The ACLU of Northern California's dotRights digital privacy team will be out in force at the 2010 South by Southwest Interactive Conference. Technology and civil liberties experts Nicole Ozer and Chris Conley from ACLU-NC will lead a riveting core conversation and a panel during the conference. Ozer and Conley will be available throughout the event for digital privacy analysis. For more information about ACLU-NC's digital privacy campaign, visit www.dotrights.org.

Connect with the ACLU during SXSW at Booth 105 in the exhibit hall on Saturday, March 13 - Monday, March 15. The ACLU-NC and the dotRights team will be tweeting and blogging from the conference. Follow them on Twitter to stay updated and hear real-time privacy analysis of breaking news from the conference (@dotrights and @ACLU_NorCal), and visit the ACLU Technology and Civil Liberties blog, Bytes and Pieces.

ACLU-NC Sessions at SXSWi:

Core Conversation: Big Brother on the Big Screen: Fact/Fiction?
Saturday, March 13 at 5:00 PM / Location: 8A
Can the NSA really do that? Um, yes. Join Nicole Ozer at the movies to take a close look at how government surveillance has caught up with the fables dreamed up for Hollywood flicks like Enemy of the State, Minority Report, The Bourne Ultimatum, and The Dark Knight

Presenters: 

• Nicole Ozer, ACLU of Northern California
• Kevin Bankston, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Panel: My Life, Take Two: The Right to Delete
Sunday, March 14 at 11:00 AM / Location: Hilton K
Most of us have incidents in our past that we'd rather leave there--but that's getting harder to doin a world teeming with tools and devices that capture our actions and record them forever. Do we have a "right to delete" records and data about ourselves? Can we? Should we?

Panelists: 

• Chris Conley, ACLU of Northern California
• Annalee Newitz (moderator), tech journalist/blogger and editor of io9.com
• Marc Davis, Chief Scientist and co-founder of Invention Arts
• Andrew McLaughlin, Deputy US Chief Technology Officer at Executive Office of the President and
  former Head of Global Public Policy for Google
• Elly Jonez, Drupal developer and lifeblogger

Look for ACLU's featured digital privacy publications onsite:

• Privacy & Free Speech: It's Good for Business, a guide for startups and other businesses on how to build privacy and free speech into the development process.
• Cloud Computing: Storm Warning for Privacy?
• Facebook Privacy Fact Sheet

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