Reminder: this is tomorrow! -Esther On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 2:01 PM Esther Jang <infra...@cs.washington.edu> wrote:
> Hi Change community, > > Next *Wed 9/4 3:30pm at UW CSE*, students from the ICTD and Security & > Privacy Labs will jointly be hosting a talk by local privacy activist > Cynthia Spiess. She'll be talking about how to get involved in the City of > Seattle's process for publicly reviewing surveillance technologies used by > the city, the Seattle Surveillance Ordinance. > > *Talk Title: "Seattle Surveillance Ordinance: Information for Tech > Activists"* > *When: Wednesday 9/4, 3:30-5 pm* > *Where: Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science and Engineering, Gates > Commons (rm CSE 691)* > > > *Speaker Bio:*Cynthia Spiess has previously worked at Adobe as a Senior > Security Researcher for the Adobe Secure Software Engineering Team (ASSET). > Prior to that, she worked at Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a Security > Engineer for the AWS AppSec team; and earlier as a Developer Support > Engineer for AWS Premium Support. She has spoken at DefendCon 2017 and iSec > (now NCC) Open Forum Seattle. Her work experience covers front-end and > back-end web stacks (GUIs and APIs), both traditional and more modern > (NoSQL DBs, docker/Mesos), SecOps/IR, and (unsurprisingly) cloud security. > > > *Talk Summary:*The City of Seattle is in the midst of undertaking > important steps that impact the privacy (and security in some cases) of all > persons living, working, and traveling in Seattle for likely many years to > come. This work is partially underway, with different surveillance > technologies in different stages of the process. This presentation will > cover what the Seattle Surveillance Ordinance is & the overall process > end-to-end; what stage we’re at; noteworthy technical findings thus far; > what’s next; and how to contribute your knowledge. The overall situation is > one which is near starving for technical contributions and voice, so the > hope is that this presentation is more than purely informational and > instead results in informed participation (in any level or capacity). > > Here's a FB event <https://www.facebook.com/events/376419182991263/> for > sharing. Please come if you can make it, and invite anyone who you think > would be interested! > > Thanks, > -Esther >
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