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This Week In Tech: Innovation, Privacy & Civil Liberties

Thought leaders from the private and public sectors will convene in Washington on Monday to discuss how the Obama administration and the new Congress can broaden innovation in the United States and use the ongoing economic crisis as a catalyst to drive new investments in technology. The day-long forum is sponsored by the Economic Policy Institute, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, the Breakthrough Institute, the University of California and the Ford Foundation.

Speakers include UC administrators, ITIF President Robert Atkinson, Sun Microsystems senior vice president David Douglas, venture capitalist Victor Hwang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist Michael Piore and many others. At the event, UC researchers Fred Block and Matthew Keller will release a report that examines government's role in promoting innovation; the extent to which weaknesses in the U.S. system has affected deployment of new technologies; and what steps a new administration should take to ensure innovation to foster global leadership.

Meanwhile, on Wednesday the majority staff of the House Homeland Security Committee will host a series of discussions on the future of privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties at the Homeland Security Department. Topics include protecting civil liberties in a natural disaster; privacy implications of data-mining; privacy, domestic intelligence and information sharing; transportation security, privacy and civil liberties; border security, privacy and civil liberties; and cyber security. Click here for the full agenda.

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