We’re heading into the last few days of public voting for SXSW 2012 proposals. Votes and comments count for about 30% of the decision-making process, and so advocating for the panels you want to see is important. The deadline is Friday, September 2.  So please vote, comment, and share this link with your friends!
There are quite a few interesting panels on privacy. Here’s a selective list. To start with, a few on pseudonymity — ripped from today’s nymwars headlines!
- In Defense of Pseudonymity, with me and Deborah Pierce of PrivacyActivism
- Multiple Persona Disorder: Fables, Fails, and Futures, organized by Joseph Boyle, featuring the legendary maymay
- How to be Yourself when Everybody is Faking It, with an all-star cast including Gabriella Coleman, Liz Henry, and Zeynep Tufecki
- Obama and NSTIC: All Your IDs are Belong to Us, with Identity Woman and Aaron Titus of the Liberty Foundation
- Debate: Should Social Sites Allow Anonymous Users?, with EFF’s Legal Director, Cindy Cohn will debate another Colette Vogele
There’s another nymwars panel that doesn’t make my short list: Identity on the Web: Are Handles Dead? by two people from Google. Â Unsurprisingly, most of the comments it’s getting so far are negative.
In addition to Deborah’s and my contribution, there are also several other panels involving regulars from the Twitter privacy chat:
- Your Body is Your ID: Data Mining Defines You, with Monique Altheim
- Is privacy dead or a billion dollar business?, organized by Shaun Dakin
- Sex, Lies, and Cookies: Web Privacy EXPOSED!, organized by Adam De Martino of Ghostery, with Lorrie Cranor, and Chris Soghoian
And rounding out the top 12 …
- Can Privacy Bootcamp Firm Up Your Bottom Line?, organized by Nicole Ozer from the ACLU of Northern California
- Mobile Privacy: Developer Tricks and Tips, from Chris Conley of ACLU of Northern California
- Principles and Practices for Privacy by Design, by Natalie Fonseca of the PII conference
- Selling Your Soul: Privacy Choices People Make, with Anne Toth of Yahoo! and Jules Polonetsky of the Future of Privacy Forum
- Help! I have an Internet Stalker or Blackmailer, organized by Lisa Borodkin
- Right to be Forgotten: Forgiveness or Censorship?, Meg Ambrose of University of Colorado
- How to Run a Social Site and Not Get Users Killed, organized by EFF Director for International Freedom of Expression Jillian York
There are plenty of other panels on privacy — and of course there are other great topics too; see EFF’s and Liz Henry‘s lists for more. The deadline’s Friday, but why wait?
Don’t delay! Vote today!
jon
Originally published August 30; updated September 1 with a few additional panels
jon | 30-Aug-11 at 8:32 am | Permalink
Even though they’re not privacy-related, I just wanted to highlight a few panels on one of my other favorite topics: diversity. If you haven’t read Emma Persky’s Changing the Ratio at SXSW, please do — it documents how the progress the conference has made getting women to apply hasn’t yet removed the gap in representation. And of course gender isn’t the only dimension of diversity that matters. So, here’s a few bonus recommendations:
Natalie | 31-Aug-11 at 12:32 pm | Permalink
Thanks for compiling this list, and for including my proposal on Principles and Practices for Privacy by Design!
Shaun Dakin | 31-Aug-11 at 8:07 pm | Permalink
Thanks Jon !
Shaun Dakin
@PrivacyCamp