[Festival] IFF Weekly | June 19 - 23

Mon Jun 19 19:22:24 CEST 2017

Dear friends,

We’ve been thrilled to hear your thoughts on all our new initiatives and
our planning for the 2018 Festival. Please keep your ideas coming and
let us know what we can do to, as was said at the #AMC2017, “Get Ready,
Stay Ready”.

Here are the updates for June 19 - 23:

### IFF 2018: Fellowship Application Deadline Approaching ###

The June 30 deadline for IFF’s 2018 Fellowship application is getting
closer! Many professionals and leaders in Internet Freedom from around
the world working on many different challenges have answered the call to
help make guide the content for the 2018 Festival.

Please help us spread the word about the IFF Fellowship! The Fellowship
is a great way to empower leaders throughout the world while making sure
we about their efforts and ideas. We need your help to reaching out to
the furthest nodes in our networks and make sure the Festival’s content
empowers and amplifies all the voices of Internet Freedom throughout the
world!

https://internetfreedomfestival.org/2018-fellowship/
https://twitter.com/InternetFF/status/876827771556835329

### News and Updates ###

*** Mexican Journalists targeted by Government "cyber warfare" ***

According to an Investigation by R3D, SocialTic and Article19, over 76
messages with links to NSO Group’s exploit framework were sent to
Mexican journalists, lawyers, and a minor child (NSO Group is a
self-described “cyber warfare” company that sells government-exclusive
spyware).

The targets were working on a range of issues that include
investigations of corruption by the Mexican President, and the
participation of Mexico’s Federal authorities in human rights abuses.
Some of the messages impersonated the Embassy of the United States of
America to Mexico, others masqueraded as emergency AMBER Alerts about
abducted children.

https://r3d.mx/gobiernoespia/
https://citizenlab.org/2017/06/reckless-exploit-mexico-nso/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/19/world/americas/mexico-spyware-anticrime.html

### Community Stories ###

How do you perceive the term “Internet Freedom”?
What are the main Internet Freedom issues in your life and work?
What are the tough challenges you encounter in doing your work at home
and abroad?
What are the biggest misconceptions you face in doing your work, at home
and abroad?

We created the IFF Community Stories publication to help you get the
word out about your work within the community and to a broader audience.
Reply to this e-mail with a quick “story pitch” of 100 words or less or
any ideas you have to tell the world more about what you do.

https://medium.com/iff-community-stories

### Upcoming Events ###

Are you heading to a conference and need a platform to stay in touch?
Mattermost, an Open Source, self-hosted alternative to Slack has great
mobile apps specifically for that purpose! We used it last week at the
Allied Media Conference in Detroit.

Request an invite at:
https://community.internetfreedomfestival.org/signup_user_complete/?id=71jwiewte7bb9rqq85s3d8to5w

* Open Source Bridge *
+ When: June 20-23, 2017
+ Where: Portland, OR
+ Website: http://opensourcebridge.org/

Open Source Bridge is an annual conference focused on building open
source community and citizenship through four days of technical talks,
hacking sessions, and collaboration opportunities. Participants include
developers, hardware hackers, community organizers, and people involved
in the business of open source.

* Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) *
+ When: July 18-21, 2017
+ Where: Minneapolis (MN), USA
+ Website: https://petsymposium.org/

The annual Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) brings
together privacy experts from around the world to present and discuss
recent advances and new perspectives on research in privacy technologies.

* SHA2017 *
+ When: August 4-8, 2017
+ Where: Scoutinglandgoed in Zeewolde, Netherlands
+ Website: https://sha2017.org/

SHA2017 is an international non-profit outdoor hacker camp/conference.
The camp is organized for and by volunteers from and around all facets
of the international hacker community.

Join the Internet Freedom Camp “Fuzzy Freedom Fractal” where we’ll have
a presence!

* MyData 2017 *
+ When: August 30-Sep 1
+ Where: Tallinn (Estonia) & and (Helsinki, Finland)
+ Website: https://mydata2017.org/

MyData is a human centred approach in personal data management that
combines industry need to data with digital human rights. MyData 2017
conference brings together businesses, the research community, civil
society and government to shape the fundamentals on how personal data is
managed globally.

* CopyCamp 2017: Internet of Copyrighted Things *
+ When: September 28-29
+ Where: Warsaw, Poland
+ Website: http://copycamp.pl/en/

CopyCamp is the biggest conference about social and economic aspects of
copyright in Europe. It has been the place for a balanced, original, and
multi-sided debate, facilitating the exchange of ideas about exclusive
rights all over Europe and abroad. CopyCamp discusses the law, but it is
not a legal conference, reaching out to people active in culture,
education, science, government, and technology. This year we also wish
to invite those active in other areas, for example, health, food, or
security.

### Community Spotlight ###

Looking for new adventures in the Internet Freedom space? Drop us line
with your profile and we will feature it here to help you connect with
your next great team :)

Name: Szeming
+ Availability: From July, 30-40 hours per week.
+ Location: Remote Work, open to opportunities in Southeast Asia, East
Asia or Asia-Pacific.
+ Ideal positions: Project/Programme Manager, Digital rights
coordinator, Community Organiser, Policy Researcher.
+ Skills: Project/programme management, Public Policy Research,
Strategic engagement, Advocacy.
+ Areas of interest: Digital rights, Digital security & privacy, Civic
tech, Human rights & business.
+ Resume: http://bit.ly/2rWAHnI
+ Contact: szeming at riseup.net; T: @eikologyy

### Job Opportunities ###
You know the greatest thing about our Job Board? It’s entirely driven by
your submissions and community support! Please spread the word to all
those in the market for a new candidate or job opportunity. Submit there
and we’ll include your job here in the weekly too!

All submitted jobs are always available at:
https://internetfreedomfestival.org/job-board/

✎ * Browser Developer - The Tor Project *
+ Location: Seattle (or Remote)
+ https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs-browserdeveloper.html.en

✎ * Projects Manager - Open Knowledge Foundation Germany *
+ Location: Berlin
+
https://prototypefund.de/2017/06/09/der-prototype-fund-sucht-unterstuetzung/

✎ * Information Security Specialist - Counterpart International *
+ Location: FSU, Central Asia or East Europe
+
https://recruiting.ultipro.com/COU1004COUNT/JobBoard/311ebbe2-8c13-4f9e-a674-863e60ad790f/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=49afe733-e9e3-4f49-b9b9-ca5f6ffbdff0

✎ * Researcher and Lead Author - World Wide Web Foundation *
+ Location: Nigeria
+
http://webfoundation.org/docs/2017/06/TORResearcherLeadAuthor-PersonalDataProtectionNigeria1.pdf

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The IFF Team