Dr. Fred Cate's talk will focus on the current state of data protection. He will analyze the role that consent plays in data protection and privacy today and consider how we manage consent in a world where inferences are constantly being made about us. In a chaotic world, he emphasizes that it is important that we ask for consent in meaningful and effective ways. Fred H. Cate is Vice President for Research, Distinguished Professor, and C. Ben Dutton Professor of Law at Indiana University. He specializes in information security and privacy law and has testified before numerous congressional committees and served on many advisory groups for corporations, governmental and international organizations. From 2003 to 2014, he was the founding director of IU's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, where he is now a senior fellow. He is also a senior policy advisor to the Center for Information Policy Leadership and a founding editor of the Oxford University Press journal International Data Privacy Law.

He is the author of more than 200 articles and books, including most recently Bulk Collection: Systematic Government Access to Private-Sector Data (with Jim Dempsey), published by Oxford University Press in 2017. Professor Cate attended Oxford University and received his JD and AB with distinction from Stanford University. A former Senator and President of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, he is a Fellow of Phi Beta Kappa and the American Bar Foundation, and an elected member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Law Institute. This talk was delivered at a TEDx event that used the TED conference format but was independently organized by a local community. For more information, visit https://www.ted.com/tedx

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