The Centre for Innovation Law and Policy
at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law presents:
Fall 2011 Cloud Computing Conference: Law and Policy Issues in the Cloud
Friday October 14th, 2011 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Bennett Lecture Hall, Flavelle House, 78 Queen’s Park Avenue,
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
Keynote Speaker: Ken Anderson
Assistant Commissioner and General Counsel:
Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario
* UPDATE* Live webcast of the Conference.
The Conference agenda is now available.
The increasing popularity of storing large amounts of data in a virtualized “cloud” environment raises important and potentially new law and policy issues in such areas as jurisdiction, privacy and security, competition law, data portability and consumer protection, intellectual property and law enforcement.
The Centre for Innovation Law and Policy at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law will host a conference on Friday, October 14, 2011 focusing primarily on the new law and policy problems and issues that cloud computing technology and its popularity create. In focusing on these new issues and problems, the conference will aim to bring clarification and suggest solutions to them, and to distinguish them from the internet and computer law and policy issues already discussed before the advent of cloud computing. The conference will consequently question whether this relatively new model of computing in the “cloud” necessitates a revision of computer and internet laws and policy.
While the conference will offer Canadian perspectives on these law and policy issues, given the multi-jurisdictional nature of cloud computing, the conference will also feature discussion of relevant law and policy from a variety of jurisdictions. Panellists will include speakers from academia, government, corporations, and legal practice.
The conference is sponsored by the Microsoft Information Society Project.
The Conference is free to attend, but registration is required. Click here to register.
For more information, see the Conference website or contact Giselle Chin at giselle.chin@utoronto.ca
