Academic Conference on ICT Industry Self-Regulation & Human Rights

If Google censors your blog post or surveils your email, the First and Fourth Amendments do not apply, because Google is not a state actor. The Global Network Initiative, for the past five years, has brought together the world's leading ICT companies–Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Facebook, among others–to commit themselves to principles of self-regulation to protect users' privacy and free speech rights. How well has this initiative–and others like it–succeeded? What are the challenges ahead for ICT industry self-regulation? GW Law's Global Internet Freedom & Human Rights Project, co-directed by Profs. Arturo Carrillo and Dawn Nunziato, hosts an Experts Panel on ICT Industry Policy Making on Free Expression and Privacy, to discuss these issues. A reception follows.

Agenda 

"Experts Panel: ICT Industry Policy Making on Free Expression and Privacy"

Panelists

• Jermyn Brooks, Outgoing Chair, Global Network Initiative
• Leslie Harris, President Emeritus, Center for Democracy and Technology
• Rebecca MacKinnon, Project Lead, Ranking Digital Rights
• Chris Soghoian,Principal Technologist and a Senior Policy Analyst, ACLU Speech, Privacy and Technology Project

Moderator: Professor Dawn C. Nunziato