Symposium examines legal issues in government access to cloud data
Hosted by the Information Law Institute and the Center on Law and Security, the "Symposium on Government Access to Data in the Cloud" presented cutting-edge research on domestic, international and transnational legal approaches to regulating government access to data stored in the cloud. Legal scholars joined with participants who brought law enforcement, industry, privacy advocacy and human rights perspectives to bear on the important and often contentious debate about this rapidly evolving issue. View the full video and list of symposium participants below.
Panel 1: Searches vs. Subpoenas in the Digital Context
Panelists:
Bryan Choi, New York Law School
David Gray, University of Maryland, Francis King Carey School of Law
Christopher Slobogin, Vanderbilt Law School
Katherine Strandburg, NYU School of Law
Moderator:
Jeramie Scott, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
Panel 2: Data? Metadata? Third Party Data?
Panelists:
Laura Donohue, Georgetown Law
Kiel Brennan-Marquez, Information Society Project, Yale Law School
Stephen Henderson, University of Oklahoma, College of Law
Susan Freiwald, University of San Francisco, School of Law
Olivier Sylvain, Fordham Law School
Moderator:
Andrew Selbst, US Court of Appeals
Panel 3: On the Ground Perspectives on the Application of US Surveillance Law to Data in the Cloud
Panelists:
Alan Butler, Electronic Privacy Information Center
Nathan Judish, Department of Justice
Patrick Toomey, America Civil Liberties Union
Andrew Schaffer, NYU School of Law
Facilitator:
Andrew Weissmann, Department of Justice
Panel 4: Human Rights Issues in Transnational Data Access
Panelists:
Ryan Goodman, NYU School of Law
Michael Posner, NYU Stern School of Business
Faiza Patel, Brennan Center for Justice
Facilitator:
Zachary Goldman, NYU School of Law
Panel 5: Extraterritorial Application of U.S. Law to the Cloud
Panelists:
Jennifer Daskal, American University Washington College of Law
Peter Swire, Georgia Tech, Scheller College of Business
Andrew Woods, University of Kentucky, College of Law
Michael Farbiarz, NYU School of Law
Moderator:
Daphna Renan, Harvard Law School
Panel 6: Transnational and Foreign Law Perspectives on Cloud Access
Panelists:
Joris Van Hoboken, NYU School of Law
Ahmed Ghappour, UC Hastings College of Law
Ira Rubinstein, NYU School of Law
Samuel Rascoff, NYU School of Law
Moderator:
Richard Morgan, NYU School of Law
Panel 7: Perspectives on Transnational Data Access - Government, Civil Society, and Corporate Views
Panelists:
Nate Jones, Microsoft
James Garland, Covington & Burling
Michael Price, Brennan Center for Justice
Kate Westmoreland, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School
Mick Stawasz, Deputy Chief for Computer Crime, Department of Justice
