Today Monday October 3 2016 the White House is a hosting South By South Lawn – a day long “festival of ideas, art, and action”. As part of the festivities two panels will be livestreamed, on facebook, and YouTube. Twitter: #SXSL
South By South Lawn: Panel 1 – Fixing Real Problems
Moderator: Jenna Wortham, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. Panelists: Stewart Butterfield, co-founder and CEO of Slack, Jukay Hsu, founder of Coalition for Queens (C4Q); Chris Redlitz, managing partner of Transmedia Capital; Nina Tandon, co-founder and CEO of EpiBone.
South By South Lawn: Panel 2 – Feeding the Future
Moderator: Danielle Gould, founder of Food+Tech Connect. Panelists: Will Allen, farmer, founder and CEO of Growing Power; Maria Rose Belding, co-founder and executive director of the MEANS Database; Caleb Harper, principal investigator and director of the Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAG) at the MIT Media Lab; Nikiko Masumoto, organic farmer and agrarian artist.
Welcome and Introduction (30 mins) – John Hennessy, President, Stanford University; Lisa Monaco, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism; Jeffrey Zients, Director, National Economic Council View on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/KlTo9hFAFXs?start=961&end=2721&autoplay=1
Public-Private Collaboration on Cybersecurity (46 mins) – Kenneth Chenault, Chairman and CEO, American Express; Anthony Earley, Jr., Chairman and CEO, Pacific Gas & Electric; Mark McLaughlin, President and CEO, Palo Alto Networks; Bernard J. Tyson, Chairman and CEO, Kaiser Permanente; Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy; Moderator: Jeh Johnson, Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. View on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/KlTo9hFAFXs?start=2749&end=5526&autoplay=1
Improving Cybersecurity Practices at Consumer Oriented Businesses and Organizations (49 mins)
Ajay Banga, President and CEO, MasterCard; Peter Hancock, President and CEO, AIG; Renee James, President, Intel; Brian Moynihan, Chairman and CEO, Bank of America; Nuala O’Connor, President and CEO, Center for Democracy & Technology; Moderator: Penny Pritzker, Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce. View on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/KlTo9hFAFXs?start=5655&end=8586&autoplay=1
Promoting More Secure Payment Technologies (49 mins) – Richard Davis, Chairman and CEO, US Bank; Mike George, CEO and President, QVC; Alexander Gourlay, President, Walgreens; Charles Scharf, CEO, Visa; Dan Schulman, President and CEO, PayPal; Moderator: Sarah Bloom Raskin, Deputy Secretary ,U.S. Department of Treasury. View on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/KlTo9hFAFXs?start=20963&end=23906&autoplay=1
Cyber Security as a Business Differentiator (33 mins) – John Holdren, Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Patricia Falcone, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Aaron Levie, CEO and Co-Founder, Box; Michelle Zatlyn, Co-Founder, CloudFlare; View on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/KlTo9hFAFXs?start=24097&end=26063&autoplay=1
International Law Enforcement Cooperation (33 mins) – Joseph Demarest, Federal Bureau of Investigation; Ed Lowery, U.S. Secret Service; Kevin Mandia, Former CEO, Mandiant; Senior VP and COO, FireEye; Jamie Saunders, Director National Cyber Crime Unit, United Kingdom National Crime Agency; Bilal Sen, United Nations Office of Drug and Crime; Moderator: Leslie Caldwell, Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice. View on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/KlTo9hFAFXs?start=26441&end=29079&autoplay=1
On November 10 2014 President Obama issued a statement of support for net neutrality, invoking four “bright line” rules: No blocking; No throttling; Increased transparency; and No paid prioritization. Later in the day Senior Advisor for Technology and Economic Policy David Edelman did aReddit AMA to answer questions about the statement. Video of Obama’s comments about his statement is below. It has English closed captions.
Advance the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights. The Department of Commerce should take appropriate consultative steps to seek stakeholder and public comment on big data developments and how they impact the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights and then devise draft legislative text for consideration by stakeholders and submission by the President to Congress.
Pass National Data Breach Legislation. Congress should pass legislation that provides for a single national data breach standard along the lines of the Administration’s May 2011 Cybersecurity legislative proposal.
Extend Privacy Protections to non-U.S. Persons. The Office of Management and Budget should work with departments and agencies to apply the Privacy Act of 1974 to non-U.S. persons where practicable, or to establish alternative privacy policies that apply appropriate and meaningful protections to personal information regardless of a person’s nationality.
Ensure Data Collected on Students in School is Used for Educational Purposes. The federal government must ensure that privacy regulations protect students against having their data being shared or used inappropriately, especially when the data is gathered in an educational context.
Expand Technical Expertise to Stop Discrimination. The federal government’s lead civil rights and consumer protection agencies should expand their technical expertise to be able to identify practices and outcomes facilitated by big data analytics that have a discriminatory impact on protected classes, and develop a plan for investigating and resolving violations of law.
Amend the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. Congress should amend ECPA to ensure the standard of protection for online, digital content is consistent with that afforded in the physical world – including by removing archaic distinctions between email left unread or over a certain age.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is seeking to nearly double the wireless communications spectrum available for commercial use over the next 10 years, an effort that could greatly enhance the ability of consumers to send and receive video and data with smartphones and other hand-held devices.
President Obama will sign a presidential memorandum on Monday that aims to make available for auction some 500 megahertz of spectrum that is now controlled by the federal government and private companies, administration officials said Sunday.
Specifically, the presidential memorandum will direct the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to identify federally controlled communications bands that can be made available within five years for exclusive or shared use by commercial companies.
Roughly 45 percent of the spectrum to be auctioned would come from federal government agencies that will be asked to give up allocations that they are not using or could share, according to administration officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity so as not to upstage the announcement.
The remainder would come from unused spectrum already scheduled for auction or from broadcasters and other spectrum licensees who would be offered incentives to give up or share parts of their communications airwaves. Currently, the spectrum for wireless communications is about 547 megahertz.
Lawrence H. Summers, the director of the National Economic Council and assistant to the president for economic policy, is expected to detail the broadband effort in a lunchtime speech in Washington to the New America Foundation, a public policy institute
Some spectrum also would be made available for free, unlicensed use by start-up companies and others, administration officials said. Such unlicensed spectrum has previously helped in the development of cordless phones, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth applications.
Harold Feld, legal director of Public Knowledge, a consumer-oriented policy group, said the interest of consumers will be most helped by auctions that help to promote competition between wireless companies rather than entrenching the dominant providers in the market.
Today Monday October 3 2016 the White House is a hosting South By South Lawn – a day long “festival of ideas, art, and action”. As part of the festivities two panels will be livestreamed, on facebook, and YouTube. Twitter: #SXSL
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