This project's focus is to educate our community on how to safely interact with the internet. With April Glaser and Nate Cardozo from the Electronic Frontier Foundation as our key note speakers, they went over topics concerning their activist and legal work, information about the NSA, while touching on the information that were later presented in the booths.
Basic Information:
- Date: March 10, 2014 (Monday)
- Place: EMU Fir Room
- Free Voodoo donuts for the first 100 people
- Facebook Page & Nm + C2 Blog Post
- Time: 1-3p
Keynote Speakers:
- EFF Activist, April Glaser and EFF Lawyer, Nate Cardozo, gave a 50 minute presentation on the legal and activist work the Electronic Frontier Foundation is currently working on. Hitting on the subjects that were also presented in the individual booths, the talk had an overarching topic of providing information on how to protect one's self on the Internet. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a non-profit organization that is working on protecting people's privacy rights on the Internet. They are one of the few organizations that is currently perusing an active lawsuit against the National Security Agency (NSA). Alongside, they also notify the public of any new information that is leaked about the agency. They work with a variety of different topics, including: free speech, fair use, innovation, international policy, privacy rights, and government transparency.
Booths:
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Privacy Policy
- Privacy Drive
- Karen Estlund on Open Source
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Jonh Phelps on Outernet Broadcasting and Open-source/ Shared Online Software Development
Term
Winter 2014
Category
Knowledge & Information
Short Summary
Planning and organizing the Digital Rights event at the University of Oregon!
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