[Festival] IFF Weekly | May 14-18

[IFF Team]

Dear friends,

This newsletter is at the service of the community to highlight 
interesting updates, open positions, events and resources for the 
Internet Freedom defenders around the world. If you want to submit 
something for the next newsletter, please email 
team at internetfreedomfestival.org.

Here are your updates for the week of May 14 – May 18:

### News and Updates ###

*** EFAIL - vulnerabilities identified in PGP that can leak plaintext of 
encrypted emails ***

A group of European security researchers released a paper that describes 
a new class of serious vulnerabilities in PGP (including GPG), the most 
popular email encryption standard. An attacker to use the victim’s own 
email client to decrypt previously acquired messages and return the 
decrypted content to the attacker without alerting the victim. EFF is 
advising PGP users to uninstall or disable your PGP email plug-in and 
use alternative modes of secure end-to-end communication for now.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/not-so-pretty-what-you-need-know-about-e-fail-and-pgp-flaw-0 


*** Imagining Futures Survey ***

Can futurism be a way to build community and power in the digital age 
for countries of the Global South? Our friends @dalitdiva, @EqualityLabs 
& @UChicagoCi3 have launched a survey and they are asking for 15 minutes 
of your time to consider alternative futures. This survey is meant to 
harness our greatest weapons against this pessimism: our imagination. 
The results will be part of a traveling art exhibition on liberatory 
futures!

https://www.equalitylabs.org/imagining-futures/

*** Privacy and Freedom of Expression In the Age of Artificial 
Intelligence ***

In this paper by Privacy International & Article 19, the key ways in 
which AI impacts the right to freedom of expression and the right to 
privacy and outline key challenges are examined, and offers a review the 
current landscape of AI governance, including various existing legal, 
technical, and corporate frameworks and industry-led AI initiatives that 
are relevant to freedom of expression and privacy.

https://www.article19.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Privacy-and-Freedom-of-Expression-In-the-Age-of-Artificial-Intelligence-1.pdf

### Events Calendar ###

Please note that we only feature events with a code of conduct. Have a 
look at the full Internet Freedom Events Calendar over here: 
https://internetfreedomfestival.org/internet-freedom-events-calendar/

⚐ RightsCon | 16-18 May, 2018
+ Toronto, Canada
https://www.rightscon.org/

⚐ Allied Media Conference | 14-17 June, 2018
+ Detroit, USA
https://www.alliedmedia.org/amc

⚐ State of Our Networks | 13-18 July, 2018
+ Toronto, Canada
https://ournetworks.ca/

⚐ Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI '18) | 14 August, 2018
+ Baltimore, USA
https://www.usenix.org/conference/foci18

### Job Opportunities ###

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

✎ Production Manager | Mozilla Festival (MozFest)
+ Flexible
https://careers.mozilla.org/position/gh/1098012

✎ Recruiter | Callisto
+ San Francisco, US
https://jobs.lever.co/projectcallisto/99697d41-e705-49b2-a905-4fe7bf35bc89

✎ Oficial de Comunicación e Incidencia para la Asociación Civil | 
SonTusDatos.org
+ Mexico City, Mexico
https://sontusdatos.org/trabaja-con-nosotros/oficial-incidencia-y-comunicacion/ 


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Lots of love,
The IFF Team