$Id: cfpcfp.txt,v 1.7 2001/01/08 23:12:22 burton Exp $ BOF proposal: Title: OpenPrivacy Description: A short presentaion followed by informal discussion of the social and economic ramifications of OpenPrivacy, an Open Source, cryptographically secure, distributed platform for creating and maintaining a marketplace for anonymous demographic profiles. In effect, OpenPrivacy is the first open platform that allows user control over personal data while providing marketers with access to quality profile segments. Throughout the system, information may be shared with guaranteed personal privacy, creating a level playing field for the user, marketer and infomediary. The current project is an Open Source Reputation Server that supports attaching pseudonymous reputations (opinions) to objects securely and further, supports using these reputations to enhance users' interactions online. From: Fen: Fen Labalme is a primary developer of OpenPrivacy, an Open Source, cryptographically secure, transparent to the user, distributed platform for creating, maintaining, and selectively sharing profile information (e.g., a marketplace for anonymous demographic profiles). Since creating the first personalized information system in 1979 (NewsPeek, at the then-nascent MIT Media Lab), Fen has been continuously evolving his goal of privacy-enhanced personalization. As part of his research into personalized information, he coined the term broadcatch to describe a suite of "many-to-one" technologies designed to provide information the way people really want it: timely, trusted, and on target. Fen continued to push the personalization-with-privacy envelope as co-founder of Lumeria Inc., where he furthered his work in agent and infomediary technology; he is the co-author of Lumeria's SuperProfile white paper. He believes that current technologies such as Java, XML, and public key cryptography, combined with greater power and bandwidth at the desktop, will at last enable his vision to become a reality. Kevin: Kevin Burton is a long-standing contributor to the Apache Software Foundation, with emphasis on Open Source/Content, Java, XML and distributed Internet systems. He is the creator of the Apache Jetspeed project and co-founded the Turbine project. Both have been very successful, with Jetspeed attracting involvement from companies such as IBM, SAP, and NEC and Turbine now driving some of the most complex applications on the Internet. He is also involved in next generation Software Engineering, and is trying to use the distributed, evolutionary Open Source model to build quality, solid Software. Kevin is presently a primary developer of OpenPrivacy. Talk: Can and Will Privacy Enhance the Marketplace? (panel/debate) Is Privacy a Value-added Proposition in the Marketplace? How Will Privacy Affect the Marketplace? is an open, distributed (peer-to-peer?) system that enhances user privacy the next step towards making the still nascent digital economy a viable marketplace? [into the open? (next phase?) (a brokered, personalized, and safe place to conduct business?) (generation?) To: Simson Garfinkle , Barbara Simons , Lorrie Cranor , Brewster Kahle , Tim O'Reilly , Paul Perry , Cindy Cohn Hello all - Are you planning to attend - or thinking of attending - this year's Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference ? If so, I'd like you to think about being a part of the panel discussion (debate?) described below (hosted by OpenPrivacy , my current project). Of course, we're rather privacy-centric, but we want to cover both sides of the issue. I've only got one person identified on the marketing side of things so far (and I don't even have his email address!), so if you have additional suggestions there, I'd love to hear them. Please let me know ASAP if you think you might want to be involved in this (the deadline for submitting our panel proposal is January 5th and I'd like to have it in by the 3rd). If you're on board, please send complete contact information (no privacy here - yet!) and a short bio for inclusion in the proposal. Also, if you have any suggestions on how to add impact to the description below (which is limited to 100 words and is currently slightly over that), I welcome your input. Thanks for your consideration and I hope to see you in Boston this spring. ========================================================================= ------------------- submitted 1:45pm, 2001.01.03 ------------------------ ========================================================================= Title: Is Privacy a Value-added Proposition in the Digital Marketplace? Description: Is an open, distributed, peer-to-peer system that monetizes and prioritizes user privacy the next step toward making the digital economy the marketplace of choice? will the consumer, finally, truly be king? or will marketers continue to thwart reasonable privacy initiatives, fearing a loss of valuable profile segments and their ability to target same? The answer may lie with strongly verifiable and authenticatable profiles that provide total user information while enabling novel data mining techniques that satisfy both the consumer's quest for privacy and the marketer's thirst for knowledge. We will explore this and other alternatives in our panel discussion. Moderator: Fen Labalme

Fen Labalme is a primary developer of OpenPrivacy, an Open Source, cryptographically secure, transparent to the user, distributed platform for creating, maintaining, and selectively sharing profile information (e.g., a marketplace for anonymous demographic profiles). Since creating the first personalized information system in 1979 (NewsPeek, at the then-nascent MIT Media Lab), Fen has been continuously evolving his goal of privacy-enhanced personalization. As part of his research into personalized information, he coined the term broadcatch to describe a suite of "many-to-one" technologies designed to provide information the way people really want it: timely, trusted, and on target. Fen continued to push the personalization-with-privacy envelope as co-founder of Lumeria Inc., where he furthered his work in agent and infomediary technology; he is the co-author of Lumeria's SuperProfile white paper. He believes that current technologies such as Java, XML, and public key cryptography, combined with greater power and bandwidth at the desktop, will at last enable his vision to become a reality.

Confirmed panelists:

Lorrie Faith Cranor

Dr. Lorrie Faith Cranor is a Senior Technical Staff Member in the Secure Systems Research Department at AT&T Labs-Research Shannon Laboratory in Florham Park, New Jersey. She is chair of the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) Specification Working Group at the World Wide Web Consortium, and co-creator of the Publius censorship-resistant publishing system. Her research has focused on a variety of areas where technology and policy issues interact, including online privacy, electronic voting, and spam.

Simson Garfinkle (author, Database Nation)
Deborah Pierce (privacy counsel for EFF)

Awaiting confirmation (3 will be added to the 6-member panel):

Ted Wham (president, "Database Marketing for the Internet")
Barbara Simons (ACM)
Tim O'Reilly (Open Source advocate)
Richard Purcell or Greg Hampson (Microsoft)
Craig Nathan (MEconomy) ======== Contact information: Fen Labalme
1899 California Street #9 / San Francisco, CA 94109
phone: 415-749-0499
mailto:fen@openprivacy.org

Lorrie Faith Cranor
mailto: lorrie@research.att.com

Deborah Pierce
mailto:dsp@eff.org

Simson Garfinkle
mailto:slg@walden.cambridge.ma.us

More to follow when the rest of the panel firms up... ========================================================================= ========================================================================= Potential panelists and (for my reference only!) affiliations: Note: I guessed as well as , and have no address for Ted Wham at all. Help with email addresses and suggestions for other panelists are welcome! Simson Garfinkle (author, "Database Nation") Barbara Simons (ACM) Lorrie Faith Cranor (P3P, ATT, Publius) Paul Perry (Microsoft, bCentral, Firefly, P3P) Cindy Cohn (EFF) Brewster Kahle (Alexa) Ted Wham (president, "Database Marketing for the Internet") Tim O'Reilly (Open Source advocate) ================= cut here - background info follows ================ Program Committee. Committee members for CFP 2001. Dave Banisar Privacy International Scott Bradner Harvard University Simon Davies London School of Economics Lenny Foner Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Deborah Hurley Harvard Information Infrastructure Project, Harvard University CFP2001 Chair Jamie Love Consumer Project on Technology Stephanie Perrin ZeroKnowledge Systems, Inc. Barbara Simons Association for Computing Machinery Coralee Whitcomb Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility Tipping: already happening in open source community (viz, contributions) buzz words: authenticatable profile verifiability long-lived pseudonymous extending urbanymity reputation capital semantic web open market internet economy Value: seller: target identified (highly qualified) segments buyer: higher quality information broker: earn reputation, market share con: current systems are based on being able to identify the user it will take a lot of effort to change the way the marketplace works pro: easy introduction through opensource channels (slashdot, freenet...) jetspeek and other simple apps help create useful marketplace con: users need to be educated to best leverage their information pro: new market created for brokers to aid users in this area first systems (e.g. jetspeek) extend well-established interfaces examples: cuecat: fear of losing control of profile aggregation === BACKGROUND Talk: Can and Will Privacy Enhance the Marketplace? (panel/debate) Is Privacy a Value-added Proposition in the Marketplace? How Will Privacy Affect the Marketplace? is an open, distributed (peer-to-peer?) system that enhances user privacy the next step towards making the still nascent digital economy a viable marketplace? [into the open? (next phase?) (a brokered, personalized, and safe place to conduct business?) (generation?) do marketers fear that total user privacy will rob them of their ability to target valuable profile segments, or that user control over their information will enable competitors to gain access to their valuable data? perhaps strongly verifiable and authenticatable profiles can provide greater value, enabling data mining techniques heretofore impossible without exposed and user-verifiable data.