[TA3M-SF] Techno-Activism Third Mondays is Back! See you next Monday 3/21 at EFF HQ

[Shahid Buttar]

Techno-Activism Third Mondays is Back! Join us at EFF this coming Monday
to hear two presentations about online and real world surveillance,
including action opportunities:


*Sadia Afroz* willshare her findings, “*Do You See What I See? 
Differential Treatment of Anonymous Users*.”

    /The second-class treatment of anonymous users ranges from outright
    rejection to limiting their access to a subset of the service’s
    functionality or imposing hurdles such as CAPTCHA-solving. To date,
    the observation of such practices has relied upon anecdotal reports
    catalogued by frustrated anonymity users. Sadia will present the
    first study to methodically enumerate and characterize the treatment
    of anonymous users as second-class Web citizens in the context of Tor./

Sadia is a researcher at the International Computer Science Institute
(ICSI), where she focuses on censorship, machine learning and privacy.
Her work was selected as a runner-up for the 2014 ACM SIGSAC
dissertation award, the 2013 Privacy Enhancing Technology (PET) award
and the best student paper award at the Privacy Enhancing Technology
Symposium (PETS) 2012.

We’ll also hear from EFF activist and investigative reporter *Dave
Maass*about an upcoming “surveillance sweep” in early April offering
anyone an opportunity to help locate and collect the privacy policies of
agencies in California using Automated License Plate Readers and/or
Stingrays and other IMSI-catchers. Under a law adopted in Sacramento
last year, every agency using such devices must publicly post a privacy
policy. The surveillance sweep is EFF’s attempt to crowdsource the
identification of which departments may have yet to comply with the new law.

Finally, EFF's *Shahid Buttar* will share a brief update on the
Electronic Frontier Alliance, a new network of grassroots groups
building the movement for digital rights on campuses and in local
communities around the country. Organized around five uniting
principles, the Alliance will bring together groups pursuing a range of
strategies and tactics, from hacker spaces crowdsourcing the open source
development of software tools, to student groups hosting teach-ins and
documentary screenings. We're eager to invite any grassroots groups in
which you're involved to participate.

Date: March 15

Time: 6:00-8:00pm
Location: EFF, 815 Eddy Street, SF

More info:

[1]: Sadia's
paper:https://www.internetsociety.org/sites/default/files/blogs-media/do-you-see-what-i-see-differential-treatment-anonymous-users.pdf

[2]: Background on the privacy risks presented by ALPR
data:https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/license-plate-readers-exposed-how-public-safety-agencies-responded-massive

[3]: Principles uniting the EFA:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HCzajkYFBffnkWvtzrewJLa4EEUlCG3au0azcvsOXhA



What is this again? Techno-Activism Third Mondays (TA3M) is an informal
meetup to connect activists and technologists who are interested in the
challenges of surveillance and censorship, and anyone interested in free
and open technology.

Find out more: https://ta3m.org/pages/about-ta3m

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-- 
Shahid Buttar
Director of Grassroots Advocacy
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
shahid at eff.org
415 436 9333 x. 171

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