[Ta3m-Seattle] Ta3M tonight!

[Meg Young]

TA3M Seattle is meeting TONIGHT!  We are lucky to be hosting two great
talks this month. Thanks to a special donor, there will be free pizza!

*Speakers*:
Tony Collette: “A Telegraph-Era Technology Re-Imagined To Restore Privacy
Today.”
Jared Friend: "ACLU Technology and Liberty Program Director"

*When*: Monday, February 15, 2016, 6:30PM
*Where*: UW Campus, Computer Science & Engineering Building, Room 403
*Note:* The building is locked for the national holiday, but we will have
someone by the SE entrance to let you in.  Email megyoung at uw.edu if you
arrive late and get locked out.


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*Tony Collette: “A Telegraph-Era Technology Re-Imagined To Restore Privacy
Today”*

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?

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?

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?

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.

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*Jared Friend: ACLU Technology and Liberty Program Director *
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.


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Techno-Activism Third Mondays (TA3M) is an informal meetup designed to
connect software creators and activists who are interested in censorship,
surveillance, and open technology.  Currently, TA3M are held in various
cities throughout the world, with many more launching in the near future.
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