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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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Emory

Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
Policy Counsel

Data breaches, data security, consumer privacy! Interesting, nerdy, geeky, in-the-weeds digressions into whatever you think is neat is always appreciated.
Along with Joe Jerome @CDT will be trying to wrangle some folks for a podcast with the Internet Law and Policy Foundry. If you want to join us for a quick chat about literally anything you're doing or thinking about at RightsCon, please get in touch!

09:00 EDT

RightsCon Toronto Opening Ceremonies 206A

10:30 EDT

VR for the People: How Anyone can Build a Virtual Reality Universe 201B Bot Battles: Disinformation, Computational Propaganda and Speech Regulation – Digital Rights and Press Freedom 201C The surveillance tool we love to carry: Cell phones searches and privacy in the evolving legal landscape 203A Effective 21st Century Organizing: Learning From the Past, Building the Future 202B

11:30 EDT

Killing me softly with his vote: populism and the use digital mass communication to undermine the legitimacy of the judiciary Village Main Stage

12:00 EDT

Can GDPR protect you from AI? What GDPR can and cannot do 204C The Toronto Declaration on Discrimination in Machine Learning 206A Is Multistakeholder Internet Governance Advancing, Dying, or Evolving? 203B Digital Rights for the Persecuted Refugees: Can there be a Global Support Framework? 201B Your Car the Pirate: How cars infringe copyright and deploy data 201C Walking the Walk: Responsible Data Resources in the Shadow the GDPR Village Main Stage

12:00 EDT

Daily Stormer and The Internet Provider's Role in Mitigating Hate Speech 206C

13:30 EDT

Access Now Digital Security Clinic Access Now Lounge

14:30 EDT

Net-Neutrality but for platforms? Present and Future of Net Neutrality 206C

16:00 EDT

What keeps a security professional up at night? 206B Sci-Fi as Strategy: Imagining and Planning for the Future Using Speculative Fiction 202B

17:15 EDT

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 Building the anti-spyware toolbox: from reporting to lawsuits 205C Algorithms and Online Abuse : Perspectives from Amnesty International, Google Jigsaw and Wikimedia 200C