It’s always great to attend security and privacy conferences in person. But in cases where you have to miss an event, online videos of the talks can be a great way to stay current with the ongoing conversation.
Art, Design, and The Future of Privacy
As I promised back in September, the videos of the event we co-hosted with DIS Magazine at Pioneer Works are available online. The DIS blog had a great writeup with summaries of the different panels, and you can find transcripts over at Open Transcripts. I had a great time participating and came away with some great perspectives.
Two of my favorite sessions were Sarah Ball talking about unique perspective from her work as a prison librarian and our advisor Cory Doctorow’s barn-burning sendoff at the end.
Video links:
- Preface
- Welcome – Meredith Whittaker and Marvin Jordan
- Human rights meets design challenges – Scout Sinclair Brody
- Digital Privacy IRL: Architecture, public space, and its role in preserving online rights – Noah Biklen and Sarah Gold, moderated by Ame Elliott
- If you build it they won’t care: Designing privacy-preserving technologies for people with other interests – Tyler Reinhard, Ame Elliott, and Harlo Holmes, moderated by Scout Sinclair Brody
- Ask a Prison Librarian about privacy, technology, and state control – Cory Doctorow interviewing Sarah Ball
- No, thank you: Agency, imagination, and possibilities for rejecting world-changing technological innovation – Kate Crawford, Lauren McCarthy and Allison Burtch, moderated by Meredith Whittaker
- Where to from here? – Cory Doctorow
Shmoocon 2016
In an earlier post, I described the talk that Gus and I gave last month at Shmoocon, and linked to the slides. Videos for the whole conference are now online, including one of our talk, which highlights some practical, low-cost things that any software team can do to improve the user-experience design of their project.
Enigma
Last week’s USENIX Enigma Conference had a great slate of speakers and we’ve heard some positive feedback about it on our Slack channel. Watching via YouTube, I particularly enjoyed hearing Adrienne Porter Felt talk about some of her team’s efforts to make security more accessible and useful for their users.