2007 Conference on Interdisciplinary Studies in Information Privacy and Security May 22, 2007 Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Fred H. Cate

Title: The Privacy Hoax

Privacy laws and data protection commissioners have proliferated around the world, but individuals appear to have less privacy than ever before. What is going on? Is law simply incapable of protecting personal privacy in the face of new technologies, increasingly global data flows, and growing demands for data to fight terrorism, or are we just going about it the wrong way?

Fred H. Cate is a Distinguished Professor of Law, Adjunct Professor of Informatics, and director of the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research at Indiana University. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Technical and Privacy Dimensions of Information for Terrorism Prevention and Other National Goals; a member of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board; reporter for the American Law Institute’s project on Principles of the Law on Government Access to and Use of Personal Digital Information, and a senior policy advisor to the Center for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams. A frequent speaker before professional, industry, and government groups and congressional committees, he is the author of many articles and books, including Privacy in the Information Age and The Internet and the First Amendment, and Privacy in Perspective.