Join us for CMU Privacy Day on January 28

Join us on January 28, 2015 for CMU Privacy Day 2015 at Carnegie Mellon University. CMU Privacy Day celebrates the International Data Privacy Day with an exciting schedule of privacy-related events. All events are in the Carnegie Mellon Cohon University Center, and are free and open to the public. (Please consult the campus map to find your way around campus.)

Data Privacy Day is an international effort to empower and educate people to protect their privacy and control their digital footprint. For more information, please visit StaySafeOnline.org.

Privacy day will kick off with a Privacy Clinic from 11 am to 1 pm. Come to our Privacy Clinic to learn how to protect your privacy. CMU’s information privacy and security students will educate you and answer your questions about privacy risks. We will also have a table with markers so you can contribute drawings to our Privacy Illustrated collection. Refreshments will be provided.

Our keynote presentation begins at 1:30 pm with a talk from Julie Brill, Commissioner of the US Federal Trade Commission. Commissioner brill will then join a panel discussion with CMU faculty on privacy research and public policy.

From 3:30 to 5 come talk with CMU faculty and students about their research at our privacy research poster session. Refreshments will be provided.