ORGcon 2014
Rapid Fire talks
Some notes from the UK’s biggest digital rights conference, this year focussing on government surveillance
Saturday, 15 November, 2014: Several hundred people interested in digital rights congregate at King’s College London’s Waterloo campus, for the Open Rights Group’s 2014 conference. I am proud to have been elected to the board of ORG in 2013, having been a founding member of the Advisory Council, so I figured I should share some of my notes from the conference.
I’ve already written about Cory Doctorow’s opening keynote, but there were many other sessions across the day. To avoid these pieces becoming too unwieldy, I’m covering individual sessions in each piece.
One of the sessions was a series of rapid-fire talks, by four different speakers, followed by a Q&A session. My notes here are of variable quality and I’ve had notes from the speakers at different times, so I’ve split these into separate write-ups:
- Two years without YouTube: the legal battle to unblock the world’s third most popular website in Pakistan — by Nani Jansen of the Media Legal Defence Initiative. [This write-up is not yet complete.]
- Our Data Ourselves?: a research project on ‘Big Social Data’ — by Mark Coté, King’s College London. [This write-up is not yet complete.]
- Justice on Drone Strikes — by Jennifer Gibson, Reprieve. [This write-up is not yet complete.]
- Electronic surveillance in America: What on Earth is going on over there? — by Cathy Gellis, US attorney.
ORGcon 2014 was generously sponsored by F-Secure and Andrews & Arnold Ltd. The Open Rights Group exists to preserve and promote your rights in the digital age; we are funded by hundreds of people like you.
