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Conference Dates:

Start Date: 2012-03-01
Last Day: 2012-03-02
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 2011-09-15

Conference Contact Info:

Contact Person: Nick Dietsch
Email: nklr.symposium@gmail.com
Address: NA, Highland Heights, Kentucky, United States

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Conference Description:

The Northern Kentucky Law Review and Salmon P. Chase College of Law seek submissions for the Law & Informatics Symposium on March 1-2, 2012. The Law Review Symposium will take place March 2nd. It will be preceded by a day-long CLE program March 1 regarding practical solutions to current problems facing attorneys and clients.

The Symposium is an opportunity for academics, practitioners, consultants, and students to exchange ideas and explore emerging issues in informatics law, disruptive innovation and the increasingly interconnected information environment. Interdisciplinary presentations are encouraged. Authors and presenters are invited to submit proposals on topics such as the following:

Privacy
-Federal privacy legislative efforts
-Federal/state employment regulations regarding privacy
-HIPAA, FERPA, COPPA, GLBA & other sector-specific privacy issues
-EU & global privacy laws & policies
-Bioinformatics
-Data mining of public databases
-Social Media and political change

Internet Regulation
-Net Neutrality
-DNS Protocols
-PRO IP Act
-New Top Level Domain

Business and Entrepreneurship
-Use of informatics tools for business
-Online securities disclosures & finance
-E-discovery and e-disclosure
-Employee control of Social Media
-Business to business contracting
-Customer tracking
-Online Dispute Resolution
-RFID and NFC utilization
-Ownership of databases & data
-Contracting & enforcement of agreements over sharing of data
-Assessment of significant commercial expansions of informatics practices affecting public expectations & norms

Security
-Computer Security
-Criminal Procedure, with emphasis on technology-based search
-Breach Disclosure Obligations
-National Security Law, with emphasis on cybersecurity
-Cyberwarfare treaty negotiatons
-Suxnet Virus
-Rules of engagement in Cyber-attacks
-Asymetrical warfare and non-state combatants
-Data protection & obligations regarding data breaches
-Data reliability, including people’s rights to review & correct collected data
-Data integrity policies to foster reliability, integrity & accuracy

Creative Media Industries
-Disruptive innovation in television
-Satellite regulation
-Gamification
-Publicity rights in video games
-Trademark usage in virtual worlds
-Participant-created content
-Payment models
-In-game virtual property & pricing
-Protection of minors
-Social media marketing
-Licensing of user generated content
-Disintermediation & reintermediation