Despite these successes, we're faced with well-funded adversaries that have billions of dollars to spend on censorship mechanisms, and the arms race is ongoing.

Many people, groups, and organizations are doing innovative work to study, measure, and fight back against internet censorship-and they are helping millions of people connect more regularly and safely to the internet. From network level blocking to nation-wide internet blackouts, governments and private companies have powerful tools to restrict information and hault connection between people. Join Ali Gharavi, Senior Programme Specialist, Swedish International Development Agency Nadya Tolokonnika, artist, activist, and founding member of Pussy Riot and Nicholas Merrill, founder and Executive Director, the Calyx Institute to discuss their experiences with surveillance and why fighting for privacy is a key part of ensuring human rights for all.Ĭindy Cohn, Executive Director of EFF, will join us as our host and moderator.Įvery year, internet censorship increases globally. In this edition of PrivChat, we're bringing together a group of panelists with direct experience as activists or working with activist groups who will talk about their experiences with surveillance and privacy:

However, governments, corporations, and other powerful entities routinely block us from exercising our right to privacy through surveillance, monitoring, and tracking.Īctivists, human rights defenders, minorities and people protesting for change are often the targets of this surveillance, and thus have a unique perspective on the critical importance of privacy and anonymity online.

The United Nations even codified privacy as a human right in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. Privacy is about protecting what makes us humans: our day-to-day behavior, our personality, our fears, our relationships, and our vulnerabilities.

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