FTC Announces Agenda, Panelists for Facial Recognition Workshop

Face Facts: A Forum on Facial Recognition Technology
December 8, 2011

8:30 am Registration         9:30 am Welcome & Introductory Remarks: Chairman Jon Leibowitz       10:00 am Panel 1 – Facial Detection & Recognition Technology: How Does It Work?   Moderator: Edward W. Felten, Chief Technologist, FTC   Panelists: Ralph Gross, Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University     Dr. P. Jonathon Phillips, Electronic Engineer, NIST       10:30 am Break         10:45 am Panel 2 – Facial Detection: Uses and Ramifications   Moderators: Mark Eichorn, Assistant Director,
Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, FTC     Manas Mohapatra, Attorney,
Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, FTC   Panelists: Fred Carter, Senior Policy & Technology Advisor,
Information and Privacy Commissioner’s Office, Ontario, Canada     Andrew Cummins, Chief Strategy Officer, SceneTap     Harley Geiger, Policy Counsel, Center for Democracy and Technology     Beth Givens, Director, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse     Jai Haissman, Founder & CEO, Affective Interfaces     Brian Huseman, Senior Policy Counsel, Intel Corporation       12:00 pm Lunch         1:15 pm Remarks: Commissioner Julie Brill       1:30 pm Panel 3 – Facial Recognition: What’s Possible Now and What Does the Future Hold?   Moderators: Amanda Koulousias, Attorneys,
Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, FTC     Jessica Lyon, Attorneys,
Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, FTC   Panelists: Alessandro Acquisti, Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University     Chris Conley, Technology & Civil Liberties Fellow, ACLU of Northern California     Gil Hirsch, Co-founder and CEO, face.com     Benjamin Petrosky, Product Counsel, Google Inc.    

 

2:45 pm Break         3:00 pm Panel 4 – Facial Detection & Recognition: Exploring the Policy Implications   Moderators: Maneesha Mithal, Associate Director,
Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, FTC     Laureen Kapin, Counsel for International Consumer Protection
Office of International Affairs, FTC   Panelists: Joseph J. Atick, Ph.D., Vice Chairman, International Biometrics & Identification Association     Daniel Caron, Legal Counsel, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada     Pam Dixon, Executive Director, World Privacy Forum     Erin Egan, Senior Privacy Advisor & Director, Privacy, Facebook     John Verdi, Senior Counsel, Electronic Privacy Information Center     Dr. Simon Rice, Principal Policy Adviser (Technology), Information Commissioner’s Office, United Kingdom     Daniel J. Solove, John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School 4:30 pm Closing
Remarks: Jessica Rich, Deputy Director,
Bureau of Consumer Protection, FTC

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