Title: Government Data Mining and Commercial Data Profiling
When: Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 4:30 PM
Where: ORFES 101 - First Floor Classroom New ORFE/CITP Building

Ron Lee, Princeton Class of 1980, and a national security, privacy,
and technology law partner at Arnold & Porter LLP in Washington, D.C.,
looks forward to a return visit to the best damn place of all. He
will discuss government data mining and commercial data profiling.
Although these two topics are often considered separately, they are
increasingly united because of the government’s interest in studying
commercial transactions to identify and prevent terrorism, the
government’s legal authority to access private databases, and the
private sector’s increasing reliance on the collection and analysis of
personal information and transactions. Lee will present emerging
consensus approaches to regulating and overseeing government data
mining activities, and will consider whether these approaches are
transferable to the private sector. He will also examine
technology-based approaches to meeting privacy concerns raised by
commercial data profiling, and the public and governance issues that
these approaches raise. Lee will then touch upon issues raised by
datamining at the intersection of law, policy, business, technology,
and human behavior where an ongoing public/private/academic
collaboration might make a lasting contribution.

For more information about Ronald D. Lee, please see his biographical information.