[liberationtech] CFP: 2015 LACUNY Institute: Privacy and Surveillance

[ROBERT.FARRELL]

Deadline Extended:



Call for Proposals for the LACUNY Institute

Privacy and Surveillance: Library Advocacy for the 21st Century

John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York

May 8, 2015



Submission Deadline: January 23, 2015

Keynote Speaker: Rainey Reitman (Activism Director, Electronic Frontier 
Foundation; Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder, Freedom of the Press 
Foundation)



Historically, librarians have defended patron privacy on the grounds that it is 
crucial to free speech, freedom of thought, and equal access to information. 
These core values, which occasionally have led librarians to confrontation with 
law enforcement, are embedded in our professional ethics. The American Library 
Association’s Privacy Toolkit demarcates a broad territory for the profession 
to safeguard: “In libraries, the right to privacy is the right to open inquiry 
without having the subject of one’s interest examined or scrutinized by others” 
(Privacy and Confidentiality: Library Core 
Values).

Nevertheless, patron data can now be scrutinized not just by FBI agents with 
secret warrants, but also by database and e-book vendors, social media 
companies, and Internet marketers. The digital nature of today’s information 
sources has allowed for mass collection of patron data--as demonstrated by the 
NSA’s covert collection of telephone and Internet records. Our profession has 
been slow to respond. In this new technological and political landscape, which 
privacy violations pose a threat to our mission of promoting free speech and 
free thought? How can librarians convince those in power that patron privacy is 
crucial to our institutions and our communities? Can we negotiate contracts 
with vendors that protect reader privacy? How should we talk to our students 
about these issues, and what can we learn from them about the future of privacy?

The LACUNY Institute seeks proposals that explore all aspects of privacy in 
libraries, with a special emphasis on academic settings. We welcome proposals 
from those inside and outside the profession. This year, we will feature two 
kinds of presentations:



Paper Presentations (20 minutes)

The Institute will include several moderated panel presentations, which may be 
historical, theoretical, legal, or practical in nature. Please include time for 
questions and discussion.



A few examples include:

·Library Code of Ethics and its relevance today

·Current laws and precedents relating to privacy

·The information economy and user data

·Predictive analytics

·Assessment and student privacy

·The Dark Web



Lightning Presentations (10 minutes)

At the close of the Institute, attendees will disperse to a number of 
simultaneous lightning presentations. These should be highly practical in 
nature and focused on a single, specific issue. The goal is to provide 
attendees with concrete steps for action. Please build in substantial time for 
questions and discussion, and plan to bring handouts or other takeaways.



A few examples include:

·Lesson plans for teaching students about privacy

·How to read vendor contracts and negotiate for privacy rights

·Privacy-protecting alternatives to common tools and websites (e.g., 
ownCloud, DuckDuckGo)

·Setting up a Tor relay

·Proven steps for promoting privacy initiatives among faculty and 
administrators



Please submit proposals for paper and lightning presentations, including a 
300-500 word abstract, to 
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__lacuny.org_institute-2Dcall-2Dfor-2Dproposals_&d=AwIF-g&c=uxRm7bTqKzXs8e5WpHvdhQ&r=tv24gQkm79ciTeR-BTU64rMEInHzGYh7OEief5xgop6sBJ8ipv6p0DHUBjh58Azn&m=YQrP9irYqDTfMlZw-VNHX6meLuuWjEQ7d5m6G2cCiHc&s=7aDjuuAj5Du2ryyrweX9W3o3q5UVEpeESl_q9vtKXAE&e=
 

 byJanuary 23, 2015.
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Re: [liberationtech] Afrileaks

[Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists]

On 1/14/15 11:51 AM, Marcin de Kaminski wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> What do you make of Afrileaks?
>
> http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/13/wikileaks-for-africa-introducing-afrileaks
>
> https://afrileaks.org/

Yo, as part of the Hermes Center (GlobaLeaks) that's the technology
partner of AfriLeaks, would like provide a bit of general context of
that kind of initiatives.

GlobaLeaks software is a Whistleblowing Framework being used for
different Whistleblowing initiatives in different sectors and context
such as Journalism, Activism, Anticorruption, Public Agencies control,
Corporate compliance with the goal to be easy to install, configure,
customize, deploy for non-tech people.
More info on https://globaleaks.org + list of globaleaks adopters on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlobaLeaks#Implementations .

PubLeaks it's an initiative based on GlobaLeaks that has been launched
in September 2013 in the Netherlands where multiple media joined as a
consortium, enabling Sources to send out tip-off by deciding "to who
send the information" by stimulating a peculiar mix of collaboration and
competition.
More info on http://publeaks.nl (it's in dutch)

That's what we call "Multi Stakeholder Whistleblowing Initiatives" (Ie:
Publeaks-like).

We partnered with Hivos Foundation and Free Press Unlimited to work on
pushing more Publeaks-like projects where multiple civil society players
(ie: small media or investigative journalism groups) join together to
provide a safe way for concerned citizens to report malpractices.

The group of NGOs supported ANCIR in organizing, developing and
deploying the AfriLeaks project, that's a very challenging Pan-African
multi-stakeholder Whistleblowing initiative, plenty of potential.

In parallel we are supporting also other organizations that have done
something similar in other area (such as the Spanish
http://www.filtrala.org) or that are preparing similar multi-stakeholder
projects in other areas (such as South America and East Europe) and
other sectors (such as Anti-Corruption).

Each projects have it's own challenge in terms of complexity, capability
building, threat modelling, risks, training, logistics and costs.

It would be interesting to see some kind of funding schema to support
NGOs and activists group willing to setup Whistleblowing initiatives for
Public Interests purposes, in order to give them all the operational and
financial support that they need to be successful in leveraging
"Whistleblowing solicitation" as a transparency-tool.

It's plenty of *valuable* organization that want to setup Whistleblowing
initiatives for public interests purposes, but often lacks proper
funding and/or the proper organizational capacity.

I think that we would see many country-based PubLeaks-like initiatives
if there would the right approach to push that kind of initiative.

A collaborative leak-site in each country of the world, would be a nice
target for 2017? :-)

-- 
Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) @fpietrosanti
HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights
http://logioshermes.org - https://globaleaks.org - https://tor2web.org - 
https://ahmia.fi

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[liberationtech] Afrileaks

[Marcin de Kaminski]

Dear all,

What do you make of Afrileaks?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/13/wikileaks-for-africa-introducing-afrileaks
https://afrileaks.org/

---
Marcin de Kaminski
Policy specialist - Freedom of expression/ICT | www.sida.se
Twitter: @dekaminski
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