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This is for your information and attention.

Best Regards

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From:Katitza <katitza at eff.org>
Date: Fri, 3 May 2019 00:40
Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] [OT] Invitation RightsCon-Tunez: Roundtable
discussion about biometrics
To: <africann at afrinic.net>
Cc: Jennifer Lynch <jlynch at eff.org>


Dear friends:

My colleague Jennifer Lynch, EFF Surveillance Litigation Director,[1] is
organizing a strategic roundtable at RightsCon to discuss biometric
surveillance. If you are working on the issue and also going to RightsCon,
would be great if you can join this conversation. If that's the case, could
you please let Jennifer  lynch at eff.org <jlynch at eff.org> knows directly that
you’re interested in participating?

[1]  https://www.eff.org/about/staff/jennifer-lynch
<https://www.eff.org/about/staff/jennifer-lynch>

Thanks so much! Looking forward to seeting you at RightsCon!

Katitza

*Session Title: You're Not Just a Pretty Face: Biometric Surveillance Has
Moved Beyond Face Recognition - How Do We Stop It?*

Session Description: Every day we hear about new developments in face
recognition in China, Israel, the US, and other countries - face
recognition accuracy has improved exponentially; cameras are being deployed
in more and more places; and face recognition is used for more and more
services.

However, by focusing solely on face recognition, activists, NGOs and
lawyers are missing the forest for the trees. Face recognition is now just
one of the many technologies incorporated into vast surveillance systems
and used to track people. Other technologies in these systems - like object
recognition, license plate and text recognition, voice recognition, and
gait recognition - combined with cheap cloud storage and machine learning
are allowing for tracking on a never-before-seen scale.

This session will provide a space to discuss these topics. It will bring in
experts to explain how technologies are working and how they are being
deployed around the world. It will also encourage interactivity by asking
all participants to share stories and contribute ideas for change.

Main Goal of Session: The main goal of this session will be to share
knowledge about the biometric technologies that governments are using or
planning to use to surveil and track their citizens - what are the
capabilities of these surveillance systems; which are the companies
designing the technologies; what activism has worked to limit the reach of
these systems; and how can we strategize and work together to stop them.

Translate to Post-Conference Action: This session will translate to a
post-conference action by building a community of lawyers and activists who
are working together to share knowledge about and fight biometric
surveillance. It may also develop principles for companies that are working
on these technologies.
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