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I will be live blogging parts of pii 2010 for the next three days.  This should be an interesting conference, pii stands for Privacy Identity & Innovation.  The speakers list is very corporate and includes Mircosoft, Google, Paypal, Perkins Coie, Oracle, CBS news & AT&T. Topics for the conference include:

• How emerging technologies & business models are impacting the way data is created, shared and aggregated
• Effective approaches for building online trust with users
• Ways in which user preferences and social norms are shifting
• Changes in the regulatory landscape, in the U.S. and internationally
• The role of anonymity and the future of reputation management on the Web
• The latest developments in user-centric identity management

The speakers list is notably missing three organization that do the most to protect privacy in the US: the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), The American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Privacy Information Center. This seems like a large oversight given the topic. In fact this is the first conference I have been to on the West Coast with PFF a libertarian think tank out of DC but not EFF, maybe that is due to my free culture leanings when choosing conferences to attend.