November 3, 2017
NYU School of Law
Abstract: The election of Donald Trump is widely expected to bring a dramatic retreat from Obama administration support for privacy regulation at the federal level. Republican commissioners on the Federal Communications Commission have already indicated their intention to pursue reversal of many Obama administration policies and last April the President signed legislation repealing the FCC privacy rule. With such changes underway, state and local regulators, particularly those in populous “blue” states, such as New York, California and Washington, are poised to take on an increasingly important role. Recent local initiatives include draft ordinances that require local police departments to publish surveillance impact reports describing the capabilities and safeguards of powerful new surveillance technologies as a condition of deploying them. City officials are also paying more attention to the data privacy implications of smart city initiatives. At the state-level, officials are resisting requests by the Trump administration to access state voter registration databases. Academic experts on administrative law, privacy, federalism, and local governance was joined by policymakers, industry representatives and privacy advocates to present and discuss a variety of perspectives on the legal, empirical and policy implications of this trend toward “privacy localism.”
Organizers: Katherine J. Strandburg (ILI Faculty), Ira Rubinstein (ILI Senior Fellow), Bilyana Petkova (ILI Fellow, Assistant Professor, Maastricht University)
Co-sponsors: Information Law Institute and Future of Privacy Forum
Program
8:30-9:00 Registration and Coffee
Opening Remarks from the Organizers
9:00-10:30 Panel 1: Privacy @ the City video
9:00-9:15 Federalism and Localism
Nestor Davidson, Fordham Urban Law Center
9:15-9:30 Urban Governance
Kathleen Morris, Golden Gate University Law School
9:30-9:45 Privacy Localism
Ira Rubinstein, NYU Information Law Institute
Commenters: Bilyana Petkova, NYU & Maastricht University and Daniel Francis, Harvard Climenko Fellow
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Panel 2: Local Governance of Policing, Surveillance and Data video
11:00-11:15 Local Policing and Surveillance
Andrew Ferguson, University of the District of Columbia
11:15-11:30 Federal Funding and Local Police Surveillance Technology
Catherine Crump, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology
Commenter: Maria Ponomarenko, NYU Policing Project
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 Panel 3: Big Data @ Smart Cities video
1:30-1:45 City Open Data: Projects and Policies
Jan Whittington, University of Washington Department of Urban Design & Planning
1:45-2:00 Smart Cities
Kelsey Finch, Future of Privacy Forum and International Association of Privacy Professionals
Commenter: Stefaan Verhulst, NYU Governance Laboratory
By Invitation Only:
3:00-5:30 Round Table with Local Administration, Civil Society and Privacy Professionals
Ginger Armbruster, Chief Privacy Officer, City of Seattle
Steffi Bryson, Senior Public Policy Associate, Uber
Alyssa Harvey Dawson, General Counsel, Sidewalk Labs
Miguel Gamiño, Jr., Chief Technology Officer, New York City Mayor’s Office of Technology and Innovation
Jeremy Heffner, Product Manager and Senior Data Scientist, HunchLab
Brian Hofer, Chair, City of Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission
Michael Price, Senior Counsel, Brennan Center's Liberty and National Security Program
Kara Selke, VP of Strategic Partners and Privacy, StreetLight Data
Moderator: Joel Reidenberg, Professor, Fordham University School of Law