Professor Mark McKenna will host a Data Security Conference at Notre Dame Law School on February 24, 2017.
Modern technology enables the collection and use of many types of data for a wide range of purposes. Many of those uses are enormously beneficial. But the era of big data comes with substantial risks to privacy, particularly as data breaches proliferate. The conference will focus on legal and ethical issues in data security, with a particular focus on institutional design and regulatory strategy.
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Participants will include:
Danielle Citron, Morton & Sophia Macht professor of law, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Ryan Harkins, director of state affairs and public policy, Microsoft Corp.
Woodrow (Woody) Hartzog, W. Stancil Starnes Professor of Law, Samford Law School Cumberland School of Law
Justin (Gus) Hurwitz, assistant professor of law and co-director of the Space, Cyber, and Telecom Law Program, University of Nebraska College of Law
Andrea Matwyshyn, professor of law, Northeastern Univeristy School of Law
William (Bill) McGeveran, associate professor and Solly Robins Distinguished Research Fellow, University of Minnesota School of Law
Walter Sheirer, assistant professor of engineering, University of Notre Dame
Scott Shackelford, associate professor of business law and ethics, Indiana University Kelley School of Business
David Thaw, assistant professor of law and information sciences, University of Pittsburgh