[Ecommerce] Marc Rotenberg wins Privacy award

[James Love]

Subject:  CPSR Award for Privacy to Marc Rotenberg
   Date: 3 Oct 2000 02:29:23 -0000
  From:  sevoy@quark.cpsr.org
    To: cpsrfriends@quark.cpsr.org

Computer Professionals For Social Responsibility
Awards The Annual Norbert Wiener Award To
Marc Rotenberg
Founder and Executive Director 
of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
        
Marc Rotenberg has been chosen to receive the 2000 Norbert 
Wiener Award for his tireless efforts to protect the online privacy 
of America's public.  This award annually honors an outstanding 
leader for their personal dedication to increasing the public 
awareness of the social and political consequences of the uses of 
technology.  Marc Rotenberg has been on the forefront of 
educating both the public and policymakers on privacy 
implications for over a decade.  EPIC was established in 1994 to 
focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to 
protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values.

"CPSR has chosen to recognize Marc Rotenberg for his early 
recognition of the important role policy plays in developing an 
information infrastructure that respects and protects the dignity of 
the individual". said CPSR President, Coralee Whitcomb. "CPSR 
believes that the protection of individual privacy in the online 
world must be the #1 top priority for the positive potential of the 
Internet to be fully realized.  The next president must seriously 
address these concerns in the next 4 years and Marc Rotenberg's 
efforts should serve as a primary source of the public voice."

Lawrence Lessig. Professor of Law, Stanford University says of 
Marc, "No person has done more to defend the values of privacy, 
both in and out of the online world, and few have as rich and 
comprehensive an understanding of the history and tradition of 
values that privacy regulation defends.  CPSR is right to take the 
lead with this deeply deserved award.  But here too, CPSR is 
simply ahead of the rest.  This is the beginning of what will be a 
string of recognition from many different organizations of the 
contribution that America's de facto privacy czar has made 
defending the values that define us."

This year's Norbert Wiener Award will be presented at a dinner in 
conjunction with CPSR's conference, Drawing the Blinds: 
Reconstructing Privacy in the Information Age, in Philadelphia, 
PA.  The program will include presentations by Peter Neumann, 
Chief Scientist at SRI International, Simson Garfinkel, author of 
Database Nation, and Dave Banisar of Privacy International.

Norbert Wiener was among the first to examine the social and 
political consequences of computing technology.  His books, The 
Human Use of Human Beings and God and Golem, Inc. were 
among the earliest works that opened a public discussion of 
computers and what they could do.  He is considered the 
originator of the field of cybernetics.

Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility is an 
international advocacy organization working to provide the public 
and policy makers with realistic assessments of the power, 
promise, and problems of information technology.  Our goal is to 
help define the public interest in the critical choices affecting 
society in the applications of information technology.

To attend, register at 
https://swww.igc.apc.org/cpsr/annMtg2000.html

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Susan Evoy   *   Managing Director                     
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Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
P.O. Box 717  *  Palo Alto  *  CA *  94302         
Phone: (650) 322-3778    *
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