Hausman, New Directions in Regulation Seminar on Broadband Access To: HIIP@Harvard.edu Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 17:07:35 -0500 HIIP Seminar "Current Developments in U.S. Data Privacy Regulation" Barry J. Hurewitz Government and Regulatory Affairs, Hale and Dorr LLP Monday, November 26, 2001 noon-1:30 p.m. BCSIA Library, Littauer Room 369, 3rd Floor John F. Kennedy School of Government Regulatory protection of personal privacy in the U.S. has risen from obscurity in the past few years. Sector by sector, privacy regulations have transformed e-commerce and invigorated advocates of personal information privacy. Privacy protections have been extended to driver's license information, children's online information, financial data, wireless communications, and health records. A combination of industry self- regulation and government enforcement has shaped emerging practices in consumer online privacy. Now, the change in administrations, the war on terrorism, emerging technologies and economic trouble in the online industry are changing the privacy debate in Washington. The FTC has abandoned its call for new privacy laws, and Congress has expanded law enforcement surveillance powers. What is the U.S. regulatory structure for privacy protection? What is happening to e-privacy? Does better information need to compromise privacy? How will the current trend affect e-business? Barry Hurewitz, a partner in Hale and Dorr's Government & Regulatory Affairs Department, has a multidisciplinary practice focusing on federal legislative and regulatory matters affecting technology companies, including federal technology policy, regulatory compliance, government procurement, and technology transfer. As data privacy and security issues have expanded across the high- technology sector, Mr. Hurewitz has advised clients on U.S. and international data privacy developments, including Internet privacy, health data privacy, financial privacy, the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor program for protecting personal data about EU persons, federal surveillance techniques, and privacy in telecommunications. Hurewitz' practice includes regulatory counseling, developing internal corporate data protection procedures, responding to enforcement actions and private claims, participating in the development of new regulations, and tracking emerging state and federal privacy legislation. HIIP Seminar - Schedule for Remaining Sessions, Autumn 2001 December 3 Tim Berners-Lee, Director, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and Senior Research Scientist, Laboratory for Computer Science, MIT Seminars to be held on Mondays, 12-1:30pm, BCSIA Library, Room Littauer 369, John F. Kennedy School of Government This is a brown bag style seminar with limited seating available. The schedule is posted at <http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/iip/HIIP-Seminar.html

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The 2001-2002 HIIP Seminar Series is dedicated to the memory of Michael L. Dertouzos (1936-2001). Thursday, November 29, 2001 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. Bell Hall John F. Kennedy School of Government The Regulatory Policy Program and The Harvard Information Infrastructure Project, Center for Business and Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government invite you to attend a New Directions in Regulation Lunch Seminar with Jerry Hausman on "Broadband Internet Access: The Effect of Asymmetric Regulation" The growing market for current digital cellular service (2G) is beginning to decrease the usage of wireline (traditional) telephone service. Although long distance usage is decreasing, as is local usage in countries where consumers pay to make local calls, wireline telephone service offers broadband (high speed) Internet service which current mobile 2G technology cannot offer. Professor Hausman will explore whether the next generation mobile technology, 3G, will provide an adequate data substitute for wireline service. If it does, the need for regulation for wireline service is likely to disappear along with the numerous distortions in the economy that traditional forms of regulation create. Jerry A. Hausman is the John and Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has taught at MIT for 28 years. He is Director of the MIT Telecommunications Economics Research Program. Professor Hausman teaches a course, "Competition in Telecommunications," to graduate students in economics and business. He is also a Special Consultant to Lexecon, Inc. Professor Hausman received the John Bates Clark Award from the American Economics Association in 1985 for the most outstanding contributions to economics by an economist under 40 years of age. He also received the Frisch Medal from the Econometric Society. Professor Hausman has published numerous papers in econometrics and applied microeconomics. His recent applied research has been in differentiated products and in telecommunications. --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'