From: 1@eternity.demon.co.uk (Russell Earl Whitaker)
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 18:56:02 PDT
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Subject: CONFERENCE: European Computers, Freedom & Privacy (ECFP)
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ECFP '93:
The First European Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy

The New Cavendish Club
London, England

20th November 1993


Organised by ECFP Ventures Limited

Co-operating organisations :
  The Libertarian Alliance
  Privacy International, UK
  UK Cryptoprivacy Association


SCOPE
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The widespread use of computers and 
communication systems has brought considerable 
benefits to our business and personal lives and will 
continue to change and shape the way in which we 
live. However, with those benefits come unprecedented 
threats to our personal privacy and potential for abuse.

A variety of different models for protection of 
individual privacy in the electronic age have been 
suggested, ranging from state regulation to individual 
action through the use of strong cryptography. 
However, these solutions bring with them their own 
class of problems, including excessive state 
involvement in private matters and the frustration of 
law enforcement and national security objectives.

The First European Conference on Computers, 
Freedom and Privacy will both provide an introduction 
to these issues and the technological developments 
that drive them, and examine different ways in which 
individual rights can be guaranteed. These questions
are central to the preservation of a free society in the 
Information Age.

John M. Brimacombe
Conference Chair


KEYNOTE SPEAKER
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John Gilmore
Email: gnu@cygnus.com

JOHN GILMORE is Chairman of the Board of Cygnus
Support, who provide commercial support for free 
software. As founder and board member of the 
Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Cypherpunks, 
he has campaigned extensively for electronic privacy. 
John will speak on building a society in which 
personal privacy is guaranteed through the use of 
strong cryptography.



OTHER SPEAKERS
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John Brimacombe (Chairman)
Email: john@mantis.co.uk

JOHN BRIMACOMBE is the Managing Director of Jobstream Group
plc, developers of business software. A graduate in 
both law and computer science, he was an advisor to 
CFP '93 in San Francisco.  John will serve as conference
moderator.


Simon Davies
Email: davies@privint.demon.co.uk

SIMON DAVIES is Director General of Privacy International and
a member of the School of Law at the University of 
New South Wales.  He will be looking at new developments
in surveillance and ways of combating them.


Tom Burroughes
Email: tom@reptile.demon.co.uk (after 10 October 1993)

TOM BURROUGHES is Deputy Chief Reporter with the East Anglian Daily
Times in Ipswich, England. He will be giving a journalist's point
of view on privacy issues, including recent incidents involving
eavesdropping on cellular telephones, and the roles of various
corporate and government bodies in the recent adoption of
cellphone signal encryption standards in the UK.


David Chaum
Email: chaum@digicash.nl

DAVID CHAUM is head of the Cryptography Group at the Center for
Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) in Amsterdam, and
founder of DigiCash, which develops electronic payments systems.
Dr. Chaum received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of
California, Berkeley, in 1982, and joined CWI in 1984. He helped to
found the International Association for Cryptologic Research and
remains active on its board.  David also consults internationally on
cryptology.


Duncan Frissell
Email: frissell@panix.com

DUNCAN FRISSELL is an attorney, technical author and consultant
on matters of personal and financial privacy. Duncan will speak on
"Traditional Privacy in the Electronic Age".


Elaine Fletcher

ELAINE FLETCHER is Assistant Solicitor for Eric James Howe,
Data Protection Registrar (UK). Elaine will
speak on issues arising from the Data Protection 
regime established under the 1984 Data Protection Act.


Chris Tame

CHRIS TAME is the Director of the Libertarian Alliance
and Director of the smokers rights group FOREST, as well as UK
representative of the Libertarian International.  He
has written extensively for such academic journals as /Science
and Public Policy/, /Economic Affairs/, and /The Jewish Journal
of Sociology/, and such books as *The Case For Private
Enterprise* and *The Politics of Crime Control*. He appears
regularly on radio and television in the UK.  Chris will speak on the
libertarian views of data protection and privacy.


Russell Whitaker
Email: whitaker@eternity.demon.co.uk

RUSSELL WHITAKER, conference co-organiser, is a consultant
on electronic communications, a director of ECFP Ventures Ltd and
communications editor of Extropy magazine.  Russell will
speak on the composition of, and influences upon, the electronic
community in Britain today, and how public policy affects those
on computer bulletin boards and online services.



PROGRAMME
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Registration       9.30 - 10.00 am

First session     10.00 - 11.30 am
  BREAK           11.30 - 11.50 am

Second session    11.50 am - 1.20 pm
  BREAK            1.20 - 2.20 pm

Third session      2.20 - 3.50 pm
  BREAK            3.50 - 4.10 pm

Fourth session     4.10 - 5.40 pm

PANEL SESSION      5.40 - 6.20 pm
Closing remarks    6.20 - 6.30 pm


Lunchtime is the break after the second session, and lunch
itself is not included in the price of the conference.  There
are pubs and restaurants in the immediate vicinity.

Coffee, tea and biscuits will be on sale through the day, however.


Registration form:
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NAME                _____________________________________

JOB TITLE           _____________________________________

ORGANISATION/AFFILIATION        _________________________

              ___________________________________________


MAILING ADDRESS     _____________________________________

     ____________________________________________________

     ____________________________________________________

     ____________________________________________________


TELEPHONE     ___________________________________________

FAX           ___________________________________________

E-MAIL        ___________________________________________


IMPORTANT NOTE: only *fully* completed forms with full telephonic
details will be accepted, to be used in the event of any
emergency changes, such as change of venue.

This is not optional.


CLASS OF REGISTRATION :
[Prices are Pounds Sterling]

   Student                         10.00  ($16.00 U.S.)
   Normal                          17.50  ($28.00 U.S.)
     Normal before 1 Nov 93:       15.00  ($24.00 U.S.)
   Press                           (Contact for arrangements)

MEANS OF PAYMENT:

   - U.S. cheques/cash
   - U.K. cheques/cash
   - EuroCheques (tm)

Unfortunately, due to bank conversion charges, we are unable to
accept cheques drawn on other overseas accounts, for payment of
this year's attendance fees.


PROCEEDINGS AND AUDIO/VIDEOGRAPHY
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You may pre-order copies of transcripts of the proceedings,
which will be shipped within 90 days after the conference:

    "Please send me ____ copies of the conference
     proceedings at 20 pounds each."

Video and audio recordings will be made of the conference, in
its entirety.  No pre-sales will be made; tapes go on sale in
December 93/January 94.


Cheques, made payable to "ECFP Ventures Limited",
should be sent with this form to :
   16 Circus Road
   MM Box 8593
   London  NW8 6PG
   England

Please direct any further enquiries to the above address, or:
   ecfp-1st@eternity.demon.co.uk  (Email)
   +44 81-812-2661  (Manned message service; quick response)


HOW TO FIND THE NEW CAVENDISH CLUB :
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The New Cavendish Club is 2 minutes walk from Marble Arch
Underground station.  Immediately turn right as you exit from
the station onto Oxford Street.  Then take the first turning on
the right, i.e. Great Cumberland Street.  The New Cavendish Club
is 3 blocks north on the northeast corner of the intersection
of Great Cumberland Street with Upper Berkeley Street.
 
Address:
  New Cavendish Club
  44 Great Cumberland Place
  London W1H 8BS


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Russell Earl Whitaker                   whitaker@eternity.demon.co.uk
Communications Editor                                 AMiX: RWhitaker
EXTROPY: The Journal of Transhumanist Thought
Board member, Extropy Institute (ExI)
    Co-organizer, 1st European Conference on Computers, Freedom and
    Privacy, London, 20 November 1993