Events
Our speaker this month will be Kathy Mitchell. Kathy is a volunteer with the Texas Electronic Privacy Coalition working to require police to get a warrant to access cell phone location data. She was a policy analyst on Open Government issues for Consumers Union for several years and led public
Creativity and Innovation
Agoratopia What is the Internet's future? Originally a research and development-focused network of networks, the Internet has evolved since the early 90s as an engine for commerce and platform for digital media, which is pretty much all media post-digital convergence. As social media emerged to support networks of
Events
EFF-Austin is throwing a big, old Holiday party on Thursday, December 17th, from 7:00pm-9:00pm in the backroom of The Cedar Door at 201 Brazos Street, and we'd love for you to join us! We will have a full open bar for our guests to make use
Events
Date: Monday, November 16, 2015 Time: 7PM Location: Capital Factory Our speaker this month will be radio personality Jimmy Preston, host of 100 Proof Radio on KTSW 89.9FM and producer at Double Punch Kick Productions. http://ktsw.txstate.edu/programming/specialtyshows.html http://www.doublepunchkick.com/bios.php Jimmy
Privacy
Arundhati Roy quites Edward Snowden from a meeting in Moscow: Ed spoke at some length about “sleepwalking into a total surveillance state”. And here I quote him, because he’s said this often before: “If we do nothing, we sort of sleepwalk into a total surveillance state where we have
Events
For this month's meetup, David Glassco will talk to us about Neobase, his company's new product that provides a secure communications hub for your home. He will also have a Neobase on hand that meeting participants can demo. Neobase's creation was motivated by David&
Events
Time: Monday, September 21st, 7:00pm-9:00pm, Capital Factory Our speaker this month will be ACLU organizer, advocate and lobbyist Lesley Ramsey. Lesley will talk about the ACLU's work on privacy and technology and their upcoming conference in Austin on these topics. Lesley Nicole Ramsey has spent the
Activism
On March 9, 2010, EFF-Austin sponsored an event celebrating the 20th anniversary of the raid on Steve Jackson Games, which became the Electronic Frontier Foundation's first prominent case when Steve sued the U.S. Secret Service, and which inspired the founding of EFF-Austin. Our event included a panel
Events
How does a journalist get his facts? Investigative journalist Ken Martin of The Austin Bulldog walks through actual investigations behind the stories he's written. For example, the Austin City Council’s violations of the Texas Open Meetings Act that resulted in an immediate county attorney’s investigation that
Events
EFF-Austin Celebrates The 25th Anniversary Of The Electronic Frontier Foundation At Black Star Co-op Twenty five years ago marks the founding of The Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco, one of the nation's foremost defenders and advocates for digital rights. Shortly thereafter, EFF-Austin was founded as the first
Events
EFF-Austin will have no meetup in June. We'll have information about our July meetup soon!
Creativity and Innovation
For our May meetup, we have invited two Digital Archivists from the University of Texas to lead a discussion on a vast and unique challenge — preserving the huge, complex, and rapidly growing volume of information that our modern culture produces. Video Now Available * [0:00] Intro / Announcements * [10:42] Jennifer