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RightsCon Toronto 2018

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Julian Sanchez

Cato Institute
Senior Fellow

Julian Sanchez is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and studies issues at the busy intersection of technology, privacy, and civil liberties, with a particular focus on national security and intelligence surveillance. Before joining Cato, Sanchez served as the Washington editor for Ars Technica, where he covered surveillance, intellectual property, and telecom policy. He has also worked as a writer for The Economist’s blog Democracy in America and as an editor for Reason magazine, where he remains a contributing editor.

Sanchez is a founding editor of the policy blog Just Security, and has written on privacy and technology for a wide array of national publications, ranging from the National Review to The Nation.

10:30 EDT

The surveillance tool we love to carry: Cell phones searches and privacy in the evolving legal landscape 203A

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

12:30 EDT

Accountability in times of digital governance: towards a global citizen charter Village Main Stage

14:30 EDT

Some Like it Bot: Can AI Strengthen Global Democracy? 204B Unravelling the cloak of secrecy: Oversight and accountability of intelligence 203B

16:00 EDT

State Hacking and Crypto Wars 2.0 206C

17:15 EDT

Gendering Surveillance: From the Point of View of Marginalised Groups 206D

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

Leveraging Technology to Address Misinformation 205B

10:00 EDT

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

10:30 EDT

The global state of data protection 205C Shooting the messenger: the rise of intermediary liability around the world 204B

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

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 10 days before the EU GDPR becomes applicable: are you ready? 204C

15:00 EDT

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

16:00 EDT

Building resilience: Creative responses to internet censorship + shutdowns 200A Internet of (Stranger) Things: Privacy threats of the next generation of vulnerable devices 206C

17:15 EDT

Can Rights Be Enforced by Crypto Protocols? 201B How to win the privacy/surveillance debate. 206A

08:00 EDT

Trustworthy AI whitepaper release 206B

09:00 EDT

How does the Kremlin manipulate the Russian IT industry to exert control over the internet 203A What we don’t know about government intelligence sharing – Perspectives from the Global North and South 206C

10:30 EDT

The Rules Of Cyberwarfare: Connecting A Tradition of Just War, Attribution, and Modern Cyberoffensives 204C

12:00 EDT

The Robot Wars: Securing Your Drones, Robo-Butlers, and Sexbots from Prying Eyes. 203B

14:30 EDT

Engineering Secure Products, Soup to Nuts 204B

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

Surveillance on Marginalized Communities: Perspectives and Solidarity 201C

18:20 EDT

RightsCon Toronto Closing Ceremonies 206C