Presented at
The Eleventh HOPE (2016),
July 22, 2016, 3 p.m.
(60 minutes)
Get the latest information about how the law is racing to catch up with technological change from staffers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the nation's premiere digital civil liberties group fighting for freedom and privacy in the computer age. This session will include updates on current EFF issues such as surveillance online, encryption (and backdoors), and fighting efforts to use intellectual property claims to shut down free speech and halt innovation. The panel will also include a discussion on their technology project to protect privacy and speech online, updates on cases and legislation affecting security research, and much more. Half the session will be given over to question-and-answer, so it's your chance to ask EFF questions about the law and technology issues that are important to you.
Presenters:
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Kurt Opsahl
Kurt Opsahl is the deputy executive director and general counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In addition to representing clients on civil liberties, free speech, and privacy law, Kurt counsels on EFF projects and initiatives. He is the lead attorney on the Coders' Rights Project. Before joining EFF, Kurt worked at Perkins Coie, where he represented technology clients with respect to intellectual property, privacy, defamation, and other online liability matters, including working on Kelly v. Arribasoft, MGM v. Grokster and CoStar v. LoopNet. For his work responding to government subpoenas, he is proud to have been called a "rabid dog" by the Department of Justice. Kurt received his law degree from Boalt Hall and undergraduate degree from U.C. Santa Cruz. He co-authored Electronic Media and Privacy Law Handbook. In 2007, Kurt was named as one of the "Attorneys of the Year" by California Lawyer magazine for his work on the O'Grady v. Superior Court appeal. In 2014, he was elected to the USENIX Board of Directors.
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Jacob Hoffman-Andrews
Jacob Hoffman-Andrews is a lead developer on Let's Encrypt, the free and automated certificate authority. He also works on EFF's Encrypt the Web initiative and is a maintainer on the HTTPS Everywhere browser extension. Prior to working at EFF, Jacob was on Twitter's anti-spam and security teams. On the security team, he implemented HTTPS-by-default with forward secrecy, key pinning, HSTS, and CSP. On anti-spam, he deployed new machine-learned models to detect and block spam in real time. Before Twitter, he worked at Google, variously on the maps, transit, and shopping teams.
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Parker Higgins
Parker Higgins is an activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in issues at the intersection of freedom of speech and copyright, trademark, and patent law. As a participant in EFF's Apollo 1201 project, he is helping Cory Doctorow to eliminate DRM in our lifetime. He previously lived and worked in Berlin, Germany.
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Vivian Brown
Vivian Brown is a software engineer on EFF's web development team. She maintains eff.org and builds campaign sites and internal tools for EFF. Before joining EFF, Vivian was part of a worker co-op that provided web development and design services to social change organizations. Some of her other past projects include applying machine learning to birdsong and mapping Oakland campaign finance data.
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