Siri. Find My Ex

Presented at Objective by the Sea version 4.0 (2021), Sept. 30, 2021, 10:10 a.m. (25 minutes)

Cybersecurity often focuses on the threats posed by malicious criminals or government surveillance, but for survivors of intimate partner abuse, surveillance begins at home. This talk will cover the frequently-overlooked threat posed by abusive partners, attackers who often have physical access to and considerable intimate knowledge of their victims.

Galperin will focus on the latest developments in intimate partner surveillance using Apple products, including stalkerware, abuse of location-sharing and other data-sharing settings, and Apple's recently-debuted physical tracker, the AirTag.


Presenters:

  • Eva Galperin - Director of Cybersecurity EFF
    Eva Galperin is EFF's Director of Cybersecurity. Prior to 2007, when she came to work for EFF, Eva worked in security and IT in Silicon Valley and earned degrees in Political Science and International Relations from SFSU. Her work is primarily focused on providing privacy and security for vulnerable populations around the world. To that end, she has applied the combination of her political science and technical background to everything from organizing EFF's Tor Relay Challenge, to writing privacy and security training materials (including Surveillance Self Defense and the Digital First Aid Kit), and publishing research on malware in Syria, Vietnam, Kazakhstan. When she is not collecting new and exotic malware, she practices aerial circus arts and learning new languages.

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