NATIONAL SECURITY AND CYBER SURVEILLANCE:  A DEBATE 

 

Resolved: The government should never engage in the bulk collection of personal data for national security purposes

 

Date:  Wednesday, March 25, 2015

 

Time:  12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

 

Location: 

Jack Morton Auditorium

School of Media and Public Affairs

805 21st St NW

Washington, DC 20052

 

Event Description:

 

This debate is the fourth event in a University Seminar series on Internet freedom and governance. 

 

The currently planned format of the debate itself will be that used by Intelligence Squared, where the "winner" is deemed to be the side that has changed the most minds.

 

See http://intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/past-debates/item/1190-mass-collection-of-u-s-phone-records-violates-the-fourth-amendment-- for a similar debate.  Ours will be in a university setting and won't have quite the production values they had, but also our proposition is different.  It may focus on control-at-collection vs. control-at-use arguments, or other items, depending on where the debaters take us.

 

Speaker biosketches:

 

Lee Tien from the Electronic Frontier Foundation,  Senior Staff Attorney and Adams Chair for Internet Rights (pro)

 

Chris Soghoian of the American Civil Liberties Union, Principal Technologist and a Senior Policy Analyst (pro)

 

Orin Kerr of GW Law, Professor (con)

 

Paul Clark of Secure Methods LLC,  President and CTO (con)