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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><font
face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">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:</font></font></p>
<br>
<font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><b>Sadia
Afroz</b> </font></font><font face="Calibri, serif"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">will</font></font><font
face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">
share her findings, “</font></font><font face="Calibri, serif"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><b>Do
You See What I See? Differential Treatment of Anonymous Users</b></font></font><font
face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">.”
</font></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><font
face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><i>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.</i></font></font></p>
</blockquote>
<font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">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.</font></font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">We’ll
also
hear from EFF activist and investigative reporter </font></font><font
face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><b>Dave
Maass</b></font></font><font face="Calibri, serif"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">
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.<br>
<br>
Finally, EFF's <b>Shahid Buttar</b> 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. <br>
</font></font>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><font
face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">Date:
March
15 </font></font>
</p>
<font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">Time:
6:00-8:00pm</font></font><font face="Calibri, serif"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><br>
Location:
EFF, 815 Eddy Street, SF</font></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><font
face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">More
info:
</font></font>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><font
face="Courier, serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2"><font
face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">[1]:
</font></font><font face="Calibri, serif"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">Sadia's
paper:</font></font><font face="Calibri, serif"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">
<a
href="https://www.internetsociety.org/sites/default/files/blogs-media/do-you-see-what-i-see-differential-treatment-anonymous-users.pdf"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.internetsociety.org/sites/default/files/blogs-media/do-you-see-what-i-see-differential-treatment-anonymous-users.pdf">https://www.internetsociety.org/sites/default/files/blogs-media/do-you-see-what-i-see-differential-treatment-anonymous-users.pdf</a></a></font></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><font
face="Courier, serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2"><font
face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">[2]:
</font></font><font face="Calibri, serif"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">Background
on the privacy risks presented by ALPR data:</font></font><font
face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">
<a
href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/license-plate-readers-exposed-how-public-safety-agencies-responded-massive"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/license-plate-readers-exposed-how-public-safety-agencies-responded-massive">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/license-plate-readers-exposed-how-public-safety-agencies-responded-massive</a></a></font></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><font
face="Courier, serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2"><font
face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">[3]:
Principles
uniting the EFA:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HCzajkYFBffnkWvtzrewJLa4EEUlCG3au0azcvsOXhA">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HCzajkYFBffnkWvtzrewJLa4EEUlCG3au0azcvsOXhA</a></font></font></font></font></p>
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<font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><br>
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.</font></font>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><font
face="Courier, serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2"><font
face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">Find
out
more: <a href="https://ta3m.org/pages/about-ta3m">https://ta3m.org/pages/about-ta3m</a>
</font></font></font></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><font
face="Courier, serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2"><font
face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">Want
to
receive these TA3M-SF updates regularly? Join our mailing
list at:
<a href="https://lists.eff.org/mailman/listinfo/ta3m-sf">https://lists.eff.org/mailman/listinfo/ta3m-sf</a><br>
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Shahid Buttar
Director of Grassroots Advocacy
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:shahid@eff.org">shahid@eff.org</a>
415 436 9333 x. 171
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