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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

Trustworthy AI whitepaper release 206B

09:00 EDT

Reporting on the 2018 Global Internet and Jurisdiction Conference 205B Lightning Talks: UX, Civic Tech & Financial Inclusion 205A Leaks from anonymous online whistleblowing platforms: ¿are they all legitimate and how to verify them? 200B Tech Demo Block #6: Collecting, documenting and verifying human rights data 200A Scaling solutions for CSO's digital security using security protocols with minimum infrastructure 201A Trainers Unite: Experience Exchange and Skill Building of Digital Security Trainers 204A How does the Kremlin manipulate the Russian IT industry to exert control over the internet 203A Security, digital rights, and location information - making maps that protect, not harm 206B The Big Open: How do we build openness back into the web? 206A Countering Media Manipulation: Linking Research and Action 206D Litigating Internet Shutdowns in Africa: Identifying Blurred Lines and Roadmaps 205C OTR: Donor Q&A 201B The elephant in the room: the funding dimension of capacity development 201C What we don’t know about government intelligence sharing – Perspectives from the Global North and South 206C How whistleblowing is changing the world 202B Don't say you don't know. Learn concrete tools to provide meaningful help to victims of non-consensual pornography on the internet from the Global South 204B Free Speech Is Not Blasphemy 204C Understanding the role of hate speech and fake news as factors in spirals of violence in situations of conflict and armed violence 203B

09:30 EDT

Lawbitrage: developments in cross-border search engine regulation Village Main Stage

10:30 EDT

Can privacy solve fake news? Village Main Stage A Canadian position on AI and Human Rights: towards policies that promote and protect human rights 201C Digital sovereignty in Russia. 5 years after ITU 203B GDPR is Coming (after WHOIS) 206C Massive audience engagement in human rights and humanitarian reporting. 204A A technologist, a policy wonk, and an Internet freedom advocate walk into a bar: Assessing how Internet Communities build bridges for human rights. 200A Building Inclusive Community Based Digital Security Programs 200B Demystifying Organization Security Methodology 201A Lightning Talks: Testimony, Identity & Livelihood: Steps Toward Justice 205A The Widening Digital Divide 201B Policing the Internet, or Promoting Digital Rights: World Intermediary Liability Developments 2018 205B The Rules Of Cyberwarfare: Connecting A Tradition of Just War, Attribution, and Modern Cyberoffensives 204C Do No Harm? The Influence and Impact of Automated Bias in mHealth Apps 200C Youth: The Vanguardians of Information 206B Moving From Funding Centric to Cause Centric 206D Data literacy for humanitarian and human rights workers in conflict and armed violence 203A My First Transparency Report 206A Sexuality and data: emerging tech, deepening responsibility 204B The Online Hate Index: Using AI to Create Community-based Definitions of Hate Speech 202B Biometrics in governance: next big thing or ticking time-bomb? 205C

11:00 EDT

Building a Global SAFETAG Community Village Main Stage

11:30 EDT

Creating a privacy and security certification and testing tool Village Main Stage

12:00 EDT

AI'll Be Back: Legal and Ethical Implications With Everyday Uses of Artificial Intelligence Village Main Stage The Robot Wars: Securing Your Drones, Robo-Butlers, and Sexbots from Prying Eyes. 203B Live Recording: Listen up! Podcasting your rights 206A Soft G, hard G, and zhaif: Educational GIF workshop 205B Observing tech in Elections 203A Archer: 25 UC Berkeley engineers present six tech solutions for human rights and corruption investigators 200A Identifying Abusive Behaviour 204A Recasting a Wider Net: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Circumvention During Predicted Censorship Events 202B The Canary at the Back Door 204C Abortion access in restricted settings: Tech challenges and opportunities 206B Mapping Palestine: a hands-on OpenStreetMap Mapathon 200B Can global digital rights survive Europe's Copyright Directive? 206D What have we learned from studying 5 years of Internet Disruptions in Africa? 201A Youth Autonomy and Surveillance Culture: A Rights-based approach 204B Putting Users First: The Responsibility of Tech SMEs to Respect Human Rights 200C Tactics for advancing digital rights in developing economies and challenging political contexts: an RDR perspective 201C Daily Stormer and The Internet Provider's Role in Mitigating Hate Speech 206C Lightning Talks: Ending Hate Speech & Online Violence 205A Tech Against Terrorism - Respecting human rights in tackling terrorist exploitation of the internet 201B Protecting Digital Rights at the City Level: A Unified Agenda 205C

13:20 EDT

Women, gender non conforming, and trans folks of Color meet up! 206A Opening the digital tool-box to create a powerful and connected free expression ecosphere 204A Global Best Practice For Non Profits for the Future 201A Proceeding with Caution: Doing good work in difficult places 205C Resilience and resistance in closing space countries -- what can the online and offline communities do together? 205B

13:30 EDT

Access Now Digital Security Clinic Access Now Lounge

14:30 EDT

Big Data, Big Goals, Big Ideas: How Collaboration can Accelerate the SDGs for Girls and Women Village Main Stage Algorithmic transparency: why is it important and how can it be achieved? 203B We can do it! Empathic, citizen-led consensus-building at scale: A workshop for aspiring g0v nobodies 204A Shifting the Script: Workshopping the Workshop 200B Tech Demo Block #5: The fight against internet censorship and surveillance 200A How do we train digital security auditors 201B Frontiers of feminist issues online: understanding the tensions and opportunities at the intersection of innovation, digital rights and security 203A Seen, Tweeted and Heard: It’s time to finally listen to Black women 206A Engineering Secure Products, Soup to Nuts 204B Creating community capacity to respond to smart city initiatives to support data justice and human rights in a connected space 205C Community Infrastructure for Activists: Security and Shut-down Circumvention 200C Net-Neutrality but for platforms? Present and Future of Net Neutrality 206C Could new laws designed to protect us online be harming activism and innovation? 204C Bay Area tech companies and governments: Discovering the art of conversation. 201A Press Conference: Meet the powerful new coalition fighting for transparency and accountability from Facebook in non-Western markets 206D Workers Data Rights - Making sure the human remains in human resources 202B (En)countering hate speech: Let's diversify our solutions 205B Lightning Talks: Transformative Technology in a Changing Global Economy 205A The Internet Giants: concentration in the Internet layers and its impacts to freedom of expression and other human rights 206B

15:00 EDT

Sex, Lies, and Red Tape: The political interest in regulating Internet platforms, and what it means for online speech and democracy Village Main Stage

15:30 EDT

The role of fake news in fueling conflict in Syria Village Main Stage

16:00 EDT

Have We Entered a Brave New World of Global Content Takedown Orders? 206C Another Brick in the Firewall: China’s growing threat to local, regional, and global civil society 205C Global Perspectives on Fighting Social Media Censorship 200B Title III for Hacking? Workshopping Appropriate Limits on Government Exploitation 205B What keeps a security professional up at night? 206B Documenting Digital Evidence of Sexual Violence & Disrupting Data Flow: MediCapt in Kenya 204A Lightning Talks: Inventions, Innovations and Free Trade 205A From clickbait to misinformation: How can we change the way we measure, value and monetize content online? 204C How to effectively combat online manipulation and disinformation? 203A The Fight Against the Institutional Datafication of Social Life: Challenges and Tactics 203B “Quien Defiende Tus Datos: The latest on holding telecoms accountable with Rating Report throughout Latin American and Spain.” 200A Business case for corporate activism in a fractured world: can it help save civic freedoms? 204B Sci-Fi as Strategy: Imagining and Planning for the Future Using Speculative Fiction 202B Towards a inclusive, sustainable, trustworthy digital future 200C What could diplomats do better to reinforce civic space? 201B Ethical Duties in the Digital Age: Encryption Done Dirt Cheap 206A

17:15 EDT

Lightning Talks: Important issues facing the future 205A Artificial Intelligence: Governance and Inclusion 201B Exploring the future of civic tech as part of government and global civil society 203B Totem Project - Hands-on 200B Information controls in Latin America: censorship in different layers and nuances 204A Has Social Media Destroyed our Information Diets and Politics? 203A Big Brother is Really Watching: Digital Surveillance & Gender-based Violence 206D Covert Entry: Why Your Data is More at Risk from Police than APT 204B Online Anonymity: Key Lessons & Emerging Threats 200A Surveillance on Marginalized Communities: Perspectives and Solidarity 201C Building the anti-spyware toolbox: from reporting to lawsuits 205C Algorithms and Online Abuse : Perspectives from Amnesty International, Google Jigsaw and Wikimedia 200C

18:20 EDT

RightsCon Toronto Closing Ceremonies 206C