Previous Speakers from Spring 2021
March 2nd, 2021, 12-1pm CST
Prof Daniel J. Solove, “The Myth of the Privacy Paradox”
Prof Solove is the John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. One of the world’s leading experts in privacy law, Professor Solove has lectured at universities, companies, and government agencies around the world and been interviewed and quoted by the media in several hundred articles and broadcasts, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, the Associated Press, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and NPR. He is also the founder of TeachPrivacy, a privacy and cybersecurity training company. Solove is the author of numerous books, including Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security (Yale 2011), Understanding Privacy (Harvard 2008), and The Future of Reputation: Gossip and Rumor in the Information Age (Yale 2007). The Future of Reputation won the 2007 McGannon Award, and his books have been translated into Chinese, Italian, Korean, Japanese, and Bulgarian, among other languages.
April 2nd, 2021, 12-1pm CST
Ira Rubinstein and Prof Peter Margulies, “Risk and Rights in Transatlantic Data Transfers: EU Privacy Law, U.S. Surveillance, and the Search for Common Ground”
In this talk the authors will propose a risk-assessment method based on U.S. export controls, which have successfully managed exports of sensitive technology for decades. This model can also be a template for managing transfers of sensitive personal data. In addition, the hybrid model proposes bolstering substantive and institutional safeguards in U.S. law. For example, the Article proposes an Algorithmic Rights Court (ARC) that would probe targeting decisions under both § 702 and EO 12333. Through more precise risk assessment and reinforced institutional and substantive protections, the hybrid model preserves privacy and supports a sustainable transatlantic data transfer regime.
Ira Rubinstein is a Senior Fellow at the Information Law Institute. His research interests include Internet privacy, electronic surveillance law, big data, voters’ privacy, EU data protection law, and privacy engineering. Rubinstein lectures and publishes widely on issues of privacy and security and has testified before Congress on these topics on several occasions. Recent papers include “The Future of Self-Regulation is Co-Regulation,” “Anonymization and Risk,” and “Voter Privacy in the Age of Big Data.” Rubinstein has also completed a work in progress entitled “Privacy Localism.”
Professor Peter Margulies is an expert in National Security Law, he focuses on the delicate balance between liberty, equality, and security in issues involving law and terrorism. Professor Margulies has written almost a dozen articles discussing the War on Terror. He currently works with RWU Law Professor Jared Goldstein, along with litigators from the law firm Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, in representing two Afghan detainees. Professor Margulies led a national conference entitled “Legal Dilemmas in A Dangerous World: Law, Terrorism and National Security” held at RWU. He has written for the influential Lawfare blog and spoken at Harvard, Yale, and Columbia Law School on cybersecurity, privacy, and immigration. In addition, Professor Margulies has served as one of the lawyers for law professors and other “friends of the court” educating judges in leading cases, such as the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. Hawaii (2018) (the “Muslim ban” case). In Trump v. Hawaii, Professor Margulies supported a challenge to President Trump’s policy. The Supreme Court ultimately upheld the ban. President-elect Joe Biden has promised to cancel this and other Trump policies.
Monday May 3nd, 2021, 12-1pm CST
Lisa Bobbitt, “Privacy Engineering Development Process”
Lisa Bobbitt is the lead Privacy Engineering Architect in Cisco’s Privacy Office and she holds CISSP, CIPM, CIPP-E, CDPSE designation. Lisa is passionate about embedding privacy awareness, governance, and technology across Cisco by building on the foundation of years of working in mainframe connectivity, mobile routing protocols, innovative concepts in 3D, voice/video/data in event management, government adaptation of trustworthy systems and now privacy and data protection with a focus in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning and IoT. She believes everyone, as a digital citizen, should be a privacy advocate by first understanding the value of authorized use of our personally identifiable information and then applying controls to de-risk the potential harm to themselves and others. Lisa’s expertise and focus is on how we can embed privacy into our digitized world! Lisa is a self-driven innovative leader with extensive experience in networking and application product marketing and management, research and design, solution services management, sales technical support, development, and test and a heart for privacy. Lisa has a BS in Computer Science from North Carolina State University and an MBA from Duke University. Lisa lives in North Carolina with her husband where they enjoy its mountains, beach, and especially Lake Gaston, her hometown.
