Do you know what to do if you’re subjected to a search or arrest at a protest? Join EFF for a livestream discussion about how to protect your electronic devices and digital assets before, during, and after a demonstration. Learn how you can avoid confiscation or forced deletion of media, and keep your movements and associations private with our panel featuring EFF Senior Staff Technologist Cooper Quintin, EFF Security and Privacy Activist Thorin Klosowski, EFF Director of Cybersecurity Eva Galperin, and Greenpeace International Information Security Capacity Manager Gillo Cutrupi.
How to Protest with Privacy in Mind
Thursday, October 17th
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific - Check Local Time
This event is LIVE and FREE!
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Recording
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About the Speakers
Cooper Quintin
Cooper Quintin is a security researcher and senior public interest technologist with the EFF Threat Lab. He has worked on projects including Privacy Badger, Canary Watch, and analysis of state sponsored malware campaigns such as Dark Caracal. Cooper has given talks about security research at prestigious security conferences including Black Hat, DEFCON, Enigma Conference, and ReCon about issues ranging from IMSI Catcher detection to fem tech privacy issues to newly discovered APTs. He has also been published or quoted in publications including: The New York Times, Reuters, NPR, CNN, and Al Jazeera. Cooper has given security trainings for activists, non profit workers, and vulnerable populations around the world. He previously worked building websites for nonprofits, including Greenpeace, Adbusters, and the Chelsea Manning Support Network.
Thorin Klosowski
Thorin is the Security and Privacy Activist at EFF, where he focuses on providing practical advice to protecting online security, including handling much of Surveillance Self-Defense. Before joining EFF, Thorin covered privacy and security for Wirecutter and occasionally at The New York Times, writing the bulk of Wirecutter's security how-tos, explainers, and guides.
Gillo Cutrupi (Greenpeace)
Gillo has coached NGOs and activists in many regions for more than 15 years on several security and privacy projects. He is currently the Information Security Capacity Manager for the Operations department in Greenpeace International. He also provides informational security support and trainings to a number of local and regional advocacy groups as well as larger-sized organizations and NGOs worldwide. He is based in Brussels.
Lauren Regan (The Civil Liberties Defense Center)
Lauren Regan has been a movement lawyer for over 27 years and is the founder and director of litigation and advocacy at the Civil Liberties Defense Center. CLDC defends environmental and social justice activists around the country who are facing State repression in state and federal criminal prosecutions, SLAPP suits (corporations suing activists for harassment purposes), federal civil rights actions against police and government surveillance of activists, grand jury resistance and more. Regan's unique work serves to highlight and strengthen the necessity for cross-movement organizing to save the planet and reduce the suffering of all living things. She currently provides legal and strategic organizing assistance to climate and social justice movements around the country, including Know Your Rights & Risks, legal observer, cop watch and many other trainings.
Eva Galperin
Eva Galperin is EFF's Director of Cybersecurity. Prior to 2007, when she came to work for EFF, Eva worked in security and IT in Silicon Valley and earned degrees in Political Science and International Relations from SFSU. Her work is primarily focused on providing privacy and security for vulnerable populations around the world. To that end, she has applied the combination of her political science and technical background to everything from organizing EFF's Tor Relay Challenge, to writing privacy and security training materials (including Surveillance Self Defense and the Digital First Aid Kit), and publishing research on malware in Syria, Vietnam, Lebanon, and Kazakhstan. Since 2018, she has worked on addressing the digital privacy and security needs of survivors or domestic abuse. She is also a co-founder of the Coalition Against Stalkerware.
