Creativity and Innovation
EFF-Austin board member Heather Barfield is curating a series of short, privacy-themed plays that will run November 2nd-5th at The Vortex. A collaboration with the Goethe-Institute Washington, multiple local directors will stage a variety of short plays from international playwrights that explore the value, nature, and evolution of privacy. VORTEX
Activism
If you have visited http://www.disruptj20.org/, there’s something you should know. The Department of Justice has a warrant out for your name, IP address, home address, email address, and telephone number. Not only that--the DOJ wants to know what software you have on your computer. They want
Free Speech
It's Cracked, so take it with a grain of salt until others confirm, but there appears to a massive law enforcement censorship effort going on at Standing Rock. TL:DR - law enforcement agencies from multiple states are using planes and drones equipped with Stingrays to disrupt the
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 will be Darryl Jamail. Darryl Jamail is the Commander of the Intelligence Division of the Austin Police Department. He was commissioned in 1994 and has served in numerous assignments including: Patrol Officer, Vehicular Homicide detective, Patrol and Investigations sergeant, Internal Affairs sergeant, and Director of Cadet
Events
EFF-Austin board member Heather Barfield has conceived and directed a new play at The Vortex theater titled Privacy Settings. Based on the ancient Greek play of Prometheus Bound, Privacy Settings imagines Edward Snowden in the titular role of Prometheus, the titan whole stole fire from the gods and gifted it
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.
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