ACLU 2.0: Demand Your dotRights

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The ACLU, emerging technology, and business leaders may sound like the setup of a bad joke, but it’s not. Join us to learn more about the ACLU of Northern California’s soon-to-be-announced “Demand Your dotRights” campaign linking online privacy and government surveillance. We will focus in particular on the role that companies play in establishing and safeguarding the privacy and free speech rights of their users – and how companies can benefit from having strong policies that favor these rights, as described in our recent publication, “Privacy and Free Speech: It’s Good for Business”

Who: Chris Conley, ACLU of Northern California
When: 6:00 pm, Tuesday August 4th, 2009
Where: StartPad offices -- 811 First Avenue, Suite 480, Seattle, WA 98104
Cost: Free! (Pizza and drinks will be served)

About the Presenter: Chris Conley is the Technology & Civil Liberties Fellow at the ACLU of Northern California where he focuses on launching the organization’s new online privacy campaign, “Demand Your dotRights.” He started out on the technology side, earning a B.S.E. summa cum laude in Electrical Engineering from The University of Michigan and a S.M. in Computer Science from M.I.T., and spending several years as a software developer and consultant. He later received his J.D. cum laude in 2007 from Harvard Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology. Prior to joining the ACLU in September 2008, he was a Resident Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, where he studied international Internet censorship and surveillance.

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