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NSA
Overseas Surveillance in an Interconnected World: Understanding Executive Order 12333 and Its Reach (Past Event)
Presented by: Just Security & The Brennan Center for Justice
Speakers: Neema Singh Guliani, Legislative Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union; Deborah Pearlstein, Associate Professor, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law;Rebecca Richards, Director, Office of Civil Liberties and Privacy, National Security Agency; Amos Toh, Legal Advisor to the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and former Counsel, Brennan Center for Justice; and Harlan Yu, Principal, Upturn. Read more about Overseas Surveillance in an Interconnected World: Understanding Executive Order 12333 and Its Reach
Modern Surveillance (Past Event)
Speaker: Jennifer Granick, Stanford University NSA stands for National Security Agency, but the agency is at odds with itself in its security mission. Undermining global encryption standards, intercepting Internet companies' data center transmissions, using auto-update to spread malware, and demanding law enforcement back doors in products and services are all business as usual. What legal basis does NSA and FBI have for these demands, and do they make the country more or less safe? Read more about Modern Surveillance
The National Security Agency at the Crossroads (Past Event)
Jennifer Granick, CIS Director of Civil Liberties, will be a panelist in a session titled "The Content Collection Controversy". Read more about The National Security Agency at the Crossroads
CIS Tech Workshop with Tom Lowenthal - Browsing with Tor: Online Anonymity to Outsmart the NSA (Past Event)
In the NSA's "Tor Stinks" presentation, they call Tor "the king of high-secure [sic] low-latency Internet anonymity" with "no contenders for the throne in waiting", and admit that even with their vast resources and massive data-centers, even the NSA can only effectively attack a tiny fraction of Tor users at once. In this workshop, Tom Lowenthal --- formerly of the Tor Project -- will teach us how to use Tor to browse the web safely. We'll learn a little about how Tor works, and what Tor can and can't protect against. Audience members are encouraged to bring their laptops: this is a hands-on session. You should walk away with Tor installed, and confident you can use it safely. This session is open to folks of all experience levels. Read more about CIS Tech Workshop with Tom Lowenthal - Browsing with Tor: Online Anonymity to Outsmart the NSA
NSA Surveillance and What To Do About It - An Evening Talk with Bruce Schneier (Past Event)
Edward Snowden has given us an unprecedented window into the NSA's surveillance activities. Drawing from both the Snowden documents and revelations from previous whistleblowers, this talk describes the sorts of surveillance the NSA conducts and how it conducts it. The emphasis will be on the technical capabilities of the NSA, and not the politics or legality of their actions. I will then discuss what sorts of countermeasures are likely to frustrate any nation-state adversary with these sorts of capabilities. These will be techniques to raise the cost of wholesale surveillance in favor of targeted surveillance: ubiquitous encryption, target dispersal, anonymity tools, and so on. Read more about NSA Surveillance and What To Do About It - An Evening Talk with Bruce Schneier
Privacy and Civil Liberties in the Post-Snowden Era (Past Event)
Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board Chairman, David Medine, will address how to strike the right balance between national security and privacy and civil liberties in federal counterterrorism programs. Read more about Privacy and Civil Liberties in the Post-Snowden Era
In re EPIC: The Challenge to the NSA Telephone Record Collection Program (Past Event)
Marc Rotenberg is President and Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington, DC, and a former counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee. EPIC focuses public attention on emerging privacy and civil liberties issues. EPIC routinely files amicus briefs in federal and state courts, testifies before Congress, participates in agency rule makings, and conducts extensive Freedom of Information Act litigation. In the last several months, EPIC settled FOIA cases favorably in EPIC v. CIA (surveillance of mosques), EPIC v. DHS and EPIC v. TSA (airport body scanners), EPIC v. Dept. of Ed (student privacy), and EPIC v. ODNI (Privacy Act compliance Read more about In re EPIC: The Challenge to the NSA Telephone Record Collection Program
Rally for Privacy Awareness - "1984" on 8/4 - Restore the Fourth SF (Past Event)
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Come out to rally for your privacy and learn about surveillance from a distinguished group of speakers this Sunday afternoon at Embarcadero Plaza! Read more about Rally for Privacy Awareness - "1984" on 8/4 - Restore the Fourth SF