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Civil Liberties in the Information Age 31 January, 2003 MEMORANDUM TO EDITORS What: Forum: – Can We Protect our Civil Liberties and Enable Information Technology to Catch Terrorists at the Same Time? When: Thursday, February 6, 2003, 10:00AM Where: The National Press Club, 529 14th Street NW, Washington, DC 20045 Why: Civil liberties in the information age need to be debated nationally. The Potomac Institute, a Washington think tank known for its ‘fierce objectivity’, has taken on the task of shepherding a national debate on this critically important question. Project Guardian will pursue an objectively comprehensive and informative, nonpartisan understanding of privacy and security relationships, particularly in the era of computer and communication technology. Who: (The Panel) Amitai Etzioni, author of The Limits of Privacy, is a professor at The George Washington University in Washington. The Limits of Privacy provides citizens, policy-makers, and legislators with concise criteria with which to determine when the right of privacy should be preserved and when that right should be curbed for the public good. Combining social science, ethics, and the law in drawing his conclusions, Etzioni closes his provocative book with an outline for a new legal doctrine of privacy. Congressman Curt Weldon (R-PA) was elected to represent the Seventh Congressional District of Pennsylvania for a ninth term in 2002. Following his most recent reelection win, Congressman Weldon became the most senior Republican in the Pennsylvania Delegation. A Member of the House of Representatives since 1987, Weldon has taken leadership roles on a wide variety of issues, ranging from national security to the environment. Eleanor Hill a partner in the Washington law firm of King & Spalding was recently selected by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to serve as the Staff Director for the bicameral, bi-partisan Joint Inquiry into the events related to the September 11 terrorist attacks. The Joint Inquiry is focusing on the role of U.S. intelligence in connection with the terrorist attack of September 11. Marc Rotenberg is Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington, DC. He teaches information privacy law at Georgetown University Law Center and has testified before Congress on many issues, including access to information, encryption policy, computer security, and communications privacy. He has served on several national and international advisory panels, including the expert panels on Cryptography Policy and Computer Security for the OECD and the Legal Experts on Cyberspace Law for UNESCO. He currently chairs the American Bar Association Committee on Privacy and Information Protection. He is editor of The Privacy Law Sourcebook and co-editor (with Daniel J. Solove) of Information Privacy Law: Cases and Materials (forthcoming Aspen Publishing 2002). He is a graduate of Harvard College and Stanford Law School. He served as Counsel to Senator Patrick J. Leahy on the Senate Judiciary Committee. *Jamie Gorelick is Vice Chair of Fannie Mae, the nation's largest source of funds for home mortgages, with over $1 trillion in assets. As part of the four-person Office of the Chairman, she shares responsibility for overall management of the company, directs its efforts to reach underserved markets and oversees Fannie Mae's external relationships, legal and regulatory affairs. Prior to joining Fannie Mae in May 1997, Gorelick was Deputy Attorney General of the United States, a position she assumed in March 1994. She was the Chief Operating Officer and the second-ranking official in the Department of Justice, which had an operating budget of $18 billion and employed more than 100,000 people. * Invited Moderator: Daniel Gallington, Senior Fellow, The Potomac Institute Please RSVP - acceptances only via e-mail to jgatchalian@potomacinstitute.org, or by telephone at 703-525-0770 Media contact: D. S. Dayton, 703-562-4511 or ddayton@potomacinstitute.org The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies is an independent, 501(c)(3), not-for-profit public policy research institute. The Institute identifies and aggressively shepherds discussion on key science and technology issues facing our society, providing in particular, an academic forum for the study of related policy issues. From these discussions and forums, we develop meaningful science and technology policy options and ensure their implementation at the intersection of business and government
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