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Join Microsoft, Above the Law, and Civic Hall for an evening dedicated to discussing the legal issues that arise in the context of Microsoft’s challenge to a search warrant issued for data stored in its Dublin data center, and for the larger conversation regarding the policy ramifications regarding the future of cloud computing.

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A series of high profile cases have been defining the balance we strike between privacy and security in the digital world. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals is considering Microsoft’s challenge to a U.S. search warrant seeking customer e-mail content on the company’s servers in Ireland. Watchers pick this as an important case with precedent setting potential on par with Riley given the lack of legal clarity on how and what data law enforcement should be able to access from individuals. The case could have significant implications for discussions in Congress on reforming ECPA, the pre-Internet law that governs the application of search warrants in the digital world.

Join us on Wednesday, July 22 for an evening dedicated to discussing the legal issues that arise in the context of Microsoft’s challenge to a search warrant issued for data stored in its Dublin data center, and for the larger conversation regarding the policy ramifications regarding the future of cloud computing.

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Keynote by Former-Assistant Attorney General of the United States, Viet Dinh.
Viet Dinh Viet D. Dinh served as U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Legal Policy from 2001 to 2003, and clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Currently Dinh is the founding partner of Bancroft PLLC, and a Professorial Lecturer in Law and Distinguished Lecturer in Government at Georgetown University, where he specializes in corporations and constitutional law. He serves on the Board of Directors of 21st Century Fox, Inc. (formerly the News Corporation), where he is Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, and of Revlon, Inc. He previously served on the Boards of Directors of MFW Inc., and of The Orchard Enterprises, Inc., where he chaired the Compensation Committee. Viet’s firm, Bancroft PLLC, represents a number of clients including Microsoft, but his views on these issues are his own.

Panel to Include:

Moderator
David Lat Founding and Managing Editor, Above the Law David Lat is the founder and managing editor of Above the Law. His writing has also appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post, among other publications. Prior to ATL, he launched Underneath Their Robes, a blog about federal judges. Before entering the media world, David worked as a federal prosecutor in Newark, New Jersey; a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, in New York; and a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. David graduated from Harvard College and Yale Law School, where he served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal.

Christopher Sprigman Professor of Law, NYU Chris Sprigman teaches intellectual property law, antitrust law, competition policy and comparative constitutional law at NYU. His scholarship focuses on how legal rules affect innovation and the deployment of new technologies. He is the author of numerous articles both in law reviews in the popular press, as well as a book, The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation(Oxford 2012), co-authored with Kal Raustiala of the UCLA School of Law. Sprigman clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and for Justice Lourens H. W. Ackermann of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and has taught at the law school of the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa. From 1999 to 2001, Sprigman served as appellate counsel in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked on U.S. v. Microsoft, among other matters.

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Chris Calabrese Vice President of Policy, Center for Democracy & Technology Chris Calabrese is the Vice President for Policy at the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) where he oversees CDT’s policy portfolio. Chris has long been an advocate for privacy protections, Internet openness, limits on government surveillance, and fostering the responsible use of new technologies. Before joining CDT, Chris served as legislative counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) Washington Legislative Office. In that role, he led the office’s advocacy efforts related to privacy, developing proactive strategies on pending federal legislation and executive branch actions concerning privacy, new technology and identification systems.

Julia Angwin Senior Reporter, ProPublica From 2000 to 2013, Julia Angwin was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where she led a privacy investigative team that was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting in 2011 and won a Gerald Loeb Award in 2010. Her book Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance, was published by Times Books earlier this year, and was shortlisted for Best Business Book of the Year by the Financial Times. Also in 2014, Julia was named reporter of the year by the Newswomen’s Club of New York. In 2003, she was on a team of reporters at The Wall Street Journal that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for coverage of corporate corruption. She is also the author of Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America (Random House, March 2009).

The event is sponsored by Microsoft.

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