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Cannery Pier Hotel

Technology, Intelligence, and the Preservation of Civil Liberties

Friday, November 17- Sunday, November 19, 2006
Cannery Pier Hotel and Maritime Museum, Astoria, Oregon
             

Education - Law Enforcement - Industry: Working together for the common good.

Speakers

Howard A. Schmidt

President & CEO,
R & H Security Consulting LLC

David Aucsmith

Senior Director,
Microsoft Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments

For more information on each of these speakers, please click here.

Conference Description

This conference will bring together leaders and educators in the fields of IT, national security, law enforcement and security policy for a conversation on current technologies and their potential role in what some are now calling "World War III," the ongoing struggle with stateless terrorism. We believe that accurate and up-to-date knowledge of current technologies is indispensable to reality-based policy decisions.   The recently disrupted plans to blow up ten planes using liquid explosives uncovered in the UK is used to support the claim that accurate intelligence is the name of the game in the post 9/11 world. With the various iterations of the Patriot Act and numerous intelligence related executive orders the line between criminal and national security concerns has blurred creating unprecedented constitutional and policy questions.

Some believe that we are foolish not to use every means at our disposal to reduce the risk of attacks like the one we faced on 9/11. They think the ACLU and others who resist the effective use of the new technologies are both naive and dangerous.   They claim that we are foolishly using the BB guns in a laser war and will eventually pay the price.   Maslow's hierarchy of needs states that people will accept curtailments of liberties, however cherished, if their baseline sense of security is threatened. Since 2001 concerns about civil liberties certainly map against perceived levels of threat.

This conference will address two questions: 1) what technologies exist or will soon exist that we could use to preserve national security, and 2) SHOULD we use them, and in what ways should we use them, given our traditional commitments to civil liberties?

For a schedule of the presentations associated with the conference, please see the schedule page.

If you would like to submit a paper to be presented at this conference, please click here.

Dates

November 17th , 18th, and 19th, 2006.

Costs

Conference Registration:

Early Bird (by November 1st, 2006): $125

Regular (after November 1st, 2006): $150

Hotel Reservations: Please call the Cannery Pier Hotel at 888.325.4996.

Early Bird (by October 16th, 2006): $149 + tax.

Regular (after October 16th, 2006): Call the hotel for current rates.

Please see the registration page for more information, but please note that you must make your own hotel reservations.

Venue

Cannery Pier Hotel and the Maritime Museum

Attractions

Astoria, Oregon entertainment

Sponsors

Pacific Institute for Ethics & Social Policy
Hillsboro Police Department
Computer-Related Investigations, Management and Education (CRIME)
Centennial Software