Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference

[1] Keynote speakers at CFP99 were Tim Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium,[3] Vint Cerf, president of the Internet Society[3][5] and FTC Commissioner Mozelle Thompson.

[3][10] Topics covered at CFP99 included: Anonymity;[6] Protection of children by parents and teachers, not government;[21] Fair use of copyrighted material;[8] Controls over the export of cryptography under the Wassenaar Arrangement;[14] Data mining and identity theft;[19] Encryption;[8] Free speech;[8] Government disclosure;[8] Human rights;[8] The link between privacy and free speech;[19] Discussion between MP3 activists, musicians and the recording industry;[12] Privacy and data protection by self-regulation or legislation?

There were five categories of award: Greatest Corporate Invader, Lifetime Menace, Most Invasive Program, People's Choice, and Worst Public Official.

[23] At CFP99 Electronic Frontier Foundation made the 1999 EFF Pioneer Awards to Drazen Pantic, Director of OpenNet, Internet provider to Belgrade radio station B92; posthumously to Jon Postel, who ran the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority; and Simon Davies, director of Privacy International.

The twenty-first annual CFP Conference in 2011, "Computers, Freedom, and Privacy: The Future is Now", was held at the Georgetown Law Center in Washington, DC June 14–16.

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