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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
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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
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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
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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]
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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
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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
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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
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Learn how to protect your privacy and defend your digital communications from government and corporate surveillance. This is a hands-on interactive workshop, so bring your phone and laptop! We'll start with a short presentation introducing threat modeling, encryption, and the current array of free and open-source
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Last Monday we welcomed three speakers from the Austin area to present on emerging security and privacy issues particular to the Internet of Things. You can watch the entire meetup here. You can view and download the presented slideshows here: * How IoT Is Changing the Internet (Michael Hathaway / Diane Bernard)
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The Internet of Things continues to grow all around us. What challenges for security, privacy, and digital rights do IoT systems present? (Updated) Michael Hathaway and Diane Bernard will co-present a detailed introduction to IoT, including their current projects in the space and vision of its future. Following this,
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Two weeks ago, Ed Cavazos led an interactive talk on the legal complexities and challenges around property, possession, and access in virtual worlds. You can watch the full video recording here thanks to our friends at Capital Factory. Ed's talk begins immediately. Discussion goes from 0:19 to