2018 Cato Institute Surveillance Conference

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Date and Time

December 14, 2018 9 AM - 5:30 PM EST

Location

Hayek Auditorium, Cato Institute

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Julian Sanchez

Former Senior Fellow

Gene Healy

Senior Vice President for Policy, Cato Institute

Michael Glennon

Professor, Tufts University

Susan Hennessey

Kate Martin

April Falcon Doss

Patrick G. Eddington

Senior Fellow, Cato Institute

Sharon Bradford Franklin

Rachel Levinson-Waldman

Jake Laperruque

Deputy Director, Security and Surveillance Project, Center for Democracy and Technology

Dave Maass

Jennifer Daskal

Heather West

Andrew Ferguson

Hannah Quay-de la Vallee

Matthew Feeney

Head of Technology and Innovation, Centre for Policy Studies

Alexandra Galloway

David Lieber

Jesse Franzblau

Matthew Green

Spencer Ackerman

Author, Contributing Editor, Daily Beast

Olivia Martin

Jack Gillum

Julian Sanchez

Former Senior Fellow

The legendary spymaster James Jesus Angleton called the world of intelligence a “wilderness of mirrors,” and rarely has that description seemed as apt as it does in 2018. President Donald Trump rails against a “deep state” embedded within the very intelligence agencies over which he now presides—even as former intelligence leaders claim that it’s Trump who has sought to politicize intelligence. In U.S. v. Carpenter, the Supreme Court handed down a seminal Fourth Amendment ruling that could dramatically reshape electronic privacy law—but what it will mean in practice remains radically uncertain. Meanwhile, technology companies ranging from social media platforms to manufacturers of the connected devices that constitute the “Internet of Things” have struggled with how to balance users’ privacy against their own business interests and the surveillance demands of governments around the world.

Join the Cato Institute—and an array of top experts, technologists, and policymakers—for a probing examination of these issues and many more as we seek to navigate the wilderness.

Schedule

9:00 — 9:05AM	WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION Julian Sanchez, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute
9:05 — 10:20AM	DONALD TRUMP AND THE “DEEP STATE” Michael Glennon, Tufts University Susan Hennessey, Brookings Institution & Lawfare Kate Martin, Center for American Progress April Falcon Doss, Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP Patrick Eddington, Moderator, Cato Institute Download the Video of the Event Download the Podcast of the Event
10:20 — 10:35AM	COFFEE BREAK
10:35 — 12:00PM	FLASH TALKS Looking for a Backdoor Down Under: Australia’s War on Encryption Sharon Bradford Franklin, New America Who’s Watching the Kids: Social Media Surveillance of Students Rachel Levinson-Waldman, Brennan Center for Justice A Million Little Eyes: Building Networks for Facial Recognition Surveillance Jake LaPerruque, Project on Government Oversight Spot the Surveillance: A Virtual Reality Tool Dave Maass, Electronic Frontier Foundation Low-Hanging Fruit: Evidence-Based Solutions to the Digital Evidence Challenge Jennifer Daskal, American University Download the Video of the Event Download the Podcast of the Event
12:00 — 1:15PM	LUNCH
1:15 — 1:30PM	FLASH TALKS Privacy Not Included: Rating the Creep-Factor of Networked Appliances Heather West, Mozilla
1:30 — 2:45PM	PANOPTICON OF THINGS: NETWORKED APPLIANCES AS SURVEILLANCE DEVICES Andrew Ferguson, University of the District of Columbia Hannah Quay-de la Vallee, Center for Democracy and Technology Heather West, Mozilla Matthew Feeney, Moderator, Cato Institute Download the Video of the Event Download the Podcast of the Event
2:45 — 3:45PM	FLASH TALKS Watching the Watchers—Facebook Transparency Edition Alexandra Galloway, Facebook Watching the Watchers—Google Transparency Edition David Lieber, Google Watching the Watchers—FOIA Transparency Edition Jesse Franzblau, Open the Government New Proposals for Law Enforcement Access to Encrypted Communications Matthew Green, Johns Hopkins University Download the Video of the Event Download the Podcast of the Event
3:45 — 4:00PM	BREAK
4:00 — 5:15PM	SECURING JOURNALISM IN AN AGE OF SURVEILLANCE Spencer Ackerman, Daily Beast Olivia Martin, Freedom of the Press Foundation Rob Mahoney, Committee to Protect Journalists Jack Gillum, ProPublica Julian Sanchez, Moderator, Cato Institute
5:15 — 5:30PM	CLOSING REMARKS Julian Sanchez, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute Download the Video of the Event Download the Podcast of the Event
5:30PM	RECEPTION AND TOUR OF “TREVOR PAGLEN: SITES UNSEEN” EXHIBITION AT THE SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM

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