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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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Last updated: Version 2.3 (Updated May 15, 2018).

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Katie McInnis

Consumer Reports
Policy Counsel
Washington, DC
Websitehttps://advocacy.consumerreports.org/expert/katie-mcinnis/

Katie McInnis is a policy counsel in Consumer Reports’s Washington, DC office. Her work focuses on technology and the consumer’s right to privacy, security, control, and transparency. Before joining CR in 2016, Katie served as a Privacy & Technology Fellow at the Center for Democracy & Technology and the Enforcement Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission. She attended Bard College where studied History and Sociology and earned her law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center, where she was the Editor-in-Chief of the Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives.
Wednesday, May 16
 

09:00 EDT

RightsCon Toronto Opening Ceremonies 206A

10:30 EDT

"Free Speech, Due Process, and Why I Kicked a Nazi Site Off Our Network" a Fireside Chat with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince 204C The surveillance tool we love to carry: Cell phones searches and privacy in the evolving legal landscape 203A A Decade of Progress: Where Do We Go Next? 205B

12:00 EDT

Young, Safe and Free: Respecting Children's Online Privacy and Freedom of Expression 206B

14:30 EDT

Techquity: Ensuring the Future is Shaped by Diverse Innovators 200B

16:00 EDT

Innovation on the frontlines: how grassroots activists are utilizing technology to enhance their work 202B Breaking through echo chambers: Is the way we talk about inclusion stopping us from achieving it? 204B

17:15 EDT

Scrutinizing the Little Brothers: Corporate Surveillance and the Roles of the Citizen, Consumer, and Company 203B
 
Thursday, May 17
 

09:00 EDT

Auditing Algorithms 206B How Scientology and Porn Shaped the Internet 203A

10:30 EDT

Digital Access: Bridging the divide or bringing exclusion? 206D Fireside Chat with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman and GC Melissa Tidwell 204C

12:00 EDT

This Panel May Contain Sensitive Content: Automated Filtering and the Future of Free Expression Online 201B My Network. My Choice - An overview of feminist and antipatriarchal autonomous infrastructures, from servers to hackerspaces 204A Addressing the digital divide in Indigenous Communities in North America 201C Offline Doesn’t Exist Anymore 205B

13:20 EDT

Roleplay: Digital Participation Monopoly - An interactive Game around the right to Freedom of Speech 205C

14:30 EDT

Machine learning, human understanding: AI and access to knowledge 206B Reforming Intermediary Responsibility: Testing a Human Rights Centred Framework Beyond the Liability and Immunity Divide 201C

15:00 EDT

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

16:00 EDT

Defending minority voices on a censored internet 205B Internet of (Stranger) Things: Privacy threats of the next generation of vulnerable devices 206C
 
Friday, May 18
 

10:30 EDT

Sexuality and data: emerging tech, deepening responsibility 204B

14:30 EDT

Seen, Tweeted and Heard: It’s time to finally listen to Black women 206A Net-Neutrality but for platforms? Present and Future of Net Neutrality 206C

16:00 EDT

Sci-Fi as Strategy: Imagining and Planning for the Future Using Speculative Fiction 202B
 

My Moderators Sessions

Wednesday, May 16
 

17:15 EDT

Scrutinizing the Little Brothers: Corporate Surveillance and the Roles of the Citizen, Consumer, and Company 203B