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Powerful surveillance software for everyday use tune in our calls, text messages, real-time GPS location or encrypted messaging apps like WhatsApp. These capabilities can afford dramatic powers & control over an individual's everyday life. Surveillance apps for private purposes are routinely linked to identity theft, physical injuries, sexual harassment, extortion & child abuse, among others. Some are marketed as ways for employers to monitor the movements of their workers, or for parents to check electronically on the whereabouts of their children. Others promise to help you to reveal infidelity. However, the same malicious software with an aim to monitor & control a targeted person is being also sold to the governments.
Where do the tech community, the police, & the policymakers stand on the issue of deployment of surveillance apps for private purposes?
How are such products used by the governments?
Is the usage of such software legal?
And, lastly, how do you safeguard yourself against an attack?
About the Speaker
The speaker at this LogicLounge, Eva Galperin is the director of cybersecurity at Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which champions user privacy, free expression, & innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, & technology development. Eva Galperin has worked in security & IT in Silicon Valley & earned degrees in Political Science & International Relations. Her work is primarily focused on providing privacy & security for vulnerable populations around the world. To that end, she has applied the combination of her political science & technical background to writing privacy & security training materials & publishing research on malware in Syria, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, & Lebanon.
About the LogicLounge
After Oxford & Vienna, the upcoming public talk in New York on July 15, is already the 15th in the series of LogicLounges which feature discussions between the public & the eminent scientists in the fields of logic, philosophy, mathematics, computer science, & artificial intelligence.
About the Organizers
The LogicLounge with Eva Galperin is once again hosted by the 31st International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (CAV 2019) & organized by Daniel Schwartz-Narbonne, AWS, in collaboration with the Vienna Center for Logic & Algorithms at TU Wien (VCLA). The event is supported by the Internet Society - The New York Chapter, which will also provide a Livestream of the event here.
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