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Governance issues for private data stores

by Prasad Krishna last modified Apr 04, 2014 10:30 AM
Malavika Jayaram is a speaker at this event co-hosted by Harvard Faculty Club and Web Science Trust at 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge on March 28, 2014.

Agenda

8.30: Introductory remarks - Meeting in the shadow of the Presidents 90 day plan for Big Data and Privacy: are we right to have a hopeful expectation that algorithms can resolve questions that algorithms pose?

  • Prof. Jim Waldo, CTO, Harvard University, Sun Distinguished Engineer
  • Prof. Andreas Weigend, Stanford University (past Chief Scientist Amazon)

8.45 - 10.00: The network is always on: and you are always on the network.

  • The worker and the workplace - Anna Burger (past Secretary Treasurer, SEIU)/Carol Rose, Director Ma., ACLU
  • Personalised messages - targeted advertising - George Pappachen (WPP) /Mike Smith (Hearst Corpn.)
  • Sensor sensibility:Smart metering/Transport/Home - Yves Alexandre de Montjoye, MIT /John Taysom
  • Personal medicine - John Wilbanks, Chief Commons Officer, Sage Bionetworks, Senior Fellow, Ewing
  • Marion Kaufman Foundation
  • Education - Prof. Jim Waldo, CTO Harvard
  • National Security - Dr. Malavika Jayaram, Berkman Centre, Harvard, The Indian national id system.

10.00-10.15: Coffee

10.15 - 11.30: The dual nature of the web - publisher and data gatherer

Is the problem a web protocol problem? Is there a protocol solution?
Brendan Eich, CEO Mozilla
Steve MacBeath Product Lead, Microsoft Personal Cloud
John Taysom, Can we build a DMZ for individual id information?

11.30 - 12.30: Governance systems for private data stores - what wont work, and what might?

  • An example of multi-generational national asset management : Sir Henry Studholme, Chair, UK Forestry Commission.
  • Mozilla.com and Mozilla.org - Denelle Dixon-Thayer, GC Mozilla
  • DigiTrust - Jordan Mitchell

12.30: working lunch: Privacy as a competitive advantage

  • The Microsoft view - Steve MacBeath
  • The Mozilla view - Brendan Eich
  • The SalesForce view - JPRangaswami, Chief Scientist, Salesforce.com

1.30 - 2.15: Essential additional policy considerations

  • Is “privacy” anyway the wrong target - did we really mean “intimacy”? Dorothy Zinberg, Harvard/ How would we police privacy policies anyway? Adam Towvim, TrustLayers
  • AOB from the floor

2.15 - 2.30: Interim Conclusions - John Taysom

2.30 - 3.00: Discussion and critique of interim conclusions - Prof. Nico Mele, Harvard/ Prof. Dame Wendy Hall, WST

3.00- 3.30: Conclusions and proposed draft recommendations - J Taysom

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