A New HOPE Keynote and Q&A with Sophie Zhang

Presented at A New HOPE (2022), July 23, 2022, 2 p.m. (50 minutes).

Facebook whistleblower Sophie Zhang will share insights, in discussion with Yan Zhu. Sophie became a whistleblower after spending two years and eight months at Facebook, personally catching two national governments using the service to manipulate their citizens, and also revealing some troubling decisions made by Facebook. In addition to this discussion with Sophie, Yan also ran the Q&A with Chelsea Manning at The Circle of HOPE in 2018.

Presenters:

• Yan Zhu
  **Yan Zhu** has been the chief information security officer at Brave Software, creators of Brave Browser, since 2015. Prior to Brave, Yan was a senior security engineer at Yahoo, working on end-to-end email encryption, and a staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where she worked on open source projects such as HTTPS Everywhere and Let's Encrypt. She has also served on the W3C Technical Architecture Group and DEF CON talks review board.
• Sophie Zhang
  **Sophie Zhang** became a whistleblower after spending two years and eight months at Facebook failing to fix the company from within. She personally caught two national governments using Facebook to manipulate their own citizenry, while also revealing concerning decisions made by Facebook regarding inauthenticity in Indian and U.S. politics. Formerly a data scientist, she currently stays home to pet her cats.

Links:

• https://scheduler.hope.net/new-hope/talk/Y79TSH/
• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/A New HOPE (2022)/A New HOPE (2022) A New HOPE Keynote and Q&A with Sophie Zhang.mp4
• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/A New HOPE (2022)/A New HOPE (2022) A New HOPE Keynote and Q&A with Sophie Zhang.srt (subtitles)

Similar Presentations:

• DEF CON 18 (2010) / Hacking Facebook Privacy
• 31C3 (2014) / The case of Chelsea Manning