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RightsCon Toronto 2018

Welcome to the Official Schedule for RightsCon Toronto 2018. This year’s program, built by our global community, is our most ambitious one yet. Within the program, you will find 18 thematic tracks to help you navigate our 450+ sessions.

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08:00 EDT

A Human Rights Approach to Regulating User-Generated Content Online: Preview of the UN Special Rapporteur’s Report to the Human Rights Council 206C

09:00 EDT

Auditing Algorithms 206B The Global Digital Platform and the Nation State: Roles responsibilities and interactions to optimize human rights in the digital space 206D Whose story is it anyway? Decoding the Collection & Sharing of Information 201A How to Create for Citizens in Sensitive Digital Space 201B Pawah! tech for human rights 200B How do you teach privacy tools without the word "privacy"? 200A Digital Security for Civil Societies in Africa 204B Help, We Are Under Attack! - a Peek into the Community of Rapid Responders 206A Digital literacy for all: how can libraries help? 204C Lightning Talks: Representation, Inspiration, and Community Building 205A Women’s voices cocreate the Internet 204A Tightening the Net: The case of Internet Controls in Iran 202B Making Safe Online Access to Affordable Medication Real: Addressing the UN Human Rights resolution for access to essential medicines 201C How Scientology and Porn Shaped the Internet 203A Leveraging Technology to Address Misinformation 205B Trading Up: What Net Neutrality Means for Small Businesses and Trade 200C Will the Right to be Forgotten come to Canada? 206C Data Driven Decency: New, Collaborative Experiments to Diminish Online Hate and Harassment Online 205C Civil Society Under Assault Online: Threats, Opportunities, and Stories From Across the Regions 203B Access Now Digital Security Clinic Access Now Lounge

10:00 EDT

Antitrust is back! But is it the silver bullet? Village Main Stage

10:30 EDT

Hacia una CUIDAdanía Digital Village Main Stage Data Rights Policy: Do AI Ethics, Privacy and Open Data Activists need each other to succeed? 206C Trickle-Down Progress: Messaging Traps in Strategic Campaigning 201B Changes and Challenges, scary but necessary". Facing challenges in Digital Security Training models and how change could become a fantastic tool to achieve creative solutions 201A Internet Freedom in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia: Access Denied or Revived? 200B Levelling the Playing Field: Partisan Political Expression in a Digital World 203B Principles into Practice: Crowdsourcing Advocacy Strategies to Promote Digital Rights 206A Social Media Takedowns: Protecting Who? 202B Secure UX Principles: Let's build a checklist for user security and good design 201C Digital Access: Bridging the divide or bringing exclusion? 206D Elections and information disorders in Latin America. 205B Lightning Talks: Responses to Fake News: Blockchain, Critical Thought or Criminalization 205A Breaking the Silence: Digital Media and the Struggle for LGBTQ Rights in Iran 200C The global state of data protection 205C Global Perspectives on Technology Facilitated Violence Against Women and Girls 203A Shooting the messenger: the rise of intermediary liability around the world 204B Fireside Chat with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman and GC Melissa Tidwell 204C LIVE FROM GAZA: Telecon Bridge with Palestinian NGOs, Youth in Gaza City and Khan Younis 200A Smart Cities, Smart Decisions: the personal data of smart city citizens 206B Video Forensics at The New York Times 204A

11:00 EDT

Beyond the Hype Cycle: What does Blockchain Mean for Human Rights Online? Village Main Stage

11:30 EDT

Mapping the Artificial Intelligence, Networked Hate, and Human Rights Landscape Village Main Stage

12:00 EDT

Inventing Digital Civil Society Village Main Stage Mobilising the Might of Rights: A Human Rights Based Approach to AI 202B Robots and Rights: Exploring the Impacts of Automation on the Future of Work 203A This Panel May Contain Sensitive Content: Automated Filtering and the Future of Free Expression Online 201B Who Did it? Why we need an International Cyber Attribution Organization to address nation-state attacks in cyberspace 200C Engaging Citizens at Scale in Restrictive Environments 203B My Network. My Choice - An overview of feminist and antipatriarchal autonomous infrastructures, from servers to hackerspaces 204A Tech Demo Block #3: Privacy and digital security for all 200A Addressing the digital divide in Indigenous Communities in North America 201C Prisoners' Rights in the Digital Age 205C Lightning Talks: Quantum Computation, Differential Privacy, and Cybersecurity Threats 205A Harmful Content: Fighting Online Terrorist Incitement and Politically Motivated Disinformation 204B Mind the Shark: Informational Flow in Natural Disasters, from Fake News to Rumors 200B Offline Doesn’t Exist Anymore 205B 10 days before the EU GDPR becomes applicable: are you ready? 204C Human Rights Requirements of Cross-Border Data Demands 201A Promoting LGBTI security and inclusion in the digital world: aligning policies and practices with the UN United Nations Human Rights's Global LGBTI Corporate Standards 206B McCarthyism for Muslims 206C Fast-forward to 2030: Can technology break the silos around human rights? 206D

12:30 EDT

Digital Evidence Forum - Experimental Design Session Village Main Stage

13:20 EDT

UNESCO Internet Universality indicators: to shape a free and open Internet that enables rights, empowers individuals and facilitates sustainable development 201A Roleplay: Digital Participation Monopoly - An interactive Game around the right to Freedom of Speech 205C The future of Digital Security education for human rights defenders - developing sustainable continuous learning approaches 206C UX/Tech Meetup at RightsCon 200A Cross-Harm Collaboration: Building strategic responses to risks and harms online 206D Cybercrime reform in Latin America: findings on the implementation of the Convention of Budapest 205B

14:30 EDT

Accountability for AI - Remediating Bias in Machines 202B Do Bots Have Rights? Do They Threaten Rights? 203A Machine learning, human understanding: AI and access to knowledge 206B Hacking Civic Innovation: Inclusion Edition 201B Archiving At Risk (and Risky) Information: You Don’t Know What You Got Til It’s Gone (Or Misused) 200B Tech Demo Block #4: Digital, legal and cultural challenges for digital rights 200A Building Cross-sectoral Partnerships To Improve LGBTQIA Digital Security. 201A Access No_! Voices from the Front Line 206C From the Amazon to Saskatchewan: Tools of Indigenous Autonomy and Solidarity 206D What about the 'invisible' unconnected? Targeting gender digital divides with policies and measures informed by evidence from the Global South 200C Lightning Talks: Front Lines of Digital Freedom 205A New threats to music and sonic culture in the digital age 204C Cyber Insurance: A Primer for Infosec Community 206A Take on the Fake! Design thinking to combat fake news 205C Digital Human Rights in the Middle East 203B The evidence locker of the 21st century: cooperation between social media platforms and law enforcement authorities for preserving digital material for justice 204B Extreme Vetting: Tools & Troubles 205B Reforming Intermediary Responsibility: Testing a Human Rights Centred Framework Beyond the Liability and Immunity Divide 201C The Fourth Industrial Revolution and civil society: Turning the tide from where we’re heading 204A

15:00 EDT

The Criminal (In)Justice System & the Impact of Technology-Focused Reforms Village Main Stage

15:30 EDT

Revving up Civil Society Engagement at the ITU: The Road to the 2018 Plenipotentiary Conference Village Main Stage

16:00 EDT

Mapping Digital Rights in Central America (and how to fund the work) Village Main Stage Lightning Talks: Who Decides? Dominant and Marginalized Voices for the Global Internet 205A Naming, Shaming & Litigating: Access to Human Rights Information Online 201B Reframed! Media Analysis for Digital Inclusion 200B On the Shoulders of Giants: Empowering the Next Generation of Digital Citizens 200C Building resilience: Creative responses to internet censorship + shutdowns 200A Coders Free Speech Rights in The Americas at Risk 201C Defending minority voices on a censored internet 205B Understanding Freedom of Expression in Southeast Asia: Internet Freedom and Online Censorship 203B Can trade agreements such as CPTPP NAFTA and RCEP be used as a tool for advancing digital rights? 204B Is it misinformation or persuasion that is the problem? 206A The Impact of the lack of Network Neutrality on Freedom of Expression in MENA region 204A Organizational Security for Organization Leaders 205C A communication operator's view on investigatory powers and privacy - what's our role? 203A Internet of (Stranger) Things: Privacy threats of the next generation of vulnerable devices 206C Transparency Reporting: The New Frontier 206B Access Now's Heroes at RightsCon 202B Africa’s Digital Rights Secretariat: Net Rights Africa Coalition and its prospects 201A Civic Storytelling at the Frontlines: Connecting Local to Global Narratives 206D Digital Landscapes of Trans Activism in Central Asia and Eastern Europe: Threats, Opportunities and Resistance 204C

16:30 EDT

Open MIC (Open Media and Information Companies Initiative): Working with Companies and Investors to Shape the Digital Future Village Main Stage

17:00 EDT

Facing Detention During (Digital) Security Trainings: Solidarity, Care and Resistance Village Main Stage

17:15 EDT

Electoral Choices and Artificial Intelligence: The Need for Transnational Collaboration in Africa 204C Building an Open Source Tech Stack for Open Source Investigation 200A Beyond security updates: Providing relevant, accessible, and sustainable digital security advice online 201C Masculinity in Online Spaces 204B Disappearing space, Disappearing voices: How the Chinese government & Big Tech are silencing Tibetans online 203B The Invisible Censorship: Crippling the Internet Infrastructure 205B Can Rights Be Enforced by Crypto Protocols? 201B Harnessing Big Data and Artificial Intelligence to Advance Knowledge Societies and Sustainable Development 201A Cheap and chipper: IP in India’s affordable smartphones 202B Lightning Talks: Media Manipulation and the Changing Landscape of Journalism 205A When Repressive Authorities #KeepItOn. 204A Avoiding a Race to the Bottom: Bringing Human Rights to Cross-Border Data Demands 206D How to win the privacy/surveillance debate. 206A Privacy, Security, and Economic Opportunity - How Canada's Positive-Sum Digital ID Strategy will Unlock our Future 206C Transparency and accountability in a democratic transition for better access to fundamental rights: the Tunisian case 205C Countering hate or suppressing speech? The case of Israel/Palestine 200C Take Back the Net: Innovations in Tackling Online Hate and Harassment 203A Who trusts the Internet? The 2018 CIGI-Ipsos Global Survey on Internet Trust 206B