<div dir="auto">Listers<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This is for your information and attention.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best Regards</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From:<strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Katitza</strong> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:katitza@eff.org">katitza@eff.org</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, 3 May 2019 00:40<br>Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] [OT] Invitation RightsCon-Tunez: Roundtable discussion about biometrics<br>To: <<a href="mailto:africann@afrinic.net">africann@afrinic.net</a>><br>Cc: Jennifer Lynch <<a href="mailto:jlynch@eff.org">jlynch@eff.org</a>><br></div><br><br>
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<div>Dear friends:<br>
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<div>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 <a class="m_5185792518422642925moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jlynch@eff.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"> lynch@eff.org</a> knows directly
that you’re interested in participating?<br>
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<div><a href="https://www.eff.org/about/staff/jennifer-lynch" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">[1]
https://www.eff.org/about/staff/jennifer-lynch</a><br>
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<div>Thanks so much! Looking forward to seeting you at
RightsCon!</div>
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<div>Katitza</div>
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<b>Session Title: You're Not Just a Pretty Face: Biometric
Surveillance Has Moved Beyond Face Recognition - How Do We Stop
It?</b><br>
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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. <br>
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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. <br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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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