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Talk: Grassroots Surveillance Resistance at your Local Library
Start Date: 2/6/2017Start Time: 12:00 PM
End Date: 2/6/2017End Time: 1:45 PM
Event Description
In an age of broad government surveillance, Big Data, high profile data hacks, and new digital threats that come from a dangerous and uncertain political climate, how can ordinary people learn to protect their digital lives? The Library Freedom Project (LFP) attempts to solve this problem by bringing together the expertise of librarians, hackers, attorneys and activists to create practical privacy trainings for people at any level of technical ability. Come learn about how LFP is fighting surveillance and making digital privacy tools mainstream and ubiquitous through the trusted space of the local library. 

Speakers:
Roger Dingledine, original Developer and President of Tor, will give a brief introduction. Then, Alison Macrina, MS library and information science '09 – a librarian, internet activist, the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project, and a core contributor to The Tor Project – will give a talk. A Q&A session will follow. 

This event is being co-sponsored by the CCI Department of Computer Science, Drexel University Library & Archives Student Association (DULASA), CCI Doctoral Student Association (CCIDSA), Drexel CyberDragons and Drexel Women in Computing Society (WiCS). 

Free food and refreshments will be provided (courtesy of the co-sponsors).

RSVP online at: bit.ly/drexelLFP 
 
 
Contact Information:
Name: Rachel Greenstadt
Email: greenstadt@drexel.edu
Location:
326 Randell Hall
3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Audience:
  • Everyone
  • Special Features:
  • Free Food

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