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FTC Announces Agenda, Panelists for Facial Recognition Workshop
Researchers, industry representatives, consumer advocates, and privacy professionals will take part in the upcoming workshop, "Face Facts: A Forum on Facial Recognition Technology" to be held December 8, 2011 at the FTC Conference Center at 601 New Jersey Ave. N.W. in Washington, D.C.
The workshop, which is free and open to the public, will focus on commercial applications of facial detection and recognition technologies, exploring an array of current uses of this technology, possible future uses and benefits, and potential privacy and security concerns.
A webcast of the proceedings will be available here. Any updates to the agenda, included below, can be found at http://ftc.gov/bcp/workshops/facefacts/
Face Facts: A Forum on Facial Recognition Technology December 8, 2011 | ||
| 8:30 am | Registration | |
| 9:30 am | Welcome & Introductory Remarks: Chairman Jon Leibowitz | |
| 10:00 am | Panel 1 - Facial Detection & Recognition Technology: How Does It Work? | |
| Moderator: | Edward W. Felten, Chief Technologist, FTC | |
| Panelists: | Ralph Gross, Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University | |
| Dr. P. Jonathon Phillips, Electronic Engineer, NIST | ||
| 10:30 am | Break | |
| 10:45 am | Panel 2 - Facial Detection: Uses and Ramifications | |
| Moderators: | Mark Eichorn, Assistant Director, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, FTC | |
| Manas Mohapatra, Attorney, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, FTC | ||
| Panelists: | Fred Carter, Senior Policy & Technology Advisor, Information and Privacy Commissioner's Office, Ontario, Canada | |
| Andrew Cummins, Chief Strategy Officer, SceneTap | ||
| Harley Geiger, Policy Counsel, Center for Democracy and Technology | ||
| Beth Givens, Director, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse | ||
| Jai Haissman, Founder & CEO, Affective Interfaces | ||
| Brian Huseman, Senior Policy Counsel, Intel Corporation | ||
| 12:00 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:15 pm | Remarks: | Commissioner Julie Brill |
| 1:30 pm | Panel 3 - Facial Recognition: What's Possible Now and What Does the Future Hold? | |
| Moderators: | Amanda Koulousias, Attorneys, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, FTC | |
| Jessica Lyon, Attorneys, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, FTC | ||
| Panelists: | Alessandro Acquisti, Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University | |
| Chris Conley, Technology & Civil Liberties Fellow, ACLU of Northern California | ||
| Gil Hirsch, Co-founder and CEO, face.com | ||
| Benjamin Petrosky, Product Counsel, Google Inc. | ||
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| 2:45 pm | Break | |
| 3:00 pm | Panel 4 - Facial Detection & Recognition: Exploring the Policy Implications | |
| Moderators: | Maneesha Mithal, Associate Director, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, FTC | |
| Laureen Kapin, Counsel for International Consumer Protection Office of International Affairs, FTC | ||
| Panelists: | Joseph J. Atick, Ph.D., Vice Chairman, International Biometrics & Identification Association | |
| Daniel Caron, Legal Counsel, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada | ||
| Pam Dixon, Executive Director, World Privacy Forum | ||
| Erin Egan, Senior Privacy Advisor & Director, Privacy, Facebook | ||
| John Verdi, Senior Counsel, Electronic Privacy Information Center | ||
| Dr. Simon Rice, Principal Policy Adviser (Technology), Information Commissioner's Office, United Kingdom | ||
| Daniel J. Solove, John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School | ||
| 4:30 pm | Closing Remarks: | Jessica Rich, Deputy Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, FTC |
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