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2022 Technology, Media, & Privacy Law Conference

2022 Technology, Media, & Privacy Law: Emerging Issues in AI and Privacy

Friday, March 25, 2022 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET

About the Technology, Media, & Privacy Law Conference

The Technology, Media, & Privacy Law Conference addresses how technological advancements are reshaping privacy and free speech issues in the fields of law, journalism, and public policy. The rapid adoption of Artificial Intelligence across government and commerce raises a host of urgent legal and ethical policy choices. This conference brings together leading scholars and practitioners to explore the opportunities and risks of entrusting crucial decisions to automation.

The TMPL conference is hosted by the Center for Governmental Responsibility (CGR) at the University of Florida Levin College of Law and the Brechner Center for Freedom of Information at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications.

The 2022 Technology, Media & Privacy Conference will be held virtually via Zoom. Registration is free. Please register here.  CLE credits: 7.0 General credits and 7.0 Technology credits from The Florida Bar.

View/download the speaker information here.

2022 Conference Schedule:

Friday March 25, 2021
  • 8:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. ET | Welcome Address and Introductions
    • Hub Brown, Dean, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications
    • Jon Mills, Professor and Director, Center for Governmental Responsibility, University of Florida Levin College of Law
    • Laura Rosenbury, Dean, University of Florida Levin College of Law

 

  • 8:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. ET | Session 1: Global Issues in AI and Government Services: Privacy, Consumer Protection, and Discrimination

This panel will examine the role of AI in government services. These can include teacher hiring evaluations, granting benefits, and use of algorithmic services for immigration and refugee screening.

    • Stephanie Bornstein, Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law
    • Mark Cole, Professor for Media and Telecommunication Law, University of Luxembourg
    • Dragana Kaurin, Founder and Executive Director, Localization Lab
    • Russell L. Weaver, Professor of Law and Distinguished University Scholar, University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law
  • 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. ET | Session 2: AI, Trust, and the Newsroom

This panel will explore the outcomes and implications of the use of AI by journalists, both as watchdogs and incorporating AI into the gathering and creation of content.

    • Janet Coats, Managing Director – Consortium on Trust in Media and Technology, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (Moderator)
    • Caitlin Ring Carlson, Associate Professor, Communication, Seattle University
    • Amy Gajda, Class of 1937 Professor of Law, Tulane University Law School
    • Aimee Rinehart, AI Program Manager , The Associated Press
    • Amy K. Sanders, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin School of Journalism and Media

 

  • 12:30 p.m.– 1:30 p.m. ET | Keynote: Reporting from a Future Privacy Dystopia
    • Kashmir Hill, Tech Reporter, New York Times with commentary by Jeff Kosseff, Associate Professor of Cybersecurity, United States Naval Academy

 

  • 1:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. ET | Session 3: Emerging Issues in AI and Law Enforcement: Anticipatory policing, national security surveillance, and Constitutional Rights to Privacy

This panel will examine the role of AI in law enforcement at both a state and federal level, including national security implications.

    • Jon Mills, Professor and Director, Center for Governmental Responsibility, University of Florida Levin College of Law
    • Kendra Albert, Clinical Instructor and Director for the Initiative for a Representative First Amendment, Harvard University Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society
    • Sohan Dasgupta, Former Deputy General Counsel, Department of Homeland Security Official
    • Jonathan Barry-Blocker, Visiting Legal Skills Professor, University of Florida Levin College of Law
    • Margaret Hu, Professor of Law, Pennsylvania State University Law School

 

  • 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. ET | Session 4: Emerging Issues in AI + Entertainment: Social Media, Regulation, and Democracy

This panel will explore the use of algorithmic tools on social media platforms and the implications for governance, public health, and participation.

    • Jasmine McNealy, Associate Professor, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications
    • Aaron Wasser, Member of Legislation & Strategy Team, Meta
    • Anika Navaroli, Senior Policy Manager, Twitch
    • Stacey B. Steinberg, Master Legal Skills Professor, University of Florida Levin College of Law
    • Kearston L. Wesner, Associate Professor of Media Studies, Quinnipiac University
The speaker lineup is subject to change.

View the recording of the 2021 Conference morning session  here.

View the recording of the 2021 Conference afternoon session here.

Published: February 22nd, 2022

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The Florida Constitutional Law Endowment in memory of Justice Ben F. Overton was created by Judge Karen Miller in 2013. This fund supports lectures and presentations by Justices of the Florida Supreme Court at the Fredric G. Levin College of Law.

HISTORY

Justice Overton, who earned his B.S. in 1951 and his Juris Doctor in 1952 from the University of Florida, was the first merit appointment to the Florida Supreme Court. Throughout his career he was active in legal education and served as an Adjunct Professor at the Levin College of Law through December 2012, the month of his death. Although he resided at Oak Hammock at the University of Florida, a continuing care retirement community developed in cooperation with UF, he also considered the Florida Supreme Court “home.” Among the high points of his later years was hosting Justices of the Florida Supreme Court in Gainesville and taking his class to Tallahassee to hear oral arguments at the Florida Supreme Court.
Judge Miller, who earned her B.S. cum laude from New York University in 1974 and her Juris Doctor from New York Law School in 1977, served as Chief Administrative Law Judge of the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, New York City’s business regulatory agency, before she retired to Oak Hammock at the University of Florida. Having accompanied Justice Overton on his excursions to Tallahassee and joined him in welcoming guests to Oak Hammock at the University of Florida, she created the endowment in memory of Justice Overton to ensure that the Levin College of Law continues to have the funding necessary to continue and enhance the interaction between its students and the Florida Supreme Court.

 

Judge Miller remembered the event that motivated the endowment.

 

Prior to a dinner at the home of Dean Robert Jerry and Lisa Jerry shortly after Justice Overton’s death, Justice Barbara Pariente and I were discussing a suitable memorial. Justice Pariente, who had been Justice Overton’s colleague on the Florida Supreme Court and who understood the importance to him of the interaction between his students and the Court, suggested the outline of what has become the Overton lectures. Dean Jerry, who has since retired, as has Dean Emeritus Jon Mills, who assumed responsibility for implementing the Overton lectures, were very supportive from the beginning. Since Dean Mills’ retirement, Professor Timothy McClendon, who assisted both Justice Overton and Dean Mills teaching Florida Constitutional Law and who co-authored the recent Florida Constitutional Law casebook, has continued the Overton lectures with the support of Interim Dean Merritt McAlister and CGR director, Professor Danaya Wright.

Justice Overton was a devoted jurist, educator, and ethical leader of the Florida legal profession. The Overton Lecture Series brings Florida Supreme Court Justices to the University of Florida, Levin College of Law, and serves to introduce students to the inner workings of the Court. CGR and the students of the College of Law extend our deepest gratitude to Judge Karen Miller for making the Overton Lectures possible in perpetuity.

You can watch an interview for the Florida Historical Society by Mary Adkins, professor emeritus of the UF Levin College of Law, with Justice Overton here.

Justice Overton was also interviewed for the Samuel Proctor Oral History Project and a transcript of his interview is available at the Smathers Library, and here.
Justice Overton sat on the Constitution Revision Commission of 1977-78 that proposed a right to privacy in the Florida Constitution. Although it failed as part of the Constitution Revision Commission recommendations, it passed in 1980 when proposed by the legislature. The bill was co-sponsored by our very own Jon Mills. The privacy provision prevailed by greater than 60%. Justice Overton then wrote a concurrence in a critical reproductive rights case in 1989 affirming that the privacy provision of the Florida Constitution included the right to obtain an abortion. That decision was overruled in Planned Parenthood of SW and Central Florida v. Florida. You can read about the role of Justice Overton, Jon Mills – director emeritus of CGR, and the history of the 1989 case here.