An all encompassing series of talks on privacy, surveillance and your digital rights. Everyone is welcome, but reserve your place to avoid disappointment.
We're proud to announce the following speakers for our opening event:
Jim Killock Director, Open Rights Group
Jim is the director of the Open Rights Group and has led campaigns against three strikes and the Digital Economy Act, the company Phorm and its plans to snoop on UK users, and against pervasive government Internet surveillance. Before joining ORG, Jim worked as External Communications Co-ordinator of the Green Party where he promoted campaigns on open source, intellectual property, digital rights and campaigned against the arms and espionage technologist Lockheed Martin's bid for the UK Census.
He'll be introducing the Open Rights Group, discussing the latest developments in the UK and talking about how you can get involved.
Paul Bernal Lecturer (IT, IP and Media Law) at UEA Law School
Paul's research at the UEA relates most directly to Human Rights and the internet, and in particular privacy rights. His recent PhD thesis looks at how deficiencies in data privacy on the internet impact upon our autonomy, and suggests that comprehensive, coherent data privacy rights can begin to address that threat.
Wendy Grossman Freelance writer (Guardian, Daily Telegraph, ZDNet)
Wendy is the author of six books including net.wars (1998, NYU Press) and From Anarchy to Power: the Net Comes of Age (2001, NUYU Press), and writes a weekly column, net.wars, that appears on Fridays at NewsWireless.net and at www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars.
Thanks so much again to everyone for coming to the first event, I really enjoyed the talks and I hope you all did too.
I agree Duncan - it's up to everyone to help grow the group. The issues we're discussing affect everyone, after all!
After the Hustings on the 12th, it would be good to have a discussion meetup to talk about issues - global, national or local - and decide what we'd like to do next. We could start campaigns or contact local groups to raise awareness, perform some fundraising, organise educational events (such as Crytpoparties http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryptoParty), have other speakers come and speak to the group, or maybe something else.
In the meantime, there's a mailing list so we can all chat and organise things (or discuss current events), you can join that here: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/groups/norwich
How else would you like to communicate? Would a group forum or discussion board help?
April 27
Unfortunately no longer able to attend this tonight, but look forward to future events.
April 25
As a pre-ambler to this, has anyone seen Terms and Conditions May Apply? 2 minute Trailer is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzyafieRcWE Full documentary is here: http://vimeo.com/ondemand/tacma OR here: http://www.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70279201
You've probably all seen it hey? ;o)
April 22
565 Techies
66 Rubyists
338 Socialisers
953 Fine People
92 Earth In-Tuners
271 Game Developers
I'm surpris ed by the level of growth I've seen since becoming an organizer, it's given me more confidence in my abilities.
— Katie, started NYC ICO
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A really promising first event, the speakers were interesting and evoking.