[nettime-lat] Privacy Lecture Series - Smartcards and Biometrics, Dec. 3,2001

[Ana Viseu <ana.viseu@utoronto.ca>]

PRIVACY LECTURE SERIES
<http://privacy.openflows.org>


PANEL DISCUSSION

SMART CARDS and BIOMETRICS: AN APPROPRIATE ANSWER TO TERRORISM?


Monday, December 3, 2001
6:00-7:30PM

140 St. George, Room 205 (NEW ROOM)
Faculty of Information Studies  (building adjacent to Robarts Library)
University of Toronto

The lectures are free of charge and you do NOT have to register.

This panel was developed in collaboration with PC3 Village 
<http://www.pc3village.org> and Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI) 
<http://www.kmdi.utoronto.ca/> and will be webcasted.



Abstract:

Both in Canada and internationally, governments are proposing massive 
spending on deployment of technologies like digital identity smart cards, 
facial recognition detectors, eye scanners and closed circuit televisions. 
The rationale has been that these technologies will inhibit terrorism. 
Social critics suggest that there is little to no evidence to support such 
a claim and that quite the contrary, these technologies may only compromise 
citizens' privacy rights while doing little to address terrorism.

A panel of leading experts in these technologies will explain in plain 
language how the technologies work, what they were designed to do, what 
their limits are and what policies need to be in developed in any deployment.




Panel moderator:

Monica C. Schraefel <http://www.dgp.utoronto.ca/~mc/>, Dept. of Computer 
Science, University of Toronto.




Panel participants:

Andrew Clement, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto

Kelly Gotlieb, Professor Emeritus, Computer Science, University of Toronto

Peter Hope-Tindall, Privacy Architect, dataPrivacy Partners

George Tomko, Chairman, Photonics Research Ontario, Ontario Center of 
Excellence





Panelist Bios:


Dr. Andrew Clement is a Professor in the Faculty of Information Studies at 
the University of Toronto, and holds a status position in the Department of 
Computer Science. He has recently become the Director of the Collaborative 
Program in Knowledge Media Design.

His research and teaching interests are in the social implications of 
information technology and the participatory design of information systems. 
Currently, his research focuses on information policy development and in 
particular on the development of smart card identification schemes and 
community oriented internet access initiatives. He coordinates the 
Information Policy Research Program (see 
http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/research/iprp/ ).

Dr. Clement is the Canadian representative to the International Federation 
for Information Processing (IFIP) technical committee on Computers and 
their Relation to Society (TC9), as well as a long standing member of 
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR). Under the auspices 
of CPSR has has recently co-authored National Identification Schemes (NIDS) 
and the Fight against Terrorism: Frequently Asked Questions (see: 
http://www.cpsr.org/).

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Calvin C. (Kelly) Gotlieb has been called the "Father of Computing" in 
Canada. He received his MA in 1944 and his PhD in 1947 from the University 
of Toronto. In 1948, he was part of the first team in Canada assembled to 
design and construct digital computers and to provide computing services. 
In that year, he co-founded the original Computation Centre at the 
University of Toronto. He established the first university credit course on 
computing in Canada in 1950, and offered the first Canadian graduate 
courses in computing in 1951. In 1964, he founded the first graduate 
department of Computer Science in Canada, at the University of Toronto.

Professor Gotlieb is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the British 
Computer Society and the Association for Computing Machinery. He received 
honorary DMath and DEng degrees from the University of Waterloo and the 
Technical University of Nova Scotia respectively. In 1994, he was awarded 
the Isaac L. Auerbach Medal by the International Federation of Information 
Processing Societies, and in 1996 the Order of Canada award. He is 
currently Professor Emeritus in Computer Science and in the Faculty of 
Information Studies at the University of Toronto.

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Peter Hope-Tindall is the Chief Privacy Architect (dataPrivacy Partners Ltd.)

Mr. Hope-Tindall is Technical Director and Chief privacy Architect of 
dataPrivacy Partners Ltd., one of Canada's leading privacy consulting 
firms. Formerly, he was special advisor to the Information and Privacy 
Commissioner/Ontario for biometrics and cryptography where he conducted 
privacy audits and assessments and monitored the development of large 
government systems having a significant privacy component. Mr. Hope- 
Tindall also represented the province of Ontario at Industry Canada's 1998 
encryption policy roundtable from which the template for Canada's National 
Encryption Policy arose.

Mr. Hope-Tindall is presently providing Privacy Architect services to the 
Ontario Smart Card Project.

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George Tomko is Chairman of Photonics Research Ontario, an Ontario Center 
of Excellence comprising researchers from Ontario universities and research 
institutes with the mandate to develop optical and photon based 
technologies. Dr. Tomko founded Mytec Technologies, Inc. in 1987 where he 
invented the privacy enhancing technology of Biometric Encryption. He 
served as President and CEO until September, 1996 and Chairman and Chief 
Scientific Officer until December, 1997.

Prior to founding Mytec, Dr.Tomko was a co-founder of Counterforce, Inc.; 
Vice-President and General Manager of Chubb Security Systems; and a 
researcher-lecturer at the University of Toronto. He also served in the 
Canadian Armed Forces (Royal Canadian Navy) for ten years, attaining the 
rank of Captain. Dr. Tomko has a B.A.Sc. in engineering physics, a M.A.Sc. 
in electrical engineering, and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University 
of Toronto.






To register for the Privacy Lecture Series announcement email list please 
go to <http://privacy.openflows.org>

The Privacy Lecture Series is co-sponsored by the Knowledge Media Design 
Institute (KMDI) <http://www.kmdi.utoronto.ca/> and the Information Policy 
Research Program (IPRP) <http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/research/iprp/>

The Privacy Lecture Series is organized by:

Ana Viseu, a researcher currently working at the University of Toronto on 
her Ph.D. dissertation which focuses on the development and implementation 
of wearable computers. Her research interests include questions of privacy, 
social dimensions of technology, and the mutual adaptation processes 
between individuals and technology. Ana holds a Master's Degree in 
Interactive Communication from the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, 
Spain. <http://fcis.oise.utoronto.ca/~aviseu>



For more info contact:
Ana Viseu <ana.viseu@utoronto.ca>


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