The Challenge Of New Technologies: Do We Need A New Privacy Theory?
Lisa Austin
Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law
University of Toronto
Tuesday, March 19, 2002
6pm-7,30:00PM
140 St. George, Room 728
Faculty of Information Studies (building adjacent to Robarts Library)
University of Toronto
The lectures are free of charge and you do NOT have to register.
Abstract
As technology becomes part in most of our daily activities, the boundaries between internal and external, privacy and public, start to shift and with them the notion of privacy. Is it now time to sit down and rethink the traditional privacy concept so that is better suited for the challenges of an information age? In her talk Lisa Austin will discuss these issues. She will take the audience through a discussion of the changing relationship between the development and usage of information and communication technologies and privacy advocacy. Lisa Austin will provide some guidelines as to how privacy can be reconceptualized to better fit today's reality.
Bio
Lisa Austin is currently Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law. Her research interests include privacy issues, property law and the social implications of technology.
She is also completing her Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Toronto, working in the area of philosophy of technology. Prior to resuming her doctoral work, she served as a Law Clerk to Mr. Justice Frank Iacobucci of the Supreme Court of Canada (1998-1999).
To sign-up for the Privacy Lecture Series announcement email list please go to: http://privacy.openflows.org/
The Privacy Lecture Series is organized by Ana Viseu, a researcher currently working at the University of Toronto on her Ph.D. dissertation which focuses on the development and implementation of wearable computers. Her research interests include questions of privacy, social dimensions of technology, and the mutual adaptation processes between individuals and technology. Ana holds a Master's Degree in Interactive Communication from the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.
http://fcis.oise.utoronto.ca/~aviseu
The Privacy Lecture Series is co-sponsored by the Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI) http://www.kmdi.utoronto.ca/ and the Information Policy Research Program (IPRP) http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/research/iprp/.
