From: Omer Tene <[email protected]>
Solutions to many pressing economic and societal challenges lie in better
understanding data. New tools for analyzing disparate information sets, called
Big Data, have revolutionized our ability to find signals amongst the noise.
Big Data techniques hold promise for breakthroughs ranging from better health
care, a cleaner environment, safer cities, and more effective marketing. Yet,
privacy advocates are concerned that the same advances will upend the power
relationships between government, business and individuals, and lead to
prosecutorial abuse, racial or other profiling, discrimination, redlining,
overcriminalization, and other restricted freedoms.
The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) and the Stanford Center for Internet and
Society (CIS) invite authors to submit papers discussing the legal,
technological, social, and policy implications of Big Data. Selected papers
will be published in a special issue of the Stanford Law Review Online and
presented at an FPF/CIS workshop, which will take place in Washington, DC, on
September 10, 2013.
Submissions should be in the range of 1,500 to 2,000 words, with minimal
footnotes (no more than 20, and no endnotes) and in a highly readable style
accessible to a wide audience (see previously published Essays on SLR Online
for examples). All citations should be in Bluebook format. Successful
submissions may address the following questions: Does Big Data present new
challenges or is it simply the latest incarnation of the data regulation
debate? Does Big Data create fundamentally novel opportunities that civil
liberties concerns need to accommodate? Can de-identification sufficiently
minimize privacy risks? What roles should fundamental data privacy concepts
such as consent, context, and data minimization play in a Big Data world? What
lessons can be applied from other fields?
Please send submissions no later than June 30 to:
[email protected].
Publication decisions and workshop invitations will be sent in August.
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