Events
EFF-Austin is hosting a Security Workshop at UT Law (Townes Hall 2.138) in conjunction with Open Austin. Our speakers will be Alex Shahrestani and Justin Laden. They will be discussing attorney client privilege in regards to digital communications, best actions to prevent and react to privacy breaches, and cloud
Privacy
Just when you thought your privacy was safer choosing Android over iPhone.
Free Speech
This is why a surveillance state can't be allowed to exist, it only works if the people running it are benevolent. A madman has been given the keys to the surveillance state
Events
Our speaker this month (Monday, July 11th) will be Rich MacKinnon. Rich is a former president of EFF-Austin and former member of the boards of the ACLU of Texas and the Central Texas Civil Liberties Project. He was present at the founding of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in the Los
Privacy
Watch Edward Snowden teach you how to mod your phone so that if it's been hacked you can no longer be seen or overheard. http://www.wired.com/2016/05/snowden-vice-cell-phone-hack/
Privacy
The ethics of the mass adoption of facial recognition software and what it means for people's right to privacy and the rise of the surveillance state are questions we're going to have to grapple with sooner rather than later. http://boingboing.net/2016/05/18/russian-face-recognition-app.
Creativity and Innovation
Be careful if you sign up for Apple Music. Apparently, Apple believes that signing up for the service gives them the right to delete all the music files from your computer, even ones that are songs you personally created. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/apple-stole-my-music-no-s_b_9873638
Privacy
Locking your iPhone with your fingerprint as opposed to a passcode might not be as secure as you thought it was. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/05/iphone-fingerprint-search-warrant/480861/
Government 2.0
The CIA is investing in several tech companies working on mining social media such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc., with the purpose of determining "networks of association, centers of influence and potential signs of radicalization.” https://theintercept.com/2016/04/14/in-undisclosed-cia-investments-social-media-mining-looms-large/
Privacy
Brendan Eich, inventor of Javascript and co-founder of Mozilla, is working on a new, open-source, experimental browser named Brave that enforces a model where third party ads must comply with a browser's Do Not Track settings. If they do not, the browser replaces them with ads that do
Privacy
If you've got 90 minutes to spare, this looks like a great discussion with Richard Stallman of GNU and FSF fame about EME, also known as DRM in the HTML5 standard, and why such systems of software control leave us all worse off. https://boingboing.net/2016/04/
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