Neighbourhood Watched: How Police surveillance undermines digital privacy
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From facial recognition to social media monitoring, from remote hacking to the use of mobile surveillance equipment called 'IMSI catchers', UK police forces are using an ever-expanding array of surveillance tools to spy on us as we go about our everyday lives. Too often, these new and intrusive spying technologies are rolled out without the say, or even the knowledge, of the public or their locally elected representatives.
The use of police surveillance technologies can threaten our privacy and may cause us to change who we associate with and what we feel we can do and say. These technologies can also be used to target, profile and discriminate against certain communities - including minority, low-income and politically active communities.
Join us in London to hear about Privacy International & Liberty's campaign for the public to have a greater say as to whether their local police force should be allowed to use such highly intrusive technologies.
Speaker:
Camilla Graham Wood - Privacy International Legal Officer
It may not make the headlines, but Brexit’s impact on UK life online will be a gamechanger. Join us for a night with Open Rights Group to discuss how leaving the European Union will affect how UK residents experience the Internet.
Speakers
Javier Ruiz, Policy Director at Open Rights Group
Javier will explain how post-Brexit international trade deals with the United States and other countries could impact UK rights online. Trade agreements increasingly include clauses to promote digital trade, which unfortunately tend to translate into weakening the protection of the personal data of ordinary people and increasing the protections on the algorithms and trade secrets of businesses. Entering these agreements will put the UK in a difficult position as it strives to maintain the current arrangements for data flows with the EU.
Duncan McCann, Senior Researcher at New Economics Foundation
Duncan will speak on the potential impacts to the digital economy as well as potential trade offs of the UK needing to urgently sign trade agreements with the US and the EU. The UK needs to sign deals fast to demonstrate that the UK is open for business in a post Brexit environment. However this will only be achievable if some or all of the US and EU demands are conceded on, in areas such as food security, access to the NHS or data protection. We will explore some of the ways forward. Duncan will also highlight briefly some of the wider impacts of the digital trade chapters beyond digital privacy.
Mike Morel, Campaigns Manager at Open Rights Group
Mike will provide an overview of EU laws and institutions that currently influence UK rights to free speech online and digital privacy. Find out which protections will disappear, which will remain, and what could happen in a no-deal scenario.
It may not make the headlines, but Brexit’s impact on UK life online will be a gamechanger. Join us for a night with Open Rights Group to discuss how leaving the European Union will affect how UK residents experience the Internet.
Speakers
Open Rights Group Policy Director Javier Ruiz
Javier will explain how post-Brexit international trade deals with the United States and other countries could impact UK rights online. Trade agreements increasingly include clauses to promote digital trade, which unfortunately tend to translate into weakening the protection of the personal data of ordinary people and increasing the protections on the algorithms and trade secrets of businesses. Entering these agreements will put the UK in a difficult position as it strives to maintain the current arrangements for data flows with the EU.
Open Rights Group Campaigns Manager Mike Morel
Mike will provide an overview of EU laws and institutions that currently influence UK rights to free speech online and digital privacy. Find out which protections will disappear, which will remain, and what could happen in a no-deal scenario.
Join us in London for a special election season event about disinformation and manipulation in political campaigning.
First up, we’re got a FREE screening of the Netflix documentary The Great Hack, which uncovers the dark world of data exploitation through the journeys of players from the explosive Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data scandal.
After the film, we’ll show you how to submit a subject access request (SAR) to UK political parties so you can find out exactly what personal data they are holding on you.
To complete a (SAR), you’ll need to bring a laptop or phone and a photo ID that proves your identity and lists your current voting address. A driving licence will suffice if the address is your current voting address. If the address is outdated, you'll need to add a second document with your current voting address. This could be a utility bill, council tax bill or a bank statement from the last 3 months.
We’ll supply refreshments!
Register your free ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/org-london-the-great-hack-free-screening-tickets-82223018261
Hosted by Open Rights Group and the New Economics Foundation
Election Special: FREE screening of the Great Hack & SARs workshop
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Join us in London for a special election season event about disinformation and manipulation in political campaigning.
First up, we’re got a FREE screening of the Netflix documentary The Great Hack, which uncovers the dark world of data exploitation through the journeys of players from the explosive Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data scandal.
After the film, we’ll show you how to submit a subject access request (SAR) to UK political parties so you can find out exactly what personal data they are holding on you.
We’ll supply refreshments. Be sure to bring your laptop or phone and two forms of ID (including one with a photo) so you can properly submit your subject access request.
Register your free ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/org-london-the-great-hack-free-screening-tickets-82223018261
Hosted by Open Rights Group and the New Economics Foundation
Hear a digital marketing expert blow the whistle on deceitful tactics used by digital advertisers and show us how we can "opt out" of the corporate surveillance economy.
We'll also receive an update about Open Rights Group's AdTech complaint against Google and the Interactive Advertising Bureau.
This event is a great way to learn easy and practical ways to protect yourself online from companies that aggressively target and track you across the Internet.
Bring your laptops and mobile phones so you can use what you learn immediately.
Gain insider knowledge from a digital marketing expert versed in the dark arts of media manipulation, a relatively unknown but highly influential set of trade secrets used in the private sector to engineer fake news and influence the media.
This former media strategist will also blow the whistle on deceitful tactics used by digital advertisers and show us how we can "opt out" of the corporate surveillance economy.
This event is a great way to learn easy and practical ways to protect yourself online from companies that aggressively target and track you across the Internet.
Bring your laptops and mobile phones so you can use what you learn immediately.
Will new social media regulation damage free expression online?
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The UK Government recently published proposals to address “online harms” ranging from terrorist content to cyber bullying. The new rules promise to dramatically impact social media companies (and social media users).
At a time of creeping Government control of the Internet it's time to question whether plans to make the Internet safer will come at a cost to free expression online.
The Centre for Investigative Journalism and the Internet Futures and Human Rights Research Stream at Goldsmith’s University of London present a talk by Open Rights Group’s Executive Director Jim Killock about an alternative rights-based approach to address online harms that will also protect the free and open Internet.
Mr. Killock will also tell you how to make your voice heard by responding to the Government’s public consultation on their Online Harm White Paper.
All are welcome to this free event. All you need is a concern about protecting the free and open Internet.
Election week special: Dangers of political advertising and electronic voting
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Join us for a special EU Election week event focused on technology’s worrying impacts on UK democracy.
Nearly 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 transparency in online advertising by showing users who is targeting political ads at them and why.
We’ll also hear from our new Data & Democracy Project Officer Pascal Crowe about why we should be concerned about electronic voting trials in the UK. We’ll also hear about ORG’s upcoming event ORGCon.
No technical expertise are necessary, all are welcome to this free event.
The UK is already leading the democratic world in mass surveillance. Now the Government’s new digital safety strategy suggests they want to lead in censorship as well.
The Centre for Investigative Journalism and the Internet Futures and Human Rights Research Stream at Goldsmith’s University of London present a talk by Open Rights Group’s Executive Director Jim Killock about Internet censorship in the UK today. From the use of web blocking to combat terrorism and copyright infringement to age verification technology meant to shield children from pornography, we’ll consider the dangers these methods pose to free expression online. These authorities, while often engaging in important work, can be prone to mistakes, operate takedown opaque policies, and often do not offer any independent means of redress.
The event will commemorate the release of a new Open Rights Group report series on UK Internet regulation. Whether you’re a student, campaigner, concerned citizen or activist, you’ll have a chance to discuss important digital rights issues and learn how to get involved.
Internet Futures and Human Rights at Goldsmiths University
https://sites.gold.ac.uk/technologies-worlds-politics/welcome-to-the-technologies-worlds-politics-research-theme/internet-futures-and-human-rights/
Centre for Investigative Journalism
https://tcij.org
The UK is already leading the democratic world in mass surveillance. Now the Government’s new digital safety strategy suggests they want to lead in censorship as well.
The Centre for Investigative Journalism and Goldsmiths University of London present a talk by Open Rights Group’s Executive Director Jim Killock about Internet censorship in the UK today. From the use of web blocking to combat terrorism and copyright infringement to age verification technology meant to shield children from pornography, we’ll consider the dangers these methods pose to free expression online. These authorities, while often engaging in important work, can be prone to mistakes, operate takedown opaque policies, and often do not offer any independent means of redress.
The event will commemorate the release of a new Open Rights Group report series on UK Internet regulation. Whether you’re a student, campaigner, concerned citizen or activist, you’ll have a chance to discuss important digital rights issues and learn how to get involved.
The UK is already leading the democratic world in mass surveillance. Now the Government’s new digital safety strategy suggests they want to lead in censorship as well.
The Centre for Investigative Journalism and Goldsmiths University of London present a talk by Open Rights Group’s Executive Director Jim Killock about Internet censorship in the UK today. From the use of web blocking to combat terrorism and copyright infringement to age verification technology meant to shield children from pornography, we’ll consider the dangers these methods pose to free expression online. We show that these authorities, while often engaging in important work, can be prone to mistakes, operate takedown opaque policies, and often do not offer any independent means of redress.
The event will commemorate the release of a new Open Rights Group report series on UK Internet regulation. Whether you’re a student, campaigner, concerned citizen or activist, you’ll have a chance to discuss important digital rights issues and learn how to get involved.
Some of our most important laws--public safety codes such as building, fire, or electrical codes--are considered the private property of standards development organizations and may only be read at great cost and under conditions set by them. In this talk, Carl Malamud will discuss his 10-year fight to change that situation in the U.S., Europe, and India, including court fights that are ongoing on all 3 continents.
Carl will then discuss the efforts Public Resource, the nongovernmental organization he heads, has undertaken to make other forms of knowledge more broadly available, including works of government and the ongoing fight to free up scientific knowledge for use by students.
Carl Malamud has spent 30 years making government information more broadly available on the Internet. He helped put U.S. court cases, the patent database, non-profit tax returns filed with the Internal Revenue Service, and the Securities and Exchange Commission on the net. In 1993, Carl created the first radio station on the Internet. He has been a visiting professor at the MIT Media Lab and is the recipient of the Pioneer Award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Carl's current work is focused for the most part on India, where he is leading efforts to make several important repositories available. He is the author of 9 books, most recently (co-authored with Sam Pitroda), Code Swaraj: Field Notes from the Standards Satyagraha.
The controversial EU Copyright Directive is facing yet another major vote on 12 September. The debate around Article 13, which could introduce widespread "upload filters" on major Internet platforms, has seen dramatically conflicting narratives coming from rights-holders, industry bodies, artists, musicians, and free speech organisations.
Is Article 13 good for musicians or just music labels? Will it usher in a new era of automated Internet censorship or instead help direct royalties to underappreciated artists? Where do UK political parties stand and why aren’t MEPs voting on strict partisan lines?
Join us for a lively night as we review the current status of the Directive and consider all sides of this important debate.
Speakers include:
Jake Beaumont-Nesbitt
Copyright Committee
International Music Managers Forum
Anna Mazgal
EU Policy Advisor
Wikimedia Deutschland
Stuart Prior
Project Coordinator
Wikimedia UK
Mike Morel
Campaigns Manager (& musician)
Open Rights Group
The controversial EU Copyright Directive is facing yet another major vote on 12 September. The debate around Article 13, which could introduce widespread "upload filters" on major Internet platforms, has seen dramatically conflicting narratives coming from rights-holders, industry bodies, artists, musicians, and free speech organisations.
Is Article 13 good for musicians or just music labels? Will it usher in a new era of automated Internet censorship or instead help direct royalties to underappreciated artists? Where do UK political parties stand and why aren’t MEPs voting on strict partisan lines?
Join us for a lively night as we review the current status of the Directive and consider all sides of this important debate.
Speakers include:
Jake Beaumont-Nesbitt
Copyright Committee
International Music Managers Forum
Anna Mazgal
EU Policy Advisor
Wikimedia Foundation
Stuart Prior
Project Coordinator
Wikimedia UK
Mike Morel
Campaigns Manager (& musician)
Open Rights Group
What does Article 13 mean for musicians and free speech?
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The controversial EU Copyright Directive is facing yet another major vote on 12 September. The debate around Article 13 has seen dramatically conflicting narratives coming from rights-holders, industry bodies, artists, musicians, and free speech organisations.
Is Article 13 good for musicians or just music labels? Will it usher in a new era of automated Internet censorship or instead help direct royalties to underappreciated artists? Where do UK political parties stand and why aren’t MEPs voting on strict partisan lines?
Join us for a lively night as we review the current status of the Directive and consider all sides of this important debate.
Speakers include:
Jake Beaumont-Nesbitt
Copyright Committee
International Music Managers Forum
Anna Mazgal
EU Policy Advisor
Wikimedia Foundation
Mike Morel
Campaigns Manager (& musician)
Open Rights Group
Ben Falk will be leading a session getting volunteers to log as many subject access requests as possible, from as many organisations as possible, as a first step towards building a ‘data democracy.’
You will be given instructions on how to request your data from organisations that include the Home Office, the NHS and Facebook, hopefully highlighting how much of your data is available to you, and prompting you to ask the question ‘what do I do with all this?’
Please bring a laptop or tablet if you wish to take part.
Could new plans to make Britain "the safest place in the world to be online" have unintended consequences? Hear from ORG campaigns manager Mike Morel and ORG legal intern Alex Haydock about how the Government is working with social media companies to decide acceptable standards for online content. Learn how heavy fines could encourage the use of automated censors that can hurt free speech, and how murky definitions of 'harmful content' give social media companies unprecedented control over free speech online.
Could new plans to make Britain "the safest place in the world to be online" have unintended consequences? Hear from ORG campaigns manager Mike Morel about how the Government is working with social media companies to decide acceptable standards for online content. Learn how heavy fines could encourage the use of automated censors that can hurt free speech, and how murky definitions of 'harmful content' give social media companies unprecedented control over free speech online.
ORG Executive Director Jim Killock & Legal Officer Alex Haydock join us at Newspeak House to illustrate the critical importance of legal action in the fight to defend our digital rights. Learn about ORG’s record of achievements at the European Court of Human Rights, the Court of Justice of the European Union, and the Royal Court of Justice in London. They’ll also survey fast approaching legal challenges in 2018 involving age-verification technology, protecting free speech online, and fighting the Government’s mass surveillance programme. No experience or knowledge is necessary for this FREE event! All you need is an interest in protecting our human rights in the digital era. We want to hear from you, so there will be plenty of time for questions and group discussion. Join us!
ORG Legal Director Myles Jackman joins us at Newspeak House to illustrate the critical importance of legal action in the fight to defend our digital rights. Learn about ORG’s record of achievements at the European Court of Human Rights, the Court of Justice of the European Union, and the Royal Court of Justice in London. We’ll also survey fast approaching legal challenges in 2018 involving age-verification technology, protecting free speech online, and fighting the Government’s mass surveillance programme. No experience or knowledge is necessary for this FREE event! All you need is an interest in protecting our human rights in the digital era. We want to hear from you, so there will be plenty of time for questions and group discussion. Join us!
Fabio Natali will be giving a presentation on the Cryptobar installation, a project aimed at spreading the word about privacy (and privacy-enhancing technologies) in an artistic and accessible way.
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