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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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eric_davis

Norton/Symantec
Senior Director, Product Management

I craft new products and initiatives to protect users. I'm particularly interested in users that fall in "at-risk" categories. Mini Bio: Accomplished digital security, safety, and user trust product management leader (Lifelock/Norton, Google, eBay, Netscape) capable of referring to himself in the third person. Founded and led Google's Android Security Investigations and Operations, Anti-Malvertising, and Trust & Safety teams. Google Public Policy global lead for security and ads integrity. Deep expertise in holistic consumer protection leveraging technology, policy, education, investigations, threat response, prevention/detection programs, etc. Co-author of 4 security-related patents.

09:00 EDT

RightsCon Toronto Opening Ceremonies 206A

10:30 EDT

Making the Tech USABLE -- how to gather and share user feedback from our digital security trainings 200B "Free Speech, Due Process, and Why I Kicked a Nazi Site Off Our Network" a Fireside Chat with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince 204C A Decade of Progress: Where Do We Go Next? 205B

13:20 EDT

Nick and Nikki AMA: How to make your RightsCon experience great 205C

13:30 EDT

Access Now Digital Security Clinic Access Now Lounge

14:30 EDT

When the government goes phishing. State-sponsored phishing and disinformation campaigns. 206C

16:00 EDT

Human Rights versus the Botnets 203A

17:15 EDT

Challenging our own digital security training communication and didactics 201B Crypto Wars Revisited? 206C Preserving Human Rights: Creating a Secure Ethical and Distributed Ecosystem to Archive At-Risk Mobile Media 204B

09:00 EDT

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

10:30 EDT

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 Secure UX Principles: Let's build a checklist for user security and good design 201C Fireside Chat with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman and GC Melissa Tidwell 204C

11:00 EDT

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

12:00 EDT

Who Did it? Why we need an International Cyber Attribution Organization to address nation-state attacks in cyberspace 200C Offline Doesn’t Exist Anymore 205B Human Rights Requirements of Cross-Border Data Demands 201A

13:20 EDT

The future of Digital Security education for human rights defenders - developing sustainable continuous learning approaches 206C

16:00 EDT

Coders Free Speech Rights in The Americas at Risk 201C Is it misinformation or persuasion that is the problem? 206A Internet of (Stranger) Things: Privacy threats of the next generation of vulnerable devices 206C

17:00 EDT

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

17:15 EDT

Beyond security updates: Providing relevant, accessible, and sustainable digital security advice online 201C Take Back the Net: Innovations in Tackling Online Hate and Harassment 203A

09:00 EDT

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 Understanding the role of hate speech and fake news as factors in spirals of violence in situations of conflict and armed violence 203B

10:30 EDT

Building Inclusive Community Based Digital Security Programs 200B The Online Hate Index: Using AI to Create Community-based Definitions of Hate Speech 202B

11:00 EDT

Building a Global SAFETAG Community Village Main Stage

12:00 EDT

What have we learned from studying 5 years of Internet Disruptions in Africa? 201A

14:30 EDT

How do we train digital security auditors 201B

16:00 EDT

Have We Entered a Brave New World of Global Content Takedown Orders? 206C Ethical Duties in the Digital Age: Encryption Done Dirt Cheap 206A 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

17:15 EDT

Building the anti-spyware toolbox: from reporting to lawsuits 205C

18:20 EDT

RightsCon Toronto Closing Ceremonies 206C