IP: NTIA meeting on Privacy Self-Reg'n 23-24 June 98

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

[http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/privacy/confinfo/agenda.htm]


U.S. Department of Commerce 
National Telecommunications and Information Administration 
(NTIA)  Office of International Affairs


        PRIVACY AGENDA - DAY 1


June 23, 1998


9:00 - 9:30 
Welcoming remarks - Secretary Daley 
  
9:30 - 11:15 
Setting the Stage for Thinking Out of the Box. Panel, 
consisting of technologists, privacy advocates, industry reps 
will look at three scenarios - online browsing, e-mail and 
online commercial transactions. In each case panelists will be 
asked to discuss (1) what personal information is available at 
specific points in the transaction, and to whom, (2) what 
implications (benefits and risks) flow from the availability of 
that personal information, and (3) what law, regulation, 
self-regulation or technology is available, if any, to protect 
that personal information.  Moderator: Arthur Miller (tentative 
acceptance) 


10:15-11:30 Break 


11:30 - 12:30 
Children's Privacy Roundtable. Following the format of the 
previous session, panelists will discuss issues specific to the 
protection of children's privacy. Subjects will include issues 
of parental consent to collection of children's information, 
explanation of privacy policies to children, the level of 
effectiveness, or lack thereof, of current children's' privacy 
policies, and special challenges to children's privacy 
presented by the online environment. Moderator/Panelists: TBD 


12:30 - 1:00 
Presentation of Survey Results - Privacy and the Elements of 
Self Regulation  Professor Alan Westin will present the results 
of survey conducted jointly with Louis Harris on public 
concerns about privacy and perceptions about the ability of 
self regulation to protect privacy in personal information. Add 
other surveys (Georgia Tech, Business Week) 


1:00 - 2:30 Lunch 


2:30 - 4:00 
Elements of Effective Self Regulation. The DOC Staff Paper on 
the Elements of Effective Self Regulation for Protection of 
Privacy will be presented and discussed by a panel including 
public interest/consumer advocacy interests, business, Internet 
users and government personnel with expertise in 
self-regulatory systems.  Moderator: Peter Swire 


4:00 - 4:30 Break 


4:30 - 6:00 
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Self Regulation. Presentation, 
followed by peer review, of proposed methodology/ies for 
assessing compliance with the elements of effective self 
regulation, fair information practices (including awareness, 
choice, data security and consumer access) and enforcement 
(including consumer recourse, verification and consequences, 
internal mechanisms for implementing company privacy policies, 
third party verification and dispute resolution mechanisms).  
Moderator: Bob Gellman


        PRIVACY AGENDA - DAY 2


June 24, 1998
  
9:00 - 12:30 
Industry/Sector Presentation. Companies and industry trade 
associations will present progress reports on the development 
and implementation of self regulation mechanisms. Presenters 
will discuss how the self regulation system fulfills the 
requirements set forth in the "Elements of Effective Self 
Regulation for Privacy," and how the particular company or 
trade sector has tailored its self regulation mechanism to 
reflect the nature of the data, the nature of the consumer, and 
the kind of business the company or industry engages in.  
Sectoral Presentations, each 20 minutes followed by 10 minute 
responses: Financial Service Sector (Finances, Insurance, 
Securities), Internet Infrastructure, Publishers/Content 
Providers, Marketing/Advertising, Children, Alliance, others? 


12:30-2:00 Lunch 


2:00-3:30 
Technologies. Presentation of technological tools to protect 
privacy, including contracting mechanisms (P3P, OPS), and 
control of identity technologies (crypto, cookie crunchers, 
anonymizer). Follow-on discussion.  Moderators: Esther Dyson, 
Elliott Maxwell 


3:30-3:45 Break 


3:45 - 4:45 
Consumer Education/Consumer Assistance. Panel discussion of 
role of consumer education in privacy self regulation and 
presentation of efforts underway to implement consumer 
education/assistance programs (e.g.  consumer education 
project; 1-800-PRIVACY, www.privacy.com).  Moderator: Maxine 
Sweet (Experian), TBD 


4:45-5:00 Concluding Remarks