Presented at
The Eleventh HOPE (2016),
July 23, 2016, 5 p.m.
(180 minutes)
First came the assault on privacy. Name, address, telephone, DOB, SSN, physical description, friends, family, likes, dislikes, habits, hobbies, beliefs, religion, sexual orientation, finances, every granular detail of a person's life, all logged, indexed, analyzed and cross-referenced. Then came the gathering of location and communication data. Cell phones, apps, metro cards, license plate readers and toll tags, credit card use, IP addresses and authenticated logins, tower info, router proximity, networked "things" everywhere reporting on activity and location, astoundingly accurate facial recognition mated with analytics and "gigapixel" cameras and, worst of all, mindlessly self-contributed posts, tweets, and "check-ins," all constantly reporting a subject's location 24-7-365, to such a degree of accuracy that "predictive profiling" knows where you will likely be next Thursday afternoon. Today we are experiencing constant efforts to shred anonymity. Forensic linguistics, browser fingerprinting, lifestyle and behavior analysis, metadata of all types, HTML5, IPv6, and daily emerging "advances" in surveillance technologies - some seemingly science fiction but real - are combining to make constant, mobile identification and absolute loss of anonymity inevitable. And, now, predictably, the final efforts to homogenize: the "siloing" and Balkanization of the Internet. As Internet use becomes more and more self-restricted to a few large providers, as users increasingly never leave the single ecosystem of a Facebook or a Google, as the massive firehose of information on the Internet is "curated" and "managed" by persons who believe that they know best what news and opinions you should have available to read, see, and believe, the bias of a few will eventually determine what you believe. What is propaganda? What is truth? You simply won't know. In a tradition dating back to the first HOPE conference, for three full hours <a href="https://xi.hope.net/speakers.html#Steven Rambam">Steven Rambam</a> will detail the latest trends in privacy invasion and will demonstrate cutting-edge anonymity-shredding surveillance technologies. Drones will fly, a "privacy victim" will undergo digital proctology, a Q&A period will be provided, and fun will be had by all.
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Steven Rambam
Steven Rambam is the founder and CEO of Pallorium, Inc., a licensed investigative agency with offices and affiliates worldwide. Steven has coordinated investigations in more than 60 countries, and he specializes in international and multi-jurisdictional investigations, investigations of sophisticated frauds, and missing person investigations. Many of Steven's activities involve coordination with national authorities, and Steven has received commendations and awards in a number of foreign locations. He has also received a number of foreign military decorations, and his activities have been mentioned in sessions of the Canadian and Israeli Parliaments. Steven is perhaps best publicly known for his pro bono activities, which have included the location and investigation of nearly 200 Nazi collaborators and war criminals in the USA, Canada, Europe, and Australia. He has also coordinated efforts to expose terrorist groups' fundraising activities in the United States and has conducted investigations which resulted in the tightening of airport security in eight U.S. cities. He has been the host of Discovery ID's Nowhere To Hide and History Channel's Hunting reality television shows, and is scheduled to host "Private Justice" TV. (Nowhere To Hide premiered at HOPE X and past episodes are available via iTunes, Amazon, and, undoubtedly, Kickass Torrents.) Steven has presented at every HOPE since Number One.
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