<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Greetings! TA3M Seattle is meeting this month, on 2/15. We have a fantastic lineup this month!<br></div></div><div><div><b><br>Speakers</b>:<br>Tony Collette: “A Telegraph-Era Technology Re-Imagined To Restore Privacy Today.”<br>Jared Friend: "ACLU Technology and Liberty Program Director" <br><b><br></b>
<b>When</b>: Monday, February 15, 2016, 6:30PM<br>
<b>Where</b>: UW Computer Science & Engineering room 403 <br></div><div>The building is locked that day, but we will have someone by the SE entrance to let you in. Email <a href="mailto:megyoung@uw.edu">megyoung@uw.edu</a> if you arrive more than 10 minutes late and are locked out.<br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<b><br>Tony Collette: “A Telegraph-Era Technology Re-Imagined To Restore Privacy Today.”</b><br><br>Modern consumers are frequently confronted with news of data leaks, corporate hacks and personal e-mail breaches. E-mail is incredibly popular, but completely unsecure. Are Americans concerned about e-mail privacy? Do they accept standalone digital privacy solutions? What might be standing in the way of more robust acceptance of privacy products like Signal and TOR? <br><br>When it comes to privacy, some believe the ordinary consumer has thrown their hands up and surrendered. If the consumer has been conditioned to believe privacy is impossible to achieve, can anything re-condition the consumer to believe that privacy is possible? How can we create a mass-market, consumer privacy product which is accepted in sufficient numbers to make a real difference in the fight for privacy? Has anything like this existed before?<br><br>In this fast-paced exploration, we'll look at the modern perils of e-mail insecurity and three major threats to e-mail privacy. Then we’ll dive deeply into a thriving, booming world-wide privacy industry that flourished during the telegraph era. What can we learn from their successes and failures? What dynamics might still apply? Is it possible that some antique technology — re-imagined for our modern era — might be useful today?<br><br>Bio: Tony Collette is a quality analyst for a medical ethics review board, which serves to protect the privacy and well-being of participants in medical research. He has a passion for consumer products, and a life partner who’s a consumer product developer. When two consumer-focused, non-technical minds look at the privacy problem from a completely different perspective, they don’t see a technical problem to overcome, but a product development puzzle waiting for a solution.<br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><b>Jared Friend: ACLU Technology and Liberty Program Director <br></b><br>Bio: Jared is responsible for driving policy work at the intersection of free speech, privacy, and developing technology and for collaborating with the policy and litigation teams at the ACLU of Washington. Prior to joining the ACLU, Jared was an associate in the Technology Transactions Group at Cooley LLP. His representative areas of experience were focused on free/open-source licensing and compliance, online and mobile tracking, FTC inquiry and order compliance, regulatory data security compliance, development of internal privacy and data security practices, biometrics, and regulatory policy. <br><br><br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
Techno-Activism Third Mondays (<span>TA3M</span>) is an informal meetup designed to<br>
connect software creators and activists who are interested in censorship,<br>
surveillance, and open technology. Currently, <span>TA3M</span> are held in various<br>
cities throughout the world, with many more launching in the near future.<br>
In Seattle, thanks to a special donor, there will be free pizza!<br>
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