Ask HN: Doing something innovative with privacy?

7 points

12 years ago

I'm trying to find panelists to speak at RSA early next year[1]. I'm the CTO at the International Association of Privacy Professionals[2] and we've done some pretty cool panels in the past at RSA including a panel with the CPOs from Microsoft, Mozilla, Google and Facebook and another one with intelligence agency representatives (post Snowden). These have been packed sessions (500+ people) and have been well received.

This year we want to put together a panel to discuss best practices (or whether it is practical) to design and architect to meet the privacy expectations of consumers -- and do so ethically. Any side of the privacy conversation is welcome. The IAPP is not an advocacy organization so among our members are Axciom, members of the US intelligence community, people from Mozilla and the EFF, regulators from European data protection authorities and everything in between.

What I'm hoping to get from reaching out here (and I've been a member here for years) are people who are passionate about privacy and are doing something innovative or revolutionary in the space. It's easy for me to find privacy professionals at large organizations (those are our members) but generally startups don't join professional associations so reaching into that community is much more difficult. I know there are great things happening in the space and I want to give them a voice.

If you are interested, or want to suggest someone else, you can reply here or reach out to me at my work email jeff at privacyassociation dot org. BTW, if you are speaking you will get a free pass to the entire conference, but there is no funding for paying for travel expenses -- sorry.