January Meetup: Lobbying for Location Privacy in Texas

The Texas Electronic Privacy Coalition has fought to protect Texans’ digital privacy since 2013. Last session they successfully lobbied to protect emails with a search warrant. Now they’re back for more.

This session, TxEPC is lobbying to protect your sensitive GPS and cell phone location data under a warrant too. Come learn about StingRays, tower dumps, Texas politics, and how you can get involved on this important issue.

UPDATE: Audio and slides from this meeting are now available below.

Audio:

• [0:00] Introductions / Announcements
• [9:00] Gregory Foster
• [39:00] Scott Henson
• [61:20] Kathy Mitchell
• [1:25:50] Matt Simpson
• [1:38:00] Q&A, Wrap-Up

Slides:

• Gregory Foster on the tech involved in geolocation privacy issues
• Kathy Mitchell on the “Seven Philosophies” of grassroots lobbying

Speakers:

• Gregory Foster — EFF-Austin
• Kathy Mitchell — Texas Electronic Privacy Coalition (TxEPC)
• Scott Henson — Grits for Breakfast
• Matt Simpson — ACLU of Texas

Time: Monday, January 19th, 7pm-9pm
Location: Capital Factory, 701 Brazos Street, Suite 1601, Austin, TX

Validated parking is available in the Omni garage. Details:
http://capitalfactory.com/about/parking/

Suggested Reading:

• Cell Tracking — Electronic Frontier Foundation
• It’s not just the NSA: local police collect masses of data about us too — TxEPC.org
• APD: Can We Please Buy Some Top-Secret “StingRays”? — Austin Chronicle