The Location Tracking and Biometrics Conference will take place on Sunday, March 3 at Yale Law School. Judges, policymakers, practitioners, academics, and other experts will gather to consider what comes next after last year’s Supreme Court decision in U.S. v. Jones, about the constitutionality of GPS-tracking vehicles without a warrant. They will discuss various forms of location tracking and the implications of biometric identification.

 

This conference is jointly sponsored by the Information Society Project and NYU's Engelberg Center, and is supported by the Thomson Reuters Initiative on Law and Technology. For more information, contact heather.branch@yale.edu.

 

 

 

8:30 -9:00 Breakfast is available

 

9:00-9:20 Technologies of Tracking: An Introduction

 

9:30-11:00 Panel 1: The Fourth Amendment and tracking after U.S. v. Jones

Panelists: Susan Freiwald, David Gray, Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, Priscilla Smith

Moderated by Jameel Jaffer

 

11:00-11:20 Coffee

 

11:30-1:00 Panel 2: Cellular phones and mobile privacy: Government requests to carriers

Panelists: Kevin Bankston, Ed McNicholas, Stephanie Pell, Judge Stephen Smith

Moderated by Barton Gellman

 

1:00-2:30 Lunch

 

2:30-3:30 Panel 3: Cellular phones and mobile privacy: Direct government surveillance (Stingrays)

Panelists: Alan Butler, Judge Brian Owsley, Christopher Soghoian

Moderated by Jennifer Valentino-DeVries

 

3:30-3:45 Coffee

 

4:00-6:00 Panel 4: Nontrespassory tracking: Biometrics, license plate readers, and drones

Panelists: Alvaro Bedoya, Catherine Crump, Laura K. Donohue, Ralph Gross, Travis Hall, Jennifer Lynch, Nabiha Syed

Moderated by Noah Shachtman