Civic hacknight #135 with Andrew Hilts

Presenter: Andrew Hilts from Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, UofT

https://citizenlab.ca/

Presenting: Andrew Hilts, Senior Researcher & Developer at UofT’s Citizen Lab, will be speaking on consumer personal data access in Canada following the release of "Approaching Access", a report that sheds light on what you can learn by filing data access requests.

Andrew will be highlighting Access My Info, a web application developed by the Citizen Lab for the public to easily file data access requests from three areas of interest: telecommunications, dating applications, and fitness trackers.

https://accessmyinfo.org

*** BIOGRAPHY

Andrew Hilts is a Senior Researcher and Developer at the Citizen Lab, University of Toronto. Andrew has published research looking at the privacy and security of fitness tracking, the web advertising ecosystem, and consumer data privacy rights.

*** SOCIAL MEDIA CHEAT CODES

@AndrewCHilts @CitizenLab @open_effect @MunkSchool

*** THIS MONTH'S VENUE SPONSOR:

TWG

TWG's mission is to help build the most innovative enterprises and startups in the world, and believe software is the most powerful way to do that.

https://twg.io/

Check-in details: Elevators will be looked. If someone is not present to take you up, then please send a message to "doorbell" at 780-652-2649 (780-6LAB-6IX), and the organizers will get a notification.

Attendees are requested to sign-in.

Accessibility: The venue is fully accessible.

*** ABOUT US:

Our weekly civic tech hacknights bring together designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, and all other Torontonians who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable and equitable, through design, tech, and data. (Coders are welcome, but you don’t have to be a coder to contribute!) Come and be part of it!

Agenda:

6:30-7: Welcome and intros
7-7:30: Presentation and Q&A/discussion
7:30-9: Breakout groups (make something!)

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Hope to see you Tuesday!