Abstract Submission Deadline: February 27, 2012.

Paper Submission Deadline: March 5, 2012

For more information see the conference website.

• a resume;
• a brief letter (no more than 2 pages) describing the applicant's interest in issues applying technology to the law, the applicant's background, and the research that they propose to conduct;
• a list of references;


Abstract Submission Deadline: February 27, 2010

Paper Submission Deadline: March 6, 2010

For more information see the conference website.

Unlocking and harvesting value embedded in personal information can lead to disclosure of private information and subsequent harm. Business practices for personal information management are subject to privacy law; however law is jurisdiction based and information is typically collected across different economies with a wide range of cultural attitudes, social norms, business practices and legal frameworks for privacy.
        The symposium will focus on novel strategic and intelligent multidisciplinary approaches to information privacy management. It will develop a better understanding of the underlying tension between transparency and disclosure in the privacy verses business strategy arena. There is a significant and growing need to use intelligent technology-enabled tools and techniques to assist users to monitor and manage their personal information and its usage in a more transparent proactive fashion.

        Individuals possess a digital footprint that applications can discover and exploit. Individuals can be advantaged by increased the relevance of services offered, however if privacy is not adequately protected then personal information is disclosed and privacy compromised.
         The underlying nature of the web and how it is used has changed dramatically over the last decade creating a profound need for smarter more effective privacy management. There are major advantages in pursuing a best practices approach because personal information flows that respect privacy promote sustainable innovation in technology-enabled services. Trust plays an important role in privacy management and without trust consumers avoid engagement, they minimize or falsify responses, and as result business opportunities are missed, and innovation is retarded.

Topics include:
•    Privacy Leadership and Governance
•    Privacy Principles, Policies and Procedures
•    Privacy Requirements
•    Privacy Management Best Business Practice
•    Information Privacy Protection
•    Information Privacy Law
•    Privacy and Information Aggregation and Integration
•    Privacy Codes of Practice
•    Personally Identifiable Information
•    Privacy Related Laws and Global Issues
•    Intelligent Privacy Management Technologies
•    Privacy in Social Networks and Recommender Systems
•    The Role of Trust and Risk Management in Privacy Protection


Organizing Committee

Michael Genesereth
Center for Computers and Law
Stanford University, USA                                   
eMail: genesereth@stanford.edu

Mary-Anne Williams
Innovation and Enterprise Research Laboratory
University of Technology, Sydney Australia                             
eMail:  mary-anne@it.uts.edu.au


Important Dates

    * Submission deadline: October 2, 2009 (11:59pm in San Francisco)
    * Notification date: November 6, 2009
    * Camera ready submission deadline (accepted papers): December 15, 2009
       Registration Opens: February 26, 2010
    * Symposium: March 22-24, 2010

What steps must organizations take to demonstrate that their software systems and data practices comply with government laws and regulations?

Over the past several decades, we have experienced tremendous growth in new infrastructure, business practices, products and services that use information to achieve stakeholder goals. Recent compliance challenges include electronic voting, patient medical records, corporate governance and national identification cards. To address similar challenges, this growth has drawn the attention of regulators, lawyers, engineers and academics in a shared pursuit to understand the historical and social impact of existing laws and regulations on emerging technology. The costs to brand, infrastructure and the public of violating the law are often prohibitive and the challenges to ensure that software systems comply with the law are viewed differently by those involved.
The First International Workshop on Requirements Engineering and Law is a multi-disciplinary, one-day workshop that will bring together practitioners and researchers from government, industry and academia to investigate challenges to ensuring that software systems comply with the law. The workshop will probe important issues, including the processes for identifying relevant laws and jurisdictions, aligning laws with system requirements, managing requirements and changes in the law and demonstrating how systems comply with relevant laws through evidence-based mechanisms such as documentation, testing and certification.
For further information see the workshop website.

The conference brings together experts in the legal and legal informatics fields for a series of tutorials and paper presentations. On October 9, Professor Dan L. Burk of the University of Minnesota Law School will deliver the keynote speech on "Owning Avatars: Legal Control of Human and Non-human Data Representations."

For the complete program, and details on conference registration, visit http://www.iasted.org/conferences/home-545.html.