Privacy Legislation - panel discussion @ The Privacy Workshop
Channel: electronworkshop
Date: 2015-06-03

Jon Lawrence, CEO of Electronic Frontiers Australia leads a panel discussion on privacy legislation at The Privacy Workshop, Federation Square, in Melbourne, Australia, October 17th, 2014. Details at https://privacy.electronworkshop.com.au

Partners: Electron Workshop, Electronic Frontiers Australia, ThoughtWorks
Sponsors: GetUp!, Google, Facebook, CoinJar, Hunting With Pixels, SpiderOak, Crypton, SquareWeave, Serversaurus and Fed Square.

Panelists: 

Jon Lawrence has two decades of experience in the software and Internet-services industries, covering project management, client-facing, product and business development roles in Australia, the United Kingdom, Denmark and the United States. Jon’s interests include freedom of speech, privacy, copyright reform, and resisting unnecessary mass surveillance. He has been an informed observer of global internet governance issues since 1999 and has a long-standing commitment to bridging the digital divide and to protecting the Internet’s open and interoperable nature. 

David Lindsay is an expert in technology law including cyberlaw, copyright law, communications law (including broadcasting and telecommunications law) and privacy law. He is the author of International Domain Name Law (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2007), a comprehensive study of international domain name dispute resolution. David has published many articles in the areas of copyright law, communications law, privacy law and media law.

Leanne O’Donnell is iiNet’s Regulatory Manager. Reporting to iiNet’s Chief Regulatory Officer, Leanne provides advice and training across the iiNet Group on a range issues including privacy, telecommunications law, copyright and consumer law.

Chris Berg is Policy Director at the Institute of Public Affairs. He is a regular columnist with ABC’s The Drum, and an award-winning former editor of the IPA Review. His latest book is In Defence of Freedom of Speech: from Ancient Greece to Andrew Bolt.