Open Tech Calendar

Put digital rights and human rights on the agenda on June 8th. Quiz your candidates on what they will do to protect rights online. Find candidates that will ensure Brexit does not mean losing your civil liberties.

Don't go into the polling booth without knowing which candidates are going to protect your rights!

The event is free and open to all. All views and questions will receive a fair hearing - we only ask that everyone respects one another.

The venue is accessible in terms of physical access and we are committed to making our events open to all regardless of any support need so please contact us directly to let us know how we can help: brighton AT openrightsgroup.org

Impartial Chair

We are delighted to announce our Chair for the evening will be Wendy M Grossman.

A member of our Advisory Council, Wendy is a freelance writer and former full-time musician who writes for the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, ZDNet UK, and Scientific American (she has also written for New Scientist, Wired, and many other publications as well as policy reports and research). She is author of six books including net.wars (1998, NYU Press) and From Anarchy to Power: the Net Comes of Age (2001, NUYU Press), Why Statues Weep: The Best of The Skeptic (2012, Philosophy Press), and writes a weekly column, net.wars, that appears on Friday's at www.pelicancrossing.net. She is founder and former editor of The Skeptic magazine. Her Web site pelicancrossing.net includes an extensive archive of her articles and MP3s.

Candidates

We invited a candidate from all parties from the constituencies of Brighton Pavilion, Brighton Kemptown and Hove and an independent candidate.

Confirmed so far are:

• Green: Phélim Mac Cafferty (Hove)

• Independent: Nicholas Yeomans (Pavilion)

• Labour: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Kemptown)

• Liberal Democrats: Paul Chandler (Former candidate for Pavilion)

• UKIP - Nigel Furness (Press/Political Officer for UKIP Brighton & Hove)

The Conservatives were invited (repeatedly) but have not put forward a representative.

About Open Rights Group

Open Rights Group is the UK's only digital campaigning organisation working to protect the rights to privacy and free speech online. With almost 3,000 active supporters, we are a grassroots organisation with local groups across the UK.

We work across all political parties to ensure the digital rights of people in the UK are protected.