BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//OpenACalendar//NONSGML OpenACalendar//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Open Rights Group London: Election week special: Dangers of po litical advertising and electronic voting - Open Tech Calendar BEGIN:VEVENT UID:8570@otc.opentechcalendar.co.uk URL:https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/event/8570-election-week-special-dangers -of-political-adverti SUMMARY:Open Rights Group London: Election week special: Dangers of politic al advertising and electronic voting DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special EU Election week event focused on technol ogy's worrying impacts on UK democracy.\n\nNearly a year after the General Data Protection Regulation was implemented\, questionable data practices on social media advertising are threatening UK elections. We'll hear from Who Targets Me about their innovative browser extension that improves tran sparency in online advertising by showing users who is targeting political ads at them and why.\n\nWe'll also hear from our new Data &\; Democrac y Project Officer Pascal Crowe about why we should be concerned about elec tronic voting trials in the UK. We'll also hear about ORG's upcoming event ORGCon.\n\nNo technical expertise are necessary\, all are welcome to this free event.\nhttps://opentechcalendar.co.uk/event/8570-election-week-spec ial-dangers-of-political-adverti\nPowered by Open Tech Calendar X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Join us for a special EU Electi
on week event focused on technology&rsquo\;s worrying impacts on UK democr
acy.
Nearly a year after the General Data Protection Regulation was
implemented\, questionable data practices on social media advertising are
threatening UK elections. We&rsquo\;ll hear from Who Targets Me about the
ir innovative browser extension that improves transparency in online adver
tising by showing users who is targeting political ads at them and why.
We&rsquo\;ll also hear from our new Data &\;amp\; Democracy Projec
t Officer Pascal Crowe about why we should be concerned about electronic v
oting trials in the UK. We&rsquo\;ll also hear about ORG&rsquo\;s upcoming
event ORGCon.
No technical expertise are necessary\, all are welco
me to this free event.
More info: https ://opentechcalendar.co.uk/event/8570-election-week-special-dangers-of-poli tical-adverti
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