Join Silicon Flatirons on Friday, November 4 for a conference on transparency and the tech sector: specifically, the role transparency can and should play in regulating technologies. This conference brings together transparency enthusiasts with transparency skeptics. It will discuss what transparency mechanisms we already have, and what we need. The conference aims to educate and inspire collaboration, drawing experts together across multiple areas of law and multiple fields.
This conference is made possible in part by the support of The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
John S. and James L. Knight believed a well-informed community could best determine its own true interests and was essential to an effective democracy. Today, the foundation bearing their names is a leading investor in the field of research emerging around questions of information integrity, media, and democratic citizenship in the digital age. To date, Knight has committed more than $60 million to support this field through an expansive consortium of academic researchers and policy experts known as the Knight Research Network. Learn more about Knight Foundation and its work in communities, journalism and the arts at kf.org.
Sessions
11/04/22 9:00am - 9:15am
11/04/22 9:15am - 10:30am
Why Transparency?
- David Sullivan — Moderator
Executive Director, Digital Trust & Safety Partnership - Evelyn Douek — Panelist
Assistant Professor, Stanford Law School - Daphne Keller — Panelist
Director, Program on Platform Regulation, Stanford Cyber Policy Center - Bri Riggio — Panelist
Platform Policy Manager, Discord, Inc. - Alexandria Walden — Panelist
Global Head of Human Rights, Google
Panel I will discuss the goals of transparency: why there are calls for transparency in the first place, and what regulators, private companies, and the public get from transparency requirements or voluntary disclosures.
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- David Sullivan
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- Evelyn Douek
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- Daphne Keller
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- Bri Riggio
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- Alexandria Walden
11/04/22 10:30am - 10:45am
Break
11/04/22 10:45am - 12:00pm
11/04/22 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Lunch Break
@ Wolf Law, Boettcher Hall
Lunch provided for conference attendees.
11/04/22 1:00pm - 2:15pm
The Shapes of Transparency
- Margot Kaminski — Moderator
Professor, University of Colorado Law School - Jef Ausloos — Panelist
Senior Researcher, University of Amsterdam - Institute for Information Law (IViR) - Rachael Johnson — Panelist
Local Legal Initiative Attorney, The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP) - Andrea Maciejewski — Panelist
Associate, Greenberg Traurig, LLP - Bryan Semaan — Panelist
Associate Professor, University of Colorado Boulder - Amanda Shanor — Panelist
Assistant Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Panel II will discuss the many forms transparency can take, from data subject access requests to open government litigation to SEC disclosure requirements, and more. This panel will discuss details about what works and what doesn’t.
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- Margot Kaminski
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- Jef Ausloos
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- Rachael Johnson
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- Andrea Maciejewski
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- Bryan Semaan
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- Amanda Shanor
11/04/22 2:15pm - 2:30pm
Break
11/04/22 2:30pm - 3:45pm
Transparency’s Tradeoffs
- Meg Leta Jones — Moderator
Associate Professor, Georgetown University - Hannah Bloch-Wehba — Panelist
Associate Professor, Texas A&M University School of Law - Eric Goldman — Panelist
Professor | Associate Dean for Research, Santa Clara University School of Law - Patty Limerick — Panelist
Professor of History, University of Colorado Boulder - Emily McReynolds — Panelist
AI Policy & Research, Meta - Christopher Morten — Panelist
Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Panel III will discuss transparency’s tradeoffs, addressing both what is lost when everything is transparent, and what limits should be placed on transparency.
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- Meg Leta Jones
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- Hannah Bloch-Wehba
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- Eric Goldman
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- Patty Limerick
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- Christopher Morten
11/04/22 3:45pm - 4:00pm
Break
11/04/22 4:00pm - 5:00pm
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