*Join us for an exciting talk on PRISM (702), surveillance and Five Eyes with Marcy Wheeler*
*When:* 27 July (Thursday), 6:00 pm *Where:* ThoughtWorks, Level 23, 303 Collins St, Melbourne Marcy Wheeler[1] (@emptywheel), an advisor to the US Congress' Fourth Amendment Caucus and an expert on this and other US surveillance laws, will explain what the authorisation fight means for US spying. FISA Section 702 (US) authorises both PRISM (the collection of content directly from US tech companies like Google and Microsoft) and upstream surveillance (the collection, via packet sniffing, of other communications transiting the US telecommunications backbone). She will explore recent problems with upstream surveillance and what it means for NSA and the Five Eyes' packet sniffing collection more generally. Marcy will lay out what the prospects are for reform of 702 this year -- and what additional protections that might offer Australians. Marcy will also explain the greater risk of surveillance under EO 12333. And she'll lay US surveillance, generally, against the background of Donald Trump's administration and his paranoid claims that he, too, has been the target of a "tapp". *More info and optional RSVP:* https://www.meetup.com/ CryptoParty-Melbourne/events/241992220 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcy_Wheeler Kind regards, Gabor Szathmari [email protected] _______________________________________________ Free-software-melb mailing list [email protected] https://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/free-software-melb Free Software Melbourne home page: http://www.freesoftware.asn.au/melb/
