The closing keynote speech, “Why Online Privacy Matters in the Face of Heightened Surveillance Measures” at April 8th’s upcoming conference, “Cybersecurity and You: Issues in Higher Education and Beyond” will be delivered by well-known online privacy researcher, Dr. Alessandro Acquisti.  His 2013 TED talk “What will a future without secrets look like?” has been viewed over million times.

Dr. Alessandro Acquisti is Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy at the Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and a member of the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine. He is also the director of the Peex (Privacy Economics Experiments) lab at CMU, the co-director of CMU CBDR (Center for Behavioral and Decision Research), and a a member of the National Academies’ Committee on Public Response to Alerts and Warnings Using Social Media and Associated Privacy Considerations.

Please join us at the “Cybersecurity and You: Issues in Higher Education and Beyond” conference this Friday. The conference begins at 10 AM, and Dr. Acquisti’s closing keynote is scheduled at 2:45 PM if you just want to join us for his talk. For late conference registration, please call the HS/HSL Administration at 410-706-7545. The conference will also be livestreamed, and the recording will be made available afterwards.

The HS/HSL will be closed Sunday 3/27 in observance of the Easter Holiday. We will resume regularly scheduled hours on Monday 3/28.

Cybersecurity is everyone’s concern whether at the research bench, in the classroom, or in your own personal email and social media accounts. Join us on April 8 for “Cybersecurity and You: Issues in Higher Education and Beyond.”

Our morning and afternoon keynote speakers, Joe St Sauver, Ph.D., and Alessandro Acquisti, Ph.D., will explore the subject from two different perspectives. For the morning keynote, Joe St Sauver, a scientist at a data driven security company, with previous work in higher education and Internet2/InCommon, will offer his keynote, “Cybersecurity and You: Successfully Operating in Denied Areas.” Our afternoon keynote, Alessandro Acquisti, a Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy at the Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University, and Member, Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine will share his thoughts in his talk entitled, “Why Online Privacy Matters in the Face of Heightened Surveillance Measures.”

In between, panels will explore:

• how UMB meets challenges in sharing and securing research data;
• cybersecurity trends and their impacts on the legal industry;
• collaborative efforts to safeguard the UMB community’s infrastructure, data and networks;
• massive data collection practices by the government under the Fourth Amendment and their implications for libraries and current legislative efforts potentially detrimental to library users’ privacy; and
• how your information on social media sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn is gathered and used

Organized by HS/HSL, CITS, and the Law Library Association of Maryland, this conference is free and open to the public, however registration is required. It will take place on Fri. April 8, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Southern Management Corporation (SMC) Campus Center at UMB. A light lunch will be served. The keynotes and parts of the program will be live-streamed at the time of the event, and the video recording will also be available. Check out the conference program and RSVP online today!

The project has been funded with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No. HHS-N-276-2011-00004-C with the University of Maryland Baltimore. This program was made possible by a grant from the AALL/Bloomberg BNA Continuing Education Grant Program.