6 September 1999

[Circulate until October 15, 1999]

### The Tenth Conference on Computers Freedom and Privacy

## CFP2000: CHALLENGING THE ASSUMPTIONS

http://www.cfp2000.org

The Westin Harbour Castle Hotel
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
April 4-7, 2000
___________________________

### CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

The Program Committee of the Tenth Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP2000) is seeking proposals for conference sessions and speakers.

For the past decade, CFP has played a major role in the public debate on the future of privacy and freedom in the online world. The CFP audience is as diverse as the Net itself, with attendees not only from government, business, education, and non-profits, but also from the community of computer professionals, hackers, crackers and engineers who work the code of cyberspace. The themes have been broad and forward-looking. CFP explores what will be. It is the place where the future is mapped.

The theme of the tenth CFP conference is 'Challenging the Assumptions'. After a decade of CFP conferences, it's time to examine what we have learned. "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" has become a cliche, but we've learned that unless we take measures to protect our identities, people can and do identify us on the Internet. We have talked about the role of government in cyberspace, and some have even suggested that the Net needs no government. But now that increasing numbers of people around the world are relying on the Internet not just as a marketplace of ideas, but the market where they conduct their daily business, the issue of governance has come to the forefront. And even where no rules have been imposed by governments, some argue that standards setters and technology implementers have imposed de facto rules. At CFP2000 we want to re-examine the assumptions we have been making and consider which ones still make sense as we move forward.

Proposals are welcomed on all aspects of computers, freedom, and privacy. We strongly encourage proposals that challenge the future, tackle the hard questions, look at old issues in new ways, articulate and analyze key assumptions, and present complex issues in all their complexity.

We are seeking proposals for tutorials, plenary sessions, workshops, and birds-of-a-feather sessions. We are also seeking suggestions for speakers and topics. Sessions should present a wide range of thinking on a topic by including speakers from different viewpoints. Complete submission instructions appear on the CFP2000 web site at

> http://www.cfp2000.org/submissions/.

All submissions must be received by October 15, 1999. The CFP2000 Program Committee will notify submitters of the status of their proposals by December 3.

Short papers and extended abstracts from the Workshop on Freedom and Privacy by Design, winning student papers, and papers by other conference presenters will be printed in the CFP2000 proceedings that will be distributed to all conference participants. All presenters will be invited to submit a short paper or position statement for the proceedings. In addition, plenary session organizers will be encouraged to submit a paper providing an overview of their session topic for the proceedings. The best original papers from the CFP2000 proceedings will be reviewed for publication in a special issue of The Information Society journal. Packages of position papers from panelists representing different sides of an issue will also be considered.

______________________________________

### Workshop on Freedom and Privacy by Design

On the first day of CFP2000 we will hold a workshop that explores using -technology- to bring about strong protections of civil liberties which are guaranteed by the technology itself---in short, to get hackers, system architects, and implementors strongly involved in CFP and its goals. Our exploration of technology includes (a) implemented, fielded systems, and (b) what principles and architectures should be developed, including which open problems must be solved, to implement and field novel systems that can be inherently protective of civil liberties.

We aim to bring together implementors and those who have studied the social issues of freedom and privacy in one room to generate ideas for systems that we should field, and implementation strategies for fielding them.

If you would like to participate, you must submit a short paper or extended abstract on some issue related to the workshop by November 12. Complete submission instructions are available at

> http://www.cfp2000.org/workshop/

______________________________________

### CFP Student Competition

Full time college or graduate students may compete for financial support to attend the conference and for cash prizes. Three $500 cash prizes will be awarded for the best paper, the best Web presentation, and the submission that best makes use of the vast trove of papers, audio, and video materials from the past ten years of Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conferences. Free CFP conference registrations and travel scholarships will be awarded to the top winners as well as for several honorable mentions. For full submission information, see

http://www.cfp2000.org/students/.

______________________________________

### CFP2000 PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Chair: Lorrie Cranor, AT&T Labs-Research

Ann Cavoukian, Information and Privacy Commissioner, Ontario, Canada

Roger Clarke, The Australian National University

Karen Coyle, California Digital Library

Chuck Cranor, AT&T Labs-Research

Lenny Foner, MIT Media Lab

Wendy Grossman, Freelance writer and author of net.wars

Bruce R. Koball, Technical Consultant

Susan Landau, Sun Microsystems

Shabbir Safdar, Mindshare Internet Campaigns

Pam Samuelson, University of California Berkeley

Ari Schwartz, Center for Democracy and Technology

David Singer, IBM

Barry Steinhardt, ACLU

Bruce Umbaugh, Webster University

FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT http://www.cfp2000.org/