Events matching tag "surveillance"
Saturday, March 8
Ongoing revelations about NSA surveillance have heightened awareness about the security vulnerabilities in our mobile devices. Most consumers don’t know how their favorite devices work and are inclined to fear the worst …
Intermediate
Presenters
Jaclyn Louis, Jonathan Godfrey, Sonny Sinha
On Thursday, June 6, 2013, the PRISM story broke, shattering any trust we had in the US government with regards to online privacy. At a pinnacle point in technological advancement, the tech industry is now faced with the…
Intermediate
Presenters
Brad Burnham, Matthew Prince, Nicholas Merrill, Trevor Timm
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP23825 Ed…
Intermediate
Presenters
Julian Sanchez, Robert Chesney, Susan Landau, Timothy Edgar
Documents leaked by Edward Snowden show that the NSA is engaging in an unprecedented breach of our privacy, gathering data about every telephone conversation and online transaction it can. But don't worry, says President…
Intermediate
Presenters
Chris Conley, Evan Greer
Sunday, March 9
Can the NSA, the police, and private companies really do that? From PRISM to drones to ‘Stingrays’ that snoop on cell phones, join us at the movies for a close look at how surveillance has caught up with the fables dream…
Intermediate
Presenters
Kashmir Hill, Matthew Cagle, Nicole Ozer
We are currently moving out of a period of “Peak Privacy,” and into an era of “Peak Surveillance.” Encryption and other protective capabilities previously available only to governments, the super-rich, and hackers are no…
Intermediate
Presenters
Andrew Delamarter
Monday, March 10
Gellman is one of three reporters entrusted by Edward Snowden last May with top secret NSA archives. In December, he was the first to interview Snowden face to face in Moscow. Nine months after breaking the PRISM story i…
Advanced
Presenters
Barton Gellman, Cory Doctorow
Bradley Manning, Wikileaks and the Snowden/ PRISM revelations pulled back the curtain on the specific workings of a technology based surveillance culture that continues to expand globally every day with significant socie…
Intermediate
Presenters
Adam Harvey, Colin Nagy, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Kyle McDonald
In 1791, when Jeremy Bentham designed the panopticon prison system, he considered it a mechanism of power that acted directly on individuals, granting its controller “the power of mind over mind.” In the panopticon priso…
Intermediate
Presenters
Ceren Paydas
The government is tracking who you call and when. Snoops are reading your emails. Internet companies like Facebook, Google, and Yahoo are working with companies you’ve never heard of to compile deep, secret profiles of m…
Intermediate
Presenters
Josh Levy, Kade Crockford, Nadia Kayyali, Nathan Freitas
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