Portland's Techno-Activism 3rd Monday
Event Information
Description
Event Description
This month's topic is: Using Metadata to Compromise Privacy: An Interactive Presentation
You've probably heard that your daily interactions over the web leave "metadata" that is used for advertising, law enforcement, and intelligence activities. In this presentation we will show what metadata is and what it can do by building case files from publicly available information. What types of things can you learn about yourself or others from metadata? Come find out.
This session will be lead by a Machine Learning PhD student from Oregon State University, which is the area of computer science responsible for programmatically processing metadata.
What should I bring?
- A willingness to learn or to teach
- A laptop
- (optional) A current news story that you want to discuss with the group related to privacy/security/surveillance/censorship
- Flux accepts donations so consider bringing a few bucks to show your appreciation for their support of this and future events.
What is it?
This is the Techno-Activism 3rd Monday event for Portland, Oregon! Read more about techno-activism 3rd mondays.
Who should come?
Anyone interested in techno-activism. We invite coders, geeks, artists, and anyone else. No technical experience required.
Who's hosting?
Flux is generously providing space for the event.
The Privly Foundation will organize this and future TA3M Portland events.
Code of Conduct
Please read Flux's Code of Conduct: http://fluxlab.io/conduct-agreements/ to ensure a safe space for all.
PDXTech4Good
If you're interested in this event, you might also be interested in the PDXTech4Good meetup.
Organizer The Privly Foundation
Organizer of Portland's Techno-Activism 3rd Monday
The founding purpose of the Privly Foundation is to empower the Privly community to participate in and contribute to privacy software projects by fostering awareness of privacy issues and building a community of mutual support around Privly development. The Privly Foundation was founded following a successful crowdfunding round in 2012.
Privly is an open source community project for taking back control of personal information. Privly makes it impossible for others to control your data. By installing our browser extension, you are able to keep your content, well, your content. For those who don’t have the extension installed, they see a simple link that sends them to your post, photo, video, etc. For those who do have the extension installed, they are able to see your post on the page as it was intended.
