The Future of Privacy in a Connected World

A Cross-Border Conversation


Please join us for an insightful discussion with key policymakers in the United States and the European Union on global privacy and data protection.

  • Julie Brill, Commissioner of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

  • Giovanni Buttarelli, European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS)

  • David Edelman, Special Assistant to the President for Economic and Technology Policy, National Economic Council, The White House.

The panel will be moderated by Lydia Parnes, Partner at WSGR and former director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection and Christopher Kuner, Senior Privacy Counsel at WSGR Brussels.

Our panel of experts will share their thoughts on the critical privacy issues currently subject to debate in the U.S. and the EU including:

  • Privacy regulation around big data, internet of things, and other developments in cutting-edge digital communications  
  • Recent changes in online privacy regulation and self-regulation
  • The latest news on the EU data protection regulation, and implications for US companies
  • The evolving legal climate around global privacy enforcement

We hope you can also join us for a networking reception following the discussion.


Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Registration — 3:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Program — 3:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Networking Reception — 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.

Garden Court Hotel
520 Cowper Street
Palo Alto, CA

 

 

 

This activity has been approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education credit by the State Bar of California in the amount of 2 hours, all of which will apply to general credit. No hours will apply to legal ethics, competence issues and substance abuse, or to recognition and elimination of bias credit.

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