Conference: Securing Privacy in the Internet Age

Stanford's upcoming conference: Securing Privacy in the Internet Age:

A Stanford Law School Symposium: Securing Privacy in the Internet
Age

What legal regimes or market initiatives
would best prevent the unauthorized disclosure of private information
while also promoting business innovation?

March 13-14 2004

Stanford Law School

As individuals do more – shopping, talking,
working – on-line, they leave private information behind in
databases stored on Internet-connected servers. Companies store
proprietary data on networked servers connected to the Internet.
Computer security experts struggle to develop technology and best
practices to protect this information from unauthorized intruders
or inadvertent leaks. Are private initiatives sufficient to protect
private and confidential information, or should the law allocate
the responsibility of keeping the server secure, and if so, on whom?
And will the imposition of this legal and economic burden impede
further exponential advances like those the computer industry has
made in the past decade?

The
Law, Science and Technology Program (LST) and the Center
for Internet and Society (CIS) at Stanford
Law School invite you to join us at a symposium where the speakers will present papers that address the ways
in which application of various legal doctrines could induce software
vendors, hardware companies and system administrators to adopt security-enhancing
practices, report unauthorized disclosures of private information,
properly value and remedy harm flowing from privacy breaches, while
promoting vigorous competition and innovation.