Cyber Challenges to International Human Rights
International Conference
A collaboration of the Center for Cyber, Law and Policy (CCLP), University of Haifa & the Cyber Law Program, International Cyber Security Research Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
When: December 12, 2017
Where: Univesity of Haifa, Ofer Observatory, Eshkol Tower, 29th Floor
In recent years, the digital ecosystem has become an arena for hostile cyber activities on the part of states, terror organizations and independent or semi-independent hackers, affecting the interests of individuals, organizations and states. At the same, powerful public and private entities are able to exercise broad powers of surveillance, information collection and manipulation of software and hardware, and can utilize such powers for nefarious ends. This emerging scene, which is under-regulated, creates new threats to civil liberties and human rights. Can existing international law and domestic law instruments and institutions sufficiently address the new threats to civil liberties and human rights?
This conference aims to bring together an international group of established and young scholars who are studying cybersecurity and its ramifications for civil liberties and human rights. The conference will offer an opportunity to present cutting-edge research addressing these issues, to introduce new projects and thought-provoking initiatives, and to promote exchange among participants that will inform their ongoing research.
Keynote speakers:
Prof. Gabriella Blum, Harvard Law School
Gabriella Blum is the Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Harvard Law School, specializing in public international law, international negotiations, the law of armed conflict, and counterterrorism. She is also the Faculty Director of the Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (PILAC) and a member of the Program on Negotiation Executive Board.
Roger Dingledine is an MIT-trained American computer scientist known for having co- founded the Tor Project. A student of mathematics, computer science and electrical engineering, Dingledine is also known by the pseudonym “arma”, and as of December 2016, he continues in a leadership role with the Tor project, as a Project Leader, Director and Research Director.
Prof. Greenstadt is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Drexel University, where she researches the privacy and security properties of intelligent systems and the economics of electronic privacy and information security. Her work is at “layer 8” of the network—analyzing the content. She runs the Privacy, Security, and Automation Laboratory (PSAL) which is a vibrant group of ten researchers.
Agenda
8:30-9:00 Welcome and Coffee
9:00: Greetings
9:15-10:30 Privacy in the Age of Dataveillance
Moderator: Tal Zarsky, University of Haifa
- Yuval Goldfus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Privacy and the Defense of the Self (Abstract)
- David Gray, University of Maryland School of Law
Protecting Human Rights in an Age of Surveillance: Collective Rights and Collective Remedies (Abstract)
- Rachel Greenstadt, Drexel University
- Mickey Zar, Tel Aviv University
The Technological Drama Within the Information Sphere: Privacy versus Surveillance (Abstract)
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-12:15 Corporate Accountability for Protecting Human Rights in Cyberspace
Moderator: Orly Friedman Marton, Microsoft Israel
- Jon M. Garon, NSU Shepard Broad College of Law
A Transnational Business Model to Improve Human Rights, Speech, and Security on the Internet (Abstract)
- Onyeka K. Osuji, Essex University
The Role of Non-State Actors and Corporations in Shaping Online Enforcement (Abstract)
- Michal Gal, University of Haifa
Algorithmic Challenges to Autonomous Choice (Abstract)
- Noa Mor, University of Haifa
Social Network Sites, Human Rights, and Public Law (Abstract)
12:15-12:30 Coffee Break
12:30-13:30 Keynote: Prof. Gabriella Blum, Harvard Law School
The Future of Violence
Commentator: Itamar Mann-Kanowitz, University of Haifa
13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Big Data & Human Rights
Moderator: Tammy Harel Ben Shahar, University of Haifa
- Michal Saliternik, Tel Aviv University
Big Data and the Right to Have Rights (Abstract)
- Doaa Abu Elyounes, Harvard Law School
Bail or Jail? Judicial versus Algorithmic Decision Making in the Pretrial System (Abstract)
- Yoni Har Carmel, University of Haifa
Reshaping Ability Grouping through Big Data (Abstract)
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-18:30 Tor: Internet privacy in the age of big surveillance
Keynote: Roger Dingledine, TOR Project
Moderator: Eldar Haber, University of Haifa
Commentators:
Orr Dunkelmann, University of Haifa
Niva Elkin-Koren, University of Haifa
18:30 Reception
