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# The 2016 Cato Surveillance Conference 

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Date and Time 

December 14, 2016 10 AM - 6:30 PM EST 

Location 

Hayek Auditorium, Cato Institute 

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[Julian Sanchez](/people/julian-sanchez)

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[Patrick G. Eddington](/people/patrick-g-eddington)

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Eight years ago, Barack Obama arrived in Washington pledging to reverse the dramatic expansion of state surveillance his predecessor had presided over in the name of fighting terrorism. Instead, the Obama administration saw the Bush era’s “collect it all” approach to surveillance become still more firmly entrenched. Meanwhile, the advanced spying technologies once limited to intelligence agencies have been gradually trickling down to local police departments. From the high-profile tussle between Apple and the FBI over smartphone encryption to debates over how to detect “lone wolf” terrorists before they strike, hard questions about modern privacy have figured prominently in the 2016 presidential race. Moreover, as WikiLeaks’ sensational release of hacked Democratic Party e‑mails demonstrated, surveillance isn’t just a campaign issue: It’s a campaign tactic too. As the nation braces itself for a new presidential administration, the Cato Institute will gather technologists, legislators, activists, and intelligence officials to survey the privacy landscape, look ahead to the issues Americans will be debating over the next eight years — from government hacking to predictive “big data” to the “Internet of things” — and examine how and whether Americans can still live at least occasionally free from prying eyes.

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| **9:00 — 9:15AM** | **WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION** **Julian Sanchez**, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute |
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| **9:15 — 10:30AM** | **PANEL – INTELLIGENCE UNDER A TRUMP ADMINISTRATION** [Download the Video of the Event](https://cdn.cato.org/archive-2016/cc-12-14-16-01.mp4) [Download the Podcast of the Event](https://cdn.cato.org/archive-2016/cca-12-14-16-01.mp3) Moderator: **Shane Harris**, *Wall Street Journal* **Susan Hennessey**, Fellow, Brookings Institution **Timothy Edgar**, Visiting Fellow, Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs at Brown University **Carrie Cordero**, Former Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for National Security, Department of Justice **Matthew Olsen**, Former Director, National Counterterrorism Center |
| **10:30 — 10:45AM** | **BREAK** |
| **10:45 — 12:00PM** | **PANEL – GOVERNMENT HACKING** [Download the Video of the Event](https://cdn.cato.org/archive-2016/cc-12-14-16-02.mp4) [Download the Podcast of the Event](https://cdn.cato.org/archive-2016/cca-12-14-16-02.mp3) **Ellen Nakashima**, National Security Reporter, *Washington Post* **Amie Stepanovich**, U.S. Policy Manager, AccessNow **Kevin Bankston**, Director, Open Technology Institute, New America Foundation **Matt Blaze**, Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania **Richard Downing**, Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Division, U.S. Department of Justice |
| **12:00 — 1:10PM** | **LUNCH KEYNOTE – SURVEILLANCE OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR** [Download the Video of the Event](https://cdn.cato.org/archive-2016/cc-12-14-16-03.mp4) [Download the Podcast of the Event](https://cdn.cato.org/archive-2016/cca-12-14-16-03.mp3) **Wade Henderson**, President, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights |
| **1:10 — 1:35PM** | **FLASH TALKS – WATCHING THE WATCHERS** [Download the Video of the Event](https://cdn.cato.org/archive-2016/cc-12-14-16-04.mp4) [Download the Podcast of the Event](https://cdn.cato.org/archive-2016/cca-12-14-16-04.mp3) **Improving Intelligence Oversight** **Nathan Leamer**, Policy Analyst, R Street Institute **Surveillance and the Role of Technology Companies** **Mieke Eoyang**, Vice President for National Security Program, Third Way |
| **1:35 — 2:50PM** | **PANEL – COUNTERING VIOLENT EXTREMISM** [Download the Video of the Event](https://cdn.cato.org/archive-2016/cc-12-14-16-05.mp4) [Download the Podcast of the Event](https://cdn.cato.org/archive-2016/cca-12-14-16-05.mp3) **Patrick Eddington**, Policy Analyst, Cato Institute **Michael German**, Fellow, Brennan Center for Justice **Maya Berry**, Executive Director, Arab American Institute **Sharia Mayfield**, Staff Attorney, Oregon Department of Justice **Luther Reynolds**, Assistant Chief, Montgomery County Police Department **Arjun Singh Sethi**, Director of Law & Policy, Sikh Coalition |
| **2:50 — 3:15PM** | **FLASH TALKS – LOCAL SURVEILLANCE** [Download the Video of the Event](https://cdn.cato.org/archive-2016/cc-12-14-16-06.mp4) [Download the Podcast of the Event](https://cdn.cato.org/archive-2016/cca-12-14-16-06.mp3) **Ways to Use and Misuse Facial Recognition With Police Body Cameras** **Jake Laperruque**, Privacy Fellow, Constitution Project **How Police Monitor Social Media** **Rachel Levinson-Waldman**, Senior Counsel, Brennan Center for Justice at New York University |
| **3:15 — 3:30PM** | **BREAK** |
| **3:30 — 4:00PM** | **FLASH TALKS – SURVEILLANCE IN A BORDERLESS WORLD** [Download the Video of the Event](https://cdn.cato.org/archive-2016/cc-12-14-16-07.mp4) [Download the Podcast of the Event](https://cdn.cato.org/archive-2016/cca-12-14-16-07.mp3) ***Schrems* and the International Backlash Against U.S. Surveillance** **Alan Butler**, Senior Counsel, Electronic Privacy Information Center **When Can Law Enforcement Seize Data Across Borders?** **Jennifer Daskal**, Associate Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law |
| **4:00 — 5:00PM** | **DIALOGUE: THE STATE OF SURVEILLANCE** [Download the Video of the Event](https://cdn.cato.org/archive-2016/cc-12-14-16-08.mp4) [Download the Podcast of the Event](https://cdn.cato.org/archive-2016/cca-12-14-16-08.mp3) Moderator: **Charlie Savage**, *New York Times* **Jennifer Granick**, Director of Civil Liberties, Center for Internet & Society at Stanford University **Alexander W. Joel**, Civil Liberties Protection Officer, Office of the Director of National Intelligence |
| **5:00 — 5:30PM** | **CLOSING REMARKS****Marc Zwillinger**, Founder, ZwillGen PLLC |
| **5:30PM** | **RECEPTION** |
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