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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 HQ tonight to hear
two presentations about online and real world
surveillance, including action opportunities: <span
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"><span
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ww.eff.org/03-21-16-SF">http://ww.eff.org/03-21-16-SF</a></span></span><br>
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<font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt"
size="2">Sadia Afroz </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">Do You See
What I See? Differential Treatment of Anonymous Users</font></font><font
face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">."
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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>
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<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>
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<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">Dave Maass</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 com ply with the new law.<br>
<br>
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. <br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><font
face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt"
size="2">Date:
Monday, March 21</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>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"> </p>
<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"> <span class="moz-txt-link-freetext"><span
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"><span
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"><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></span></span></span></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"> <span
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"><span
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"><span
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"><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></span></span></span></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: <span
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"><span
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"><span
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.eff.org/EFA">https://www.eff.org/EFA</a></span></span></span><br>
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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">--------<br>
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<font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt"
size="2">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: <span
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"><span
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ta3m.org/pages/about-ta3m">https://ta3m.org/pages/about-ta3m</a></span></span><br>
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<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
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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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