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The program for next month’s Computers, Freedom & Privacy conference on “Technology Policy ‘08“ has been posted and features an excellent array of tutorials, plenaries and panels:

Plenary Sessions

• Presidential Technology Policy: Priorities for the Next Executive
• The 21st Century Panopticon?
• The National Security State and the Next Adminstration

Tutorials

• A Short History of Privacy
• Constitutional Law in Cyberspace
• e-Deceptive Campaign Practices: Elections 2.0
• Maintaining Privacy While Accessing On-line Information

Panel Sessions

• Activism and Education Using Social Networks
• Breaking the Silence: Iranians Find a Voice on the Internet
• Charismatic Content: Wikis, Social Networks, and the Future of User-Generated Content
• Filtering Out Copyright Infringement: Possibilities, Practicalities, and Legalities
• Filtering and Censorship in Europe
• Hate Speech and Oppression in Cyberspace
• Interoperability at the Crossroads?: The “Liberal Order” versus Fragmentation
• Law, Regulation, and Software Licensing for the Electronic Medical Record
• Measuring Global Threats to Internet Freedom
• Network Neutrality: Beyond the Slogans
• New Challenges for Spyware Policy
• Patents: The Bleeding Edge of Technology Policy
• Privacy, Reputation, and the Management of Online Communities
• Rights & Responsibilities for Software Programs?
• States as Incubators of Change
• “The Transparent Society:” Ten Years Later
• Towards Trustworthy e-Voting: An Open Source Approach?

The “early bird” registration deadline is Fri., May 2, 2008. Hope to see you there.