PrivChat

una conversazione su tecnologia, diritti umani e libertà di Internet, a cura del Progetto Tor

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PrivChat with Tor

Chapter #6 - Privacy is a human right

12/15 ∙ 19:00 UTC ∙ 14:00 Eastern ∙ 11:00 Pacific ∙ @torproject YouTube channel

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Privacy is about protecting what makes us humans: our day-to-day behavior, our personality, our fears, our relationships, and our vulnerabilities. Everyone deserves privacy. The United Nations even codified privacy as a human right in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. However, governments, corporations, and other powerful entities routinely block us from exercising our right to privacy through surveillance, monitoring, and tracking.

Activists, human rights defenders, minorities and people protesting for change are often the targets of this surveillance, and thus have a unique perspective on the critical importance of privacy and anonymity online.

In this edition of PrivChat, we're bringing together a group of panelists with direct experience as activists or working with activist groups who will talk about their experiences with surveillance and privacy:

Join Ali Gharavi, Senior Programme Specialist, Swedish International Development Agency; Nadya Tolokonnika, artist, activist, and founding member of Pussy Riot; and Nicholas Merrill, founder and Executive Director, the Calyx Institute to discuss their experiences with surveillance and why fighting for privacy is a key part of ensuring human rights for all.

Cindy Cohn, Executive Director of EFF, will join us as our host and moderator.

Host

Cindy Cohn

Executive Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Cindy Cohn is the Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. From 2000-2015 she served as EFF's Legal Director as well as its General Counsel. In 1993, EFF she served lead attorney in Bernstein v. Dept. of Justice, the successful First Amendment challenge to the U.S. export restrictions on cryptography. Among other honors, Ms. Cohn was named to TheNonProfitTimes 2020 Power & Influence TOP 50 list, and in 2018, Forbes included Ms. Cohn as one of America's Top 50 Women in Tech. In 2013, The National Law Journal named Ms. Cohn one of 100 most influential lawyers in America, noting: "If Big Brother is watching, he better look out for Cindy Cohn."

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Ali Gharavi

Senior Programme Specialist, Swedish International Development Agency

Ali Gharavi has been a leader in facilitation, mentoring, and strategic accompaniment of Human Rights Defenders' organizations for more than 18 years, and is co-author of Holistic Security - A manual for Human Rights Defenders. He has helped in designing and implementing programs entailing long-term, multidisciplinary accompaniment of HRD organizations to ensure their sustainability and strategic success. Ali has facilitated, trained, and consulted over 200 HRD projects, organizations, and foundations and has worked in this capacity in over 50 countries. He is currently working as a Senior Programme Specialist at the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA)'s Unit for Democracy and Human Rights, with a concentration on Freedom of Expression and Information and Communication Technologies.

Nadya Tolokonnika

Artist, activist, and founding member of Pussy Riot

Nadya Tolokonnika is a conceptual artist, activist, and founding member of Pussy Riot, a global feminist protest art movement. Pussy Riot stands for gender fluidity, inclusivity, matriarchy, love, laughter, decentralization, anarchy, and anti-authoritarianism. Today, hundreds of people identify as a part of the Pussy Riot community. In 2012, Nadya was sentenced to 2 years' imprisonment following an anti-Putin performance and went through a hunger strike protesting savage prison conditions and ended up being sent to a Siberian penal colony, where she managed to maintain her artistic activity and with her prison punk band she put together to tour around Siberian labor camps. In 2018, she has published a book, Read and Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism. In 2021, Pussy Riot joined PleasrDAO, a supporter of a stronger female representation in the NFT space, as a member.

Nicholas Merrill

Founder and Executive Director, the Calyx Institute

Nicholas Merrill is the founder and Executive Director of The Calyx Institute. Previous to this, he founded the for-profit Calyx Internet Access Corporation in 1995, one of the first commercial Internet service providers operating in New York City. His work focuses on promoting privacy and freedom of expression online and in the telecommunications industry. Nick is a recipient of the ACLU\u2019s Roger Baldwin Medal of Liberty and the Bill of Rights Defense Committee\u2019s Patriot Award.

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Edizioni

PrivChat with Tor Capitolo 5 - Protezione contro Pegasus

With Likhita, Etienne Maynier and John Scott-Railton. Hosted by Roger Dingledine.

Ogni anno i governi, le forze dell'ordine, le forze armate e le aziende investono miliardi di dollari nella creazione e nell'acquisto di spyware dannosi, software progettati per infiltrarsi silenziosamente nel dispositivo dell'utente e consentire agli aggressori di visualizzarne il contenuto senza essere scoperti. Quest'anno, il Progetto Pegasus ha rivelato che gli utenti di questo tipo di spyware, noto come Pegasus e costruito dal gruppo NSO, hanno preso di mira i telefoni di migliaia di persone in più di 50 Paesi, tra cui dirigenti d'azienda, politici, giornalisti e attivisti per i diritti umani. In this edition of PrivChat, join Likhita and Etienne Maynier of Amnesty International and John Scott-Railton of Citizen Lab to discuss how people can protect themselves, what organizations we can support to stop this abuse and who is working on safer, more private software that we can trust?

PrivChat with Tor Capitolo #4 - 25° anniversario di Onion Routing

With Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson, Paul Syverson. Hosted by Gabriella Coleman.

Festeggia i 25 anni di routing a cipolla con Tor! Il 31 maggio 2021 ricorre il 25° anniversario della prima presentazione pubblica dell'onion routing a Cambridge, nel Regno Unito, in occasione del primo Information Hiding Workshop dell'Isaac Newton Institute.

You're invited to celebrate this special moment with us to talk about the beginnings of onion routing, and how this idea became Tor, and how the Tor Project eventually came to be. We\u2019ll be joined by Paul Syverson, one of the authors of the first onion routing paper, together with the Tor Project co-founders Roger Dingledine and Nick Mathewson.

Rifletteremo sui primi giorni della rete di routing a cipolla presso il Naval Research Lab (NRL) degli Stati Uniti. (All'epoca, le connessioni dei router a cipolla passavano attraverso cinque nodi, invece degli attuali tre nodi di Tor). Non è un segreto che il concetto di routing a cipolla sia nato all'NRL (si trova sulla pagina della nostra storia), ma c'è molto altro che vogliamo condividere su come Tor è nato e su dove siamo arrivati negli ultimi 25 anni.

PrivChat with Tor Chapter #3 - Tor Advancing Human Rights

With Alison Macrina, Berhan Taye and Ramy Raoof. Hosted by Ed Snowden.

The Tor Project's main mission is to advance human rights and freedoms by creating and deploying free and open source anonymity and privacy technologies. People use our technology, namely the Tor network and Tor Browser, in diverse ways. Tor is used by whistleblowers who need a safe way to bring to light information about wrongdoing -- information that is crucial for society to know -- without sharing their identity. Tor is used by activists around the world who are fighting against authoritarian governments and to defend human rights, not only for their safety and anonymity, but also to circumvent internet censorship so their voices can be heard. Tor allows millions of people to protect themselves online, no matter what privilege they have or don't have. For our third edition of PrivChat, we are bringing you some real-life Tor users who will share how Tor has been important for them and their work to defend human rights and freedoms around the world.

PrivChat with Tor Capitolo #2 - Il buono, Il cattivo, Il brutto della cesura

With Felicia Anthonio, Vrinda Bhandari, Cecylia Bocovich and Arturo Filastò. Hosted by Cory Doctorow.

Every year, internet censorship increases globally. From network level blocking to nation-wide internet blackouts, governments and private companies have powerful tools to restrict information and prevent connections between people. Many people, groups, and organizations are doing innovative work to study, measure, and fight back against internet censorship--and they are helping millions of people connect more regularly and safely to the internet. Despite these successes, we're faced with well-funded adversaries that have billions of dollars to spend on censorship mechanisms, and the arms race is ongoing. The second edition of PrivChat with Tor will be about the Good, the Bad and the Ugly that is happening in the front lines of censorship circumvention. In a world where censorship technology is increasingly sophisticated and bought and sold between nations, so is our creativity to measure it and build tools to bypass it, as well as the willingness of people to fight back. But is it enough? What are the barriers facing the people and organizations fighting for internet freedom?

PrivChat with Tor Capitolo #1 - Privacy Online nel 2020: Attivismo & COVID-19

With Carmela Troncoso, Daniel Kahn Gillmor and Matt Mitchell. Hosted by Roger Dingledine.

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit most countries around the world, many governments looked for technology to trace the spread of the virus in order to fight the pandemic. Contact tracing practices and technologies raised many questions about privacy, particularly: is it possible to trace the virus while respecting people's privacy? Now amidst the uprising in the U.S. against systemic racism, followed by protests all around the world, the central question about contact tracing, privacy, and surveillance becomes critical. Can the technology used for tracking the virus be used to track protesters? Will it be? Per la nostra prima PrivChat, il Tor Project sta portando 3 ospiti speciali a chattare con noi sulla privacy in questo contesto.