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### Talks
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<span class="talk-logo">[![LibrePlanet 2018][lp2018-logo]][lp2017]</span>
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#### The Ethics Void (2018)
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_(Join Us March 24--25 in Cambridge, MA, USA)_
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Medicine, legal, finance, journalism, scientific research—each of these
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fields and many others have widely adopted codes of ethics governing the
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lives of their professionals. Some of these codes may even be enshrined in
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law. And this is for good reason: these are fields that have enormous
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consequences.
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Software and technology pervade not only through these fields, but through
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virtually every aspect of our lives. Yet, when compared to other fields, our
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community leaders and educators have produced an ethics void. Last year, I
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introduced numerous topics concerning #privacy, #security, and #freedom that
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raise serious ethical concerns. Join me this year as we consider some of
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those examples and others in an attempt to derive a code of ethics that
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compares to each of these other fields, and to consider how leaders and
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educators should approach ethics within education and guidance.
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<span class="talk-logo">[![LibrePlanet 2017][lp2017-logo]][lp2017]</span>
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#### The Surreptitious Assault on Privacy, Security, and Freedom (2017)
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[Video][sapsf-video] • [Slides][sapsf-slides-pdf]
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• [Slides Source Code][sapsf-src] • [Bibliography][sapsf-bib]
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Privacy, security, and personal freedom: one cannot be had without the
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others. Each of these essential rights are being surreptitiously
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assaulted; only the most technical among us even know what to look for, let
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alone how to defend ourselves. Governments, corporations, and groups of
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ill-minded individuals are spying and preying upon both users and bystanders
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with unprecedented frequency and breadth. For those of us who do understand
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these issues, it would be irresponsible not to fight for the rights of
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others and continue to bring these assaults to light.
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This talk will survey the most pressing issues of today, including topics of
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government surveillance and espionage; advertisers and data analytics; the
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Internet of Things; corporate negligence; public policy and the crypto
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wars; dangers of a non-free Web and untrusted, ephemeral software; pervasive
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monitoring; remote servers, services, and "the cloud"; modern vehicles;
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the fight against decentralization and free software; societal pressures and
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complacency with the status quo; and more.
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Attendees will walk away with a broad understanding of these topics; an
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overview of mitigations; and dozens of resources for further research and
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discussion with others. No prior knowledge of security or cryptography are
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necessary.
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<span class="talk-logo">[![LibrePlanet 2016][lp2016-logo]][lp2016]</span>
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#### Restore Online Freedom! (2016)
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[Video][rof] • [Slides][slides-pdf] • [Slides Source Code][slides-src]
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• [LibrePlanet Collection][collection]
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Imagine a world where surveillance is the default and users must opt-in to
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privacy. Imagine that your every action is logged and analyzed to learn how
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you behave, what your interests are, and what you might do next. Imagine
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that, even on your fully free operating system, proprietary software is
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automatically downloaded and run not only without your consent, but often
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without your knowledge. In this world, even free software cannot be easily
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modified, shared, or replaced. In many cases, you might not even be in
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control of your own computing---your actions and your data might be in
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control by a remote entity, and only they decide what you are and are not
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allowed to do.
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This may sound dystopian, but this is the world you're living in right
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now. The Web today is an increasingly hostile, freedom-denying place that
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propagates to nearly every aspect of the average users' lives---from their
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PCs to their phones, to their TVs and beyond. But before we can stand up
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and demand back our freedoms, we must understand what we're being robbed of,
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how it's being done, and what can (or can't) be done to stop it.
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[rof]: https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/restore-online-freedom/
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[slides-pdf]: https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/restore-online-freedom-14bf/
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[slides-src]: https://gitlab.com/mikegerwitz/online-freedom
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[collection]: https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/collection/restore-online-freedom/
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[lp2016]: https://www.libreplanet.org/2016/
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[lp2016-logo]: /images/lp-2016.png
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[sapsf-slides-pdf]: /talks/sapsf.pdf
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[sapsf-video]: https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/the-surreptitious-assault-on-privacy-security-and-freedom/
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[sapsf-src]: /projects/sapsf/
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[sapsf-bib]: /projects/sapsf/plain/sapsf.bib
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[lp2017]: https://www.libreplanet.org/2017/
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[lp2017-logo]: /images/lp-2017.png
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[lp2018]: https://www.libreplanet.org/2018/
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[lp2018-logo]: /images/lp-2018.png
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