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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 17:05:06 PDT
From: "(Nikki Draper)" <draper@CSLI.STANFORD.EDU>
Subject: File 3--FBI Wiretap Scheme Examined
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Nikki Draper (415) 322-3778
Computer Public Advocacy Group To Examine FBI Wiretap Scheme
at October Annual Meeting.
Palo Alto, Calif., October 1, 1992 -- Computer Professionals for
Social Responsibility (CPSR), the national public interest
organization based here, will take an in-depth look at its recent suit
against the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) during CPSR's 1992
Annual Meeting, October 17th and 18th at Stanford University in Palo
Alto, Calif. CPSR Legal Counsel, David Sobel, will talk about the FBI
suit for the first time since it was filed and moderate a panel
discussion on the politics of cryptography at the annual meeting. The
CPSR annual meeting is a provocative two-day conference that addresses
critical issues facing society as a result of information technology.
CPSR filed suit against the FBI in September, after the Bureau failed
to make public documents that would justify the need for its new
wiretap proposal. The FBI proposal would redesign the telephone
network to make wiretapping easier. Recognizing the importance of
cryptography policy, CPSR catalyzed a national debate earlier this
year, as to whether or not the FBI and National Security Agency (NSA)
should be involved in setting the technical standards for the computer
and communications industry.
The panel discussion will include a screening and discussion of film
clips from the movie, Sneakers. Panelists include, Joan Feigenbaum,
Technical Staff, Computing Principles Research, ATT Bell Labs, John
Gilmore, founder of Cygnus Support, and Dave Banisar, CPSR Policy
Analyst.
CPSR's annual meeting will bring together computer scientists from
across the country to examine the relationship between politics and
technology. Other topics include:
* Teledemocracy & Citizen Participation:
Beyond the Electronic Town Meeting,
This session is an election year look at the dangers and the
opportunities of electronic democracy. Speaker, Susan G. Hadden,
professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at
Austin, an expert on telecommunications and citizen participation.
* Everything's Digital! Media Convergence: Hope, Hype or Hell?
This session examines the social implications of multimedia
convergence which is the merging of computer, telephone, and video
technology. Panel discussion with David Bunnell, Editor, New Media,
Denise Caruso, Editor, Digital Media, and Howard Rheingold, Whole
Earth Review
* Envisioning Technology Policy in a Democratic Society;
A panel of technologists looks at the development of American
technology policy. Panelists include, Gary Chapman, The 21st Century
Project, Judy Stern, CPSR/Berkeley, Claire Zvanski, SEIU Local 790.
President of Interval Research, Dave Liddle, will be the keynote
speaker at CPSR's awards banquet Saturday evening. Liddle will be
speaking on the Computing in the 21st Century. IBM researcher,
Barbara Simons will be presented with the 1992 Norbert Wiener Award
for Social and Professional Responsibility in Computing.
Founded in 1981, CPSR is a national, non-profit, public interest
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