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
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
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
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
Events
For our April meetup, we invited APD Commander Ely Reyes, activist Debbie Russell, and community organizer Andrew Bucknall to lead a discussion on the push for law enforcement officers to wear body cameras, examining the implications for civil liberties, privacy, public safety, and police accountability. Video Now Available * [12:05]
Events
For our March meetup, in collaboration with EFF we hosted a "Salon" event during the SXSW festival. Speakers included NSA Whistleblower William Binney, writer Bruce Sterling, and many other advocates for civil liberties on the electronic frontier. Theme: Freedom and privacy on the Electronic Frontier are facing their
Events
For our February meetup, technology lawyer and writer Chris Brown will examine how the blockchain (Bitcoin's core technology) is spreading into other areas—from programmable money and smart property to distributed corporations and voting systems—and explore the implications for cyberliberties. Christopher Brown is a technology business lawyer
Activism
San Francisco - Leading digital rights champion and author Cory Doctorow has rejoined the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to battle the pervasive use of dangerous digital rights management (DRM) technologies that threaten users' security and privacy, distort markets, confiscate public rights, and undermine innovation. Doctorow will be a special consultant
Events
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
Privacy
Discovered that this interview is no longer findable online, so I'm republishing it here. A version of this was published in bOING bOING (the 'zine) in 1993 or 1994. We were sitting in a circle on the floor at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference, March '