Conference # 2018 Cato Institute Surveillance Conference ##### Watch the Event Join the conversation on X using [\#CatoEvents](https://x.com/hashtag/CatoEvents). Follow [@CatoInstitute](https://x.com/catoinstitute) on X to get future event updates, live streams, and videos from the Cato Institute. Date and Time December 14, 2018 9 AM - 5:30 PM EST Location Hayek Auditorium, Cato Institute Share This Event ##### Featuring [![Julian Sanchez](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/author_picture/public/2021-01/Julian%20Sanchez.jpg?itok=TOVwbG_X)](/people/julian-sanchez) [Julian Sanchez](/people/julian-sanchez) Former Senior Fellow [ ](https://twitter.com/normative) [![Gene Healy](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/author_picture/public/2021-01/Gene%20Healy.jpg?itok=EhkBZWC4)](/people/gene-healy) [Gene Healy](/people/gene-healy) Former Senior Vice President for Policy, Cato Institute Michael Glennon Professor, Tufts University Susan Hennessey Kate Martin April Falcon Doss [![Patrick G. Eddington](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/author_picture/public/2021-01/Patrick%20Eddington.jpg?itok=ddIWrIm5)](/people/patrick-g-eddington) [Patrick G. Eddington](/people/patrick-g-eddington) Senior Fellow, Cato Institute [ ](https://x.com/pgeddington) [ ](mailto:peddington@cato.org) Sharon Bradford Franklin ![Rachel Levinson-Waldman_cropped](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/author_picture/public/2026-09/Rachel%20Levinson-Waldman_cropped.jpg?itok=jyg2NJ91) Rachel Levinson-Waldman Director of Liberty and National Security Program Brennan Center for Justice ![Jake Laperruque](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/author_picture/public/2026-07/Jake%20Laperruque.jpg?itok=aFRSv9D5) Jake Laperruque Deputy Director, Security and Surveillance Project, Center for Democracy and Technology [ ](https://twitter.com/JakeLaperruque) Dave Maass Jennifer Daskal Heather West Andrew Ferguson Hannah Quay-de la Vallee [![Matthew Feeney](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/author_picture/public/2021-01/Matthew%20Feeney.jpg?itok=O149-e08)](/people/matthew-feeney) [Matthew Feeney](/people/matthew-feeney) Head of Technology and Innovation, Centre for Policy Studies [ ](https://twitter.com/m_feeney) Alexandra Galloway David Lieber Jesse Franzblau Matthew Green ![Ackerman-cropped.jpg](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/author_picture/public/2021-07/Ackerman-cropped.jpg?itok=AIXiJJJB) Spencer Ackerman Author, Contributing Editor, Daily Beast [ ](https://twitter.com/attackerman) Olivia Martin Jack Gillum [![Julian Sanchez](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/author_picture/public/2021-01/Julian%20Sanchez.jpg?itok=TOVwbG_X)](/people/julian-sanchez) [Julian Sanchez](/people/julian-sanchez) Former Senior Fellow [ ](https://twitter.com/normative) The legendary spymaster James Jesus Angleton called the world of intelligence a “wilderness of mirrors,” and rarely has that description seemed as apt as it does in 2018. President Donald Trump rails against a “deep state” embedded within the very intelligence agencies over which he now presides—even as former intelligence leaders claim that it’s Trump who has sought to politicize intelligence. In *U.S. v. Carpenter*, the Supreme Court handed down a seminal Fourth Amendment ruling that could dramatically reshape electronic privacy law—but what it will mean in practice remains radically uncertain. Meanwhile, technology companies ranging from social media platforms to manufacturers of the connected devices that constitute the “Internet of Things” have struggled with how to balance users’ privacy against their own business interests and the surveillance demands of governments around the world. Join the Cato Institute—and an array of top experts, technologists, and policymakers—for a probing examination of these issues and many more as we seek to navigate the wilderness. **Schedule** | 9:00 — 9:05AM | **WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION** [Julian Sanchez](https://www.cato.org/people/julian-sanchez), Senior Fellow, Cato Institute | |---|:--| | 9:05 — 10:20AM | **DONALD TRUMP AND THE “DEEP STATE”** [Michael Glennon](), Tufts University [Susan Hennessey](https://www.brookings.edu/experts/susan-hennessey/), Brookings Institution & Lawfare [Kate Martin](https://www.americanprogress.org/about/staff/martin-kate/bio/), Center for American Progress [April Falcon Doss](https://www.saul.com/attorneys/april-f-doss), Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP [Patrick Eddington](https://www.cato.org/people/patrick-g-eddington), Moderator, Cato Institute [Download the Video of the Event](https://cdn.cato.org/archive-2018/cc-12-14-18-01.mp4) [Download the Podcast of the Event](https://cdn.cato.org/archive-2018/cca-12-14-18-01.mp3) | | 10:20 — 10:35AM | **COFFEE BREAK** | | 10:35 — 12:00PM | **FLASH TALKS** **[Looking for a Backdoor Down Under: Australia’s War on Encryption](https://slate.com/technology/2018/10/australia-u-s-encryption-backdoor-law.html)** [Sharon Bradford Franklin](https://www.newamerica.org/our-people/sharon-bradford-franklin/), New America **[Who’s Watching the Kids: Social Media Surveillance of Students](https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/monitoring-kids-social-media-accounts-wont-prevent-next-school-shooting)** [Rachel Levinson-Waldman](https://www.brennancenter.org/expert/rachel-levinson-waldman), Brennan Center for Justice **[A Million Little Eyes: Building Networks for Facial Recognition Surveillance](https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2018/12/unmasking-the-realities-of-facial-recognition/)** [Jake LaPerruque](https://www.pogo.org/about/people/jake-laperruque/), Project on Government Oversight **[Spot the Surveillance: A Virtual Reality Tool](https://www.eff.org/pages/spot-surveillance-vr-experience-keeping-eye-big-brother)** [Dave Maass](https://www.eff.org/about/staff/dave-maass), Electronic Frontier Foundation **[Low-Hanging Fruit: Evidence-Based Solutions to the Digital Evidence Challenge](https://www.csis.org/analysis/low-hanging-fruit-evidence-based-solutions-digital-evidence-challenge)** [Jennifer Daskal](https://www.wcl.american.edu/community/faculty/profile/daskal/bio), American University [Download the Video of the Event](https://cdn.cato.org/archive-2018/cc-12-14-18-02.mp4) [Download the Podcast of the Event](https://cdn.cato.org/archive-2018/cca-12-14-18-02.mp3) | | 12:00 — 1:15PM | **LUNCH** | | 1:15 — 1:30PM | **FLASH TALKS** **[Privacy Not Included: Rating the Creep-Factor of Networked Appliances](https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/)** [Heather West](https://www.rsaconference.com/speakers/heather-west), Mozilla | | 1:30 — 2:45PM | **PANOPTICON OF THINGS: NETWORKED APPLIANCES AS SURVEILLANCE DEVICES** [Andrew Ferguson](https://www.law.udc.edu/page/AFerguson), University of the District of Columbia [Hannah Quay-de la Vallee](https://cdt.org/about/staff/hannah-quay-de-la-vallee/), Center for Democracy and Technology [Heather West](https://www.rsaconference.com/speakers/heather-west), Mozilla [Matthew Feeney](https://www.cato.org/people/matthew-feeney), Moderator, Cato Institute [Download the Video of the Event](https://cdn.cato.org/archive-2018/cc-12-14-18-03.mp4) [Download the Podcast of the Event](https://cdn.cato.org/archive-2018/cca-12-14-18-03.mp3) | | 2:45 — 3:45PM | **FLASH TALKS** **Watching the Watchers—Facebook Transparency Edition** [Alexandra Galloway](https://transparency.facebook.com/government-data-requests), Facebook **[Watching the Watchers—Google Transparency Edition](https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/overview?hl=en)** David Lieber, Google **[Watching the Watchers—FOIA Transparency Edition](https://www.openthegovernment.org/sites/default/files/FOIA%20GuideFINAL.pdf)** [Jesse Franzblau](https://www.openthegovernment.org/taxonomy/term/1137), Open the Government **New Proposals for Law Enforcement Access to Encrypted Communications** [Matthew Green](https://isi.jhu.edu/~mgreen/), Johns Hopkins University [Download the Video of the Event](https://cdn.cato.org/archive-2018/cc-12-14-18-04.mp4) [Download the Podcast of the Event](https://cdn.cato.org/archive-2018/cca-12-14-18-04.mp3) | | 3:45 — 4:00PM | **BREAK** | | 4:00 — 5:15PM | **SECURING JOURNALISM IN AN AGE OF SURVEILLANCE** [Spencer Ackerman](https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/spencer-ackerman), Daily Beast [Olivia Martin](https://freedom.press/people/olivia-martin/), Freedom of the Press Foundation [Rob Mahoney](https://cpj.org/about/staff.php#robert-mahoney), Committee to Protect Journalists [Jack Gillum](https://www.propublica.org/people/jack-gillum), ProPublica [Julian Sanchez](https://www.cato.org/people/julian-sanchez), Moderator, Cato Institute | | 5:15 — 5:30PM | **CLOSING REMARKS** [Julian Sanchez](https://www.cato.org/people/julian-sanchez), Senior Fellow, Cato Institute [Download the Video of the Event](https://cdn.cato.org/archive-2018/cc-12-14-18-05.mp4) [Download the Podcast of the Event](https://cdn.cato.org/archive-2018/cca-12-14-18-05.mp3) | | 5:30PM | **RECEPTION AND TOUR OF “[TREVOR PAGLEN: SITES UNSEEN](https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/paglen)” EXHIBITION AT THE SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM** | [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).