Presented at
DEF CON 31 (2023),
Aug. 12, 2023, 4:30 p.m.
(45 minutes).
In the year since the Supreme Court overturned federal legal protections for reproductive rights, people seeking, providing, and supporting reproductive healthcare are grappling with the challenges of digital surveillance. Multiple services and apps track our movements and communications, and that data can be used by law enforcement and private parties to police and punish abortion access. Lawsuits and prosecutions are already underway and are likely to increase as states continue to pass or expand anti-abortion laws and undermine legal protections for online expression and privacy.
But the fight is far from over. At the state and federal level, lawmakers, activists, and technologists are taking steps to establish and shore up legal and practical protections for secure and private healthcare access.
This panel brings together legal and security experts to lead a discussion about defending reproductive justice in the digital age Ð what has already been accomplished, whatÕs coming, and how hackers can help. It will build on and update a discussion held last year, also led by EFF and DDF.
REFERENCES:
https://www.eff.org/issues/reproductive-rights
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/03/texas-bill-would-systematically-silence-anyone-who-dares-talk-about-abortion-pills
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/eff-backs-california-bill-protect-people-seeking-abortion-and-gender-affirming
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/09/automated-license-plate-readers-threaten-abortion-access-heres-how-policymakers
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/nonprofit-websites-are-full-of-trackers-that-should-change
https://www.ifwhenhow.org/resources/self-care-criminalized-preliminary-findings/
Presenters:
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Corynne McSherry
- Legal Director at Electronic Frontier Foundation
As EFF's Legal Director, McSherry has extensive experience in advocating for digital civil liberties and promoting net neutrality. Her perspective on the legal frameworks shaping the digital landscape will provide DEF CON attendees with insights on regulatory issues affecting technology users.
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Kate Bertash
- Founder at Digital Defense Fund
Kate Bertash is the founder of the Digital Defense Fund, a digital security organization for the abortion access movement. She is a hacker and designer of the ALPR-jamming clothing line, Adversarial Wear.
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India McKinney
- Director of Federal Affairs at Electronic Frontier Foundation
As a former Capitol Hill staffer and a current EFF lobbyist, India\u2019s main job is to make sure that the laws of the land don't suck the life out of the internet. India\u2019s passion has always been for good public policy, and she’s excited to be using skills developed during past legislative battles to fight for encryption, for consumer privacy, and civil liberties in the digital realm.
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Daly Barnett
- Staff Technologist at Electronic Frontier Foundation
Daly Barnett is a staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a digital privacy consultant with Hacking//Hustling. She utilizes her skills as a techie and experience as an activist and educator to undermine the harms that surveillance causes movement-oriented work. Where most information security resources seek to protect capital, her goal is to re-tool those concepts to protect people and liberatory movements.
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