Subject: invitation
From: David Vladeck <[email-masked]>
To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 14:06:00 +0000

Dear John - I know how busy you are, but I want to invite you to do the closing remarks (at about 5 pm) for a conference the law center is holding to celebrate the  40th Anniversary of the Privacy Act and the '74 Amendments to FOIA.   The conference will be held on Oct. 30, a Thursday.  The last panel will focus on the future of information regulation in the US, and there is no one better to sum up where the Administration would like to see information policy develop then you.  This would not be heavy lifting.  You'd have 15 or 20 minutes, and my thought is that you could summarize the big data recommendations in a few minutes, and then turn to the Administration's interest in moving FOIA from a requester-driven statute to one where the government itself makes information public without the formality of a request.  It would be great for the law school if you could participate.  Thanks for considering this.  All my best, David