Vice President of Public Policy, ATT
Michelle Demooy, Senior Associate, Consumer-action.org
Ginger McCall, EPIC Staff Counsel
Carrie Gardner, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Library Science and Instructional Technology Kutztown University and Member, American Library Association Intellectual Freedom Committee.
Kathryn D. Ratte, Attorney, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, Federal Trade Commission
Facebook (Invited)
Google (Invited)

Format:
Interactive Round-table with an active moderator and participation from the floor. The results are expected to feed into other international processes and in particular the sessions dedicated to that subject at the Global 2009 IGF in Sharm El Sheikh.

Related documents/activities

FTC to Host Public Roundtables to Address Evolving Consumer Privacy Issues
EPIC on Cloud Computing
EPIC on Social Networks
TACD Resolution on Social Networks. The TACD is a forum of US and EU consumer organisations which develops and agrees on joint consumer policy recommendations to the US government and the European Union to promote the consumer interest in EU and US policy making.
Recommendations and Contributions to the OECD Ministerial Meeting of 17-18 June 2008 from Civil Society Participants in the Public Voice Coalition
OECD Civil Society Seoul Declaration
Privacy Information is a project of Consumer Action, a national non-profit consumer advocacy and education organization.

Participant biographies

Jeff Brueggeman is Vice President-Public Policy for AT&T. He is responsible for developing and coordinating AT&T’s public policy positions on Internet, technology and convergence issues. Jeff and his team also support AT&T’s business in the operation of its global Internet network, deployment of next-generation broadband networks and development of converged IP services.

Jeff participates in numerous international conferences involving Internet policy and regulation, including the Internet Governance Forum and ICANN. He also has been actively engaged in policy panels addressing convergence and innovation issues, including privacy, broadband deployment and environmental sustainability. Prior to joining AT&T’s public policy group, Jeff worked as an attorney in AT&T’s Washington, D.C. office advocating the company’s positions on broadband and universal service issues before the Federal Communications Commission. He previously worked as a telecommunications attorney in private practice.

Ginger McCall is Staff Counsel at EPIC, where she works on EPIC's litigation matters, including amicus curiae briefs, open records requests, and national security matters. Ms. McCall is a graduate of Cornell Law School and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh with a B.A. in English Literature. While in law school, she was the head of the Cornell Law School National Lawyers Guild, helped to found the Cornell Law School National Security Law Society, was ranked as a semifinalist in Cornell Law School's Winter Cup moot court competition, and was a Cornell Judicial Codes Counselor (representing students before Cornell's academic and conduct hearing boards). Ms. McCall spent her first law school summer interning with the American Civil Liberties Union in Pittsburgh, PA and her second summer as a clerk with EPIC. While clerking with EPIC, Ms. McCall worked on projects involving a variety of privacy topics, including spyware protections, medical record privacy, and the Freedom of Information Act. Because of her work in civil rights, Ms. McCall was awarded the Freeman Prize for Civil and Human Rights by Cornell Law School.

Michelle De Mooy, Senior Associate, National Priorities, has been working on behalf of social justice issues for the last 12 years. Prior to joining Consumer Action, she was the Director of Development and Communications at Fair Chance, a nonprofit that provides organizational development services to grassroots groups serving children and families. Before that, Michelle was a Senior Consultant for eCampaigns at M+R Strategic Services, where she managed media strategy for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, The Wilderness Society, and labor rights group American Rights at Work. Before relocating to DC in 2005, Michelle provided strategic marketing, communications and technology consulting for non-profits and universities in the Philadelphia area, including the Women’s Opportunities Resource Center, To Our Children’s Future With Health, the University of Pennsylvania and Villanova University. At the Women’s Law Project (and its affiliate group WomenVote PA), she aided in the agency’s efforts to pursue high-impact litigation and public policy for gender equality concerns, including reproductive rights, contraceptive equity and Title IX programs, and volunteered in their direct services program as a legal information counselor. In Philadelphia, Michelle was a senior marketing manager for Investor Broadcast Network where she managed corporate communications, brand advertising and marketing for radiowallstreet.com, hedgecall.com, and investorbroadcast.com. She was also involved in the early days of the dotcom boom, developing website projects for dotcom startups in San Francisco, including Looksmart, Ltd. Michelle graduated from Lehigh University in 1997 with a degree in Government.

Carrie Gardner, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Library Science and Instructional Technology Kutztown University and Member, American Library Association Intellectual Freedom Committee.

Kathryn D. Ratté is a senior attorney with the Division of Privacy and Identity Protection in the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. Ms. Ratté investigates and prosecutes violations of U.S. federal laws governing the privacy and security of consumer information. She brought the Federal Trade Commission’s first enforcement actions under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Safeguards Rule, as well as the Commission’s case against the data broker ChoicePoint. She has also served as counsel for international consumer protection in the FTC’s Office of International Affairs, where she worked on a number of international policy initiatives dealing with privacy and data security, including the project to establish cross-border privacy rules in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation. Before joining the Federal Trade Commission, Ms. Ratté was an associate with a private law firm in Washington, D.C. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and Duke Law School.

Katitza Rodríguez is Director of EPIC´s International Privacy Program, and Member of the Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Group of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum. She concentrates on comparative international policy and legal aspects of privacy and data protection, international transfer of personal data and privacy global standards. She is Research Director for EPIC "Privacy and Human Rights Report (PHR) 2008" (forthcoming), the most comprehensive survey of privacy laws and developments in the world. She was also Research Editor of the Latin American Reports in the 2005 and 2006 editions of PHR. She participates and monitors the work of several organizations on international privacy discussions, including the OECD, the Privacy Sub-Group of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF), the Data Protection Commissioner Meeting and the Ibero-American Data Protection Network. Katitza is also coordinator of The Public Voice Coalition. She was responsible for facilitating the participation of Civil Society Participants of The Public Voice Coalition in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Ministerial Meeting in Seoul, Korea as well as the organization of the OECD Civil Society Forum. This effort resulted in the creation of the Civil Society Information Society Advisory Council (CSISAC), a landmark achievement for civil society at the OECD. The Public Voice Project will serves as the initial point of contact with the OECD Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy (ICCP) and is responsible for facilitating CSISAC participation in the OECD from 2009-2010.

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