Picking Apart Privacy or Preserving Security?
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Experts weigh in on the implications of the conflict between Apple and the FBI
Dickinson will host a panel discussion on issues of security and privacy, focusing specifically on the debate between Apple and the FBI over the unlocking of the iPhone of one of the shooters in the December San Bernardino terrorist attack. The event, “iPhone vs. the FBI: Government Surveillance in the Post-Snowden Era,” will be held Tuesday, April 5, at 7 p.m. in Allison Great Hall.
In recent weeks, the FBI has demanded Apple create software to bypass the password protection of the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. Though authorities have since revealed that they broke the encryption with the help of an unidentified third party, the case has ignited a serious debate over civil liberties and privacy. The panel will discuss the significant security, legal, privacy and technological implications of the controversy.
The panel is made up of Amy C. Gaudion, the director of Graduate & International Education and a visiting assistant professor of law at Penn State’s Dickinson School of Law; Anthony Williams, visiting professor of political science and security studies at Dickinson; and John MacCormick, associate professor of computer science at Dickinson, who will serve as moderator.
Gaudion’s scholarly and teaching interests focus on national-security law, homeland-security law and civilian-military relations. Her recent works have appeared in the Penn State Journal for Law & International Affairs, The New York Times, The Daily Beast and the Western State Law Review. Williams is a retired U.S. senior intelligence officer, serving for 32 years. His interests focus on international terrorism and international intelligence studies. MacCormick has worked as a computer scientist in the research labs of Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft and has filed more than a dozen U.S. patents on novel computer technologies. His work spans several sub-fields of computer science, including computer vision, large-scale distributed systems, computer science education and the public understanding of computer science.
This event is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues.
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Published April 1, 2016