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<P STYLE="text-align: center;"><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: medium; color: #ff6600;"><STRONG><SPAN STYLE="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">Learn about the unique privacy and security challenges <BR>the LGBTQ commuity faces worldwide.</SPAN></STRONG></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="text-align: left;"><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;"><STRONG>Digital surveillance and entrapment ofLGBTQ individuals is on the rise</STRONG> <STRONG>worldwide</STRONG>. In places like Saudi Arabia where homosexuality is punishable by death, gay men have been detained for looking for sex partners online. In other countries,</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;">LGBTQ freedom of speech is being challenged as websites are blocked and cellular networks are censored - this includes in our own backyard.</SPAN></P>
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<P STYLE="text-align: left;"><STRONG STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;"><IMG STYLE="float: left; margin: 10px;" SRC="https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/12204159/eric.jpg" ALT="" WIDTH="125"><STRONG STYLE="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em;"><BR></STRONG><STRONG STYLE="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em;"><STRONG STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;"><IMG STYLE="margin: 10px; float: right;" SRC="https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/12204159/scruffs.png" ALT="" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="90"></STRONG></STRONG>Eric Silverberg</STRONG><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;"> is the founder and CEO of SCRUFF, one of the largest gay social apps in the world, and a developer by trade who has worked at both at Google and Microsoft. He will discuss:</SPAN></P>
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<LI><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;">Challenges facing gay men and women in non-western regions</SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;"><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;">Censorship by networks, including cellular networks in the US/EU</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;"></SPAN></LI>
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<LI><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;"><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;">Scruff initaitives to keep people safe when they travel. <BR></SPAN></SPAN></LI>
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<P><STRONG STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;"><BR><IMG STYLE="float: left; margin: 10px;" SRC="https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/12204159/kodyvnice.jpg" ALT="" WIDTH="125">Kody Leonard </STRONG><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;">is an ICT specialist with The ISC project who helps LGBTQ activists on the frontlines. He has lived and worked in various parts of Africa for the past four years, including Sudan and his current home in Senegal. He will dicuss:</SPAN></P>
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<LI><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;">Overarching themes to threats using technology</SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;">Challenges when engaging with the LGBTI community in the field</SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;">Recent efforts by organizations to develop the conversation and</SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;"><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;">Activities around where technology and the LBGTI community intersect.</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;"></SPAN></LI>
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<P><STRONG STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;"><BR><IMG STYLE="float: left; margin: 10px;" SRC="https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/12204159/maria.jpg" ALT="" WIDTH="125">Maria Sjdin</STRONG> is Director of Development and External Relations with IGLHRC - the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission. After 15 years in the LGBT movement in Sweden and working on international LGBT issues for almost 10, Maria will bring perspectives from LGBT organizations around the world on:</P>
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<LI><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;">Engaging with others create risks</SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;">Reaching out to communities means exposure</SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;">Digital literacy and the challenges of doing everything when you don't have enough resources<BR></SPAN></LI>
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<P><EM STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;"><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 16px;">T</SPAN></EM><EM STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;"><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 16px;">his TA3M event is hosted by OpenITP and sponsored by the following projects:</SPAN></EM></P>
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<P><SPAN STYLE="color: #000000;"><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 16px;">The ISC Project provides advanced, sustained information security assistance to civil society organizations, independent media and human rights activists in countries where free expression, journalistic reporting, online communications and advocacy are critical to societal liberalization and development but potentially risky to personal safety. For more information, contact info@iscproject.org.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
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