On the Identity Trail - ConcealedI Conference Review

The Concealed "I": Anonymity, Identity and the Prospect of Privacy Conference was organized and presented by the On the Identity Trail Project and was held on March 4-5 2005. The Conference was hosted by the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Law and was made possible by the sponsorship contributions of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, the Department of Justice, Bell Canada and Microsoft. The conference attracted more than 200 attendees and began on the evening of March 3, 2005 with a party at Bar 56 in the Byward Market to celebrate the upcoming special issue of the University of Ottawa Law & Technology Journal, which is dedicated to the themes of anonymity, identity and privacy.

•Conference Welcome: overview | archived webcast (.wmv)
• The Nature and Value of Privacy & Anonymity: overview | archived webcast part 1, at 17:25 | archived webcast (.wmv) part 2
• Public Perceptions of Privacy and Anonymity: overview | archived webcast (.wmv) part 1 | archived web-cast part 2 (.wmv)
• What's Crossing our Desks? Policy Issues Facing the Canadian Privacy Commissioners' Community: overview | archived web-cast part 1 (.wmv), at 24:04 minutes | archived webcast part 2 (.wmv)
• A Debate: Be it resolved that a national identity card should be established in Canada and the United States: overview | archived webcast part 1 (.wmv) at 47:15 | archived web-cast (.wmv) part 2
• Is the Future the P.I.T.s?: Implanting and Extracting Identity: overview | archived web-cast (.wmv) part 1 | archived webcast part 2 (.wmv)
• Anonymity, Identity and Constitutions: overview | archived webcast (.wmv) part 1 | archived webcast part 2 (.wmv)
• Gender, Race & the Social Casualties of Information Policy: overview | archived webcast (.wmv) part 1 | archived webcast (.wmv) part 2
• Life During Wartime: Is our Legal System Protecting the Human Face of Privacy?: overview | archived webcast (.wmv)
• Who Are the Privacy Advocates?: From CIPPIC to Sousveillance: overview | archived webcast (.wmv) part 1 | archived webcast (.wmv) part 2
• Closing Remarks: overview | archived webcast (.wmv)