Sunshine Fest: Privacy and Transparency Panel

Explore pressing open government issues at Sunshine Fest, taking place in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, March 19 and Thursday, March 20. On March 20, join Jeramie Scott, Senior Counsel at EPIC and Director of the EPIC’s Project on Surveillance Oversight, in a breakout panel session on Privacy and Transparency. The full event schedule is available here.

Event Description: On March 20 from 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm ET, join Jeramie Scott, Senior Counsel at EPIC and Director of the EPIC’s Project on Surveillance Oversight, in a breakout panel session on Privacy and Transparency. The right to be forgotten and other privacy positions are leading to increased exemptions, such as redacting home addresses and names of law enforcement to protect them from doxing. How do we balance privacy with transparency? Jeramie will be joined by fellow panelists Frank Lo Monte of CNN; Jasmine McNealy of the University of Florida, and Richard Varn of the Coalition of Sensible Public Records Access, with Caroline Hendrie from the Society of Professional Journalists as moderator. The session will be held in Room 422, 4^th floor of the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center (555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20001).