On Monday July 15 2019 at 5pm EDT (21:00 UTC) the 31st International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (CAV) and the Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms at TU Wien (VCLA) present a talk: Spouseware and Stalkerware – Where Do We Go From Here? at the New School in NYC.

Powerful surveillance software aka spyware is widely available on the internet at affordable prices. It is marketed to employers wanting to monitor the movements of their workers, to parents wanting to check electronically on the whereabouts of their children, or even to reveal a partner’s infidelity. Where do the tech community, the police, and the policymakers stand on the issue of surveillance for private purposes? How much such usage/marketing is legal? And, lastly, how do you safeguard yourself against an attack? Speaker Eva Galperin, Director of Cybersecurity at Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), will address these questions and more.

The event will be webcast live on the Internet Society Livestream Channel.

VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/logicloungeny

TWITTER: #LogicLoungeNY http://bit.ly/logicloungeny

ABOUT LOGIC LOUNGE
The LogicLounge was born at the Vienna Summer of Logic in 2014, which brought together almost 3000 scientists in the fields of logic, philosophy, mathematics, computer science, and artificial intelligence. Since then it has been traveling the world as a regular event at the Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV). The LogicLounge series is organized by Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms at TU Wien, Austria. The recordings of past LogicLounges with Toby Walsh, Dana Scott, and others are available at http://www.vcla.at/logiclounge/

#eff, #eva-galperin, #new-school, #privacy, #spyware, #surveillance

Today Wednesday November 16 2016 the Internet Society San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (SFBayISOC) will present Shadow Regulation. keynote speakers from the EFF, Mitch Stoltz and Jeremy Malcolm will be taking us through Shadow Regulation and discussing the regulation of Internet content through ICANN and the domain name system (DNS). The event will be webcast live on the Internet Society Livestream Channel.

What: Shadow Regulation
Where: EFF, San Francisco
When: Wednesday November 16 2016 6pm PST | 02:00 UTC | 9pm EST
Webcast: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/SFBayISOC
Twitter: #SFBayISOC https://twitter.com/hashtag/SfBayIsoc

#dns, #eff, #icann

On October 2 2013 the Internet Society San Francisco Bay Area Chapter and CNET hosted INET San Francisco – a live discussion on the complex implications of Government Internet surveillance.

INET San Francisco comprised two components: first, a discussion featuring two experts on public policy and cyber surveillance. Alexander Abdo, a staff attorney with the National Security Program for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Nate Cardozo, Staff Attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF) digital civil liberties team.; second, a panel took audience questions and discussed the relative merits of each speaker’s proposed approach. Panelists: Susan Freiwald, Professor, University of San Francisco Law School , Matthew Sundquist, Former Facebook Privacy Team Member and Co-founder of Plot.ly, Declan McCullagh (moderator), Chief Political Correspondent, CNET, and Paul Brigner, North America Regional Bureau Director, Internet Society.  The event was webcast live on the Internet Society livestream channel. Video is below.

View on YouTube: http://youtu.be/qlX_TsEDcds
Transcribe on AMARA: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/QWj7OK0pRFar/
Agenda: http://www.internetsociety.org/inet-san-francisco/sessions
Twitter: #inetsf | #surveillance

#aclu, #declan-mccullagh, #eff, #inet, #internet-freedom, #paul-brigner, #sf-isoc, #surveillance

Today, Wednesday October 23 2013, the ISOC-NY TV show will  present an edited version of the webcast of the Cyber Surveillance Public Forum hosted by our SF Bay Area Chapter on October 2 2013. The discussion features two experts on public policy and cyber surveillance -Alexander Abdo, a staff attorney with the National Security Program for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and Nate Cardozo, Staff Attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF) digital civil liberties team, moderated by Declan McCullagh, Chief Political Correspondent, CNET. The show, which airs from 2-3pm, may be viewed via Manhattan Cable or online via the MNN website.

What: ISOC-NY TV Show – Cyber Surveillance Public Forum
Where: Manhattan Neighborhood Network
When: Wednesday October 23 2013 2pm-3pm EDT | 1800-1900 UTC
Manhattan Cable: TWC 56 | RCN 83 | FiOS 34
Webcast: http://www.mnn.org/live/2-lifestyle-channel

#aclu, #eff, #isoc-ny-tv, #sf-isoc, #surveillance

The Internet Society’s New York Chapter (ISOC-NY) and the New York Technology Council (NYTECH) joined the Public Interest Registry (PIR) in presenting a midday symposium “Mitigating DDoS Attacks: Best Practices for an Evolving Threat Landscape” in New York City on December 5 2012. Participating organizations include Afilias, Google, Neustar, M3AAWG, Symantec, EFF, and De Natris Consult.   The event was webcast live via the Internet Society Chapters Livestream Channel. Audio / transcript links are below.  English Closed captions are available.
MODERATOR
Brian Cute – CEO, Public Interest Registry (PIR)

SPEAKERS
Jeff Greene – Senior Policy Counsel, Symantec
Ram Mohan – EVP & Chief Technology Officer, Afilias
Damian Menscher — Security Engineer, Google
Miguel Ramos – Senior Product Manager, Neustar
Danny McPherson – Chief Security Officer, Verisign
Jillian York – Director for International Freedom of Expression, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

• View on YouTube: https://youtu.be/FR0660X9lGc
• Download audio : https://isoc-ny.org/ddos/mitigating_ddos.mp3
• Download transcript: https://isoc-ny.org/ddos/mitigating_ddos.txt
• AMARA – Captioning / Translation

#cybersecurity, #ddos, #eff, #event, #m3aawg, #neustar, #nyc, #nytech, #pir, #security

On April 27 2012, the day after CISPA passed in the U.S. House of Representatives, EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow was interviewed on Russia Today’s Alyona show.

#alyona, #cispa, #eff, #john-perry-barlow

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has responded to the July 6  “Memorandum of Understanding” (MOU) between big content and ISP’s that outlined a graduated response scheme of “copyright alerts” for enforcing user compliance with respect to content distribution models.   The responses detailed include notices, education and, ultimately, restrictions on access.  The EFF notes the involvement of NY Governor Andrew Cuomo in the process, no doubt building on his earlier success of removing Usenet from all local major ISPs.

The EFF’s main bones of contention are that 1) the “education” involved is big content propaganda and omits all mentions of fair use or other adverse legal aspects; 2) that the public was at no point consulted in the process. It is noted that, on the latter point, that the Center for Copyright Information (CCI),  set up to administrate the six-strikes system,will have a three-person advisory board to voice the concerns “from relevant subject matter and consumer interest communities.” The subscribers, who’s fees will be paying for the entire effort, and who will be subject to its mandates, have no direct representation whatsoever.

Why representation? Noting an egregious lack of due process in the provisions the EFF suggests that, if the public had been consulted, some of the following considerations might have been included:

• The burden should be on the content owners to establish infringement, not on the subscribers to disprove infringement.
• Subscribers should be able to assert the full range of defenses to copyright infringement.
• Content owners should be accountable if they submit incorrect infringement notices.
• Subscribers should have adequate time to prepare a defense.
• There should be adequate assurances that the reviewers are neutral.

Read more: The “Graduated Response” Deal: What if Users Had Been At the Table?

#6-strikes, #copyright, #copyright-alerts, #cuomo, #eff, #internet-freedom

Kevin Bankston of the EFF reports a landmark decision issued today in the criminal appeal of U.S. v. Warshak, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the government must have a search warrant before it can secretly seize and search emails stored by email service providers. Closely tracking arguments made by EFF in its amicus brief, the court found that email users have the same reasonable expectation of privacy in their stored email as they do in their phone calls and postal mail.

The court held,

Given the fundamental similarities between email and traditional forms of communication [like postal mail and telephone calls], it would defy common sense to afford emails lesser Fourth Amendment protection…. It follows that email requires strong protection under the Fourth Amendment; otherwise the Fourth Amendment would prove an ineffective guardian of private communication, an essential purpose it has long been recognized to serve…. [T]he police may not storm the post office and intercept a letter, and they are likewise forbidden from using the phone system to make a clandestine recording of a telephone call–unless they get a warrant, that is. It only stands to reason that, if government agents compel an ISP to surrender the contents of a subscriber’s emails, those agents have thereby conducted a Fourth Amendment search, which necessitates compliance with the warrant requirement..

The decision essentially invalidates the Stored Communications Act, so it will either be appealed up to the Supreme Court, or Congress shall have to do some fixing.

•  Decision pdf

#eff, #law, #privacy

One of the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s founding principles was Mitch Kapor’s aphorism, “Architecture is politics.” The design of systems determines the kinds of politics that can take place in them, and designing a system is itself a political act. As part of EFF’s ongoing 20th anniversary celebrations, it held a panel called “Architecture is policy” at Carnegie-Mellon, featuring Ed Felten, Dave Farber, Lorrie Cranor, John Buckman, and Cindy Cohn

via Boing Boing

#eff, #farber, #privacy, #security, #trust