12/2: Privacy and Security in New York City; a Community Learning Event

Please join us for an evening of community and learning at The Glass Room this Friday, December 2nd from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. This event will bring together individuals and organizations exploring digital privacy and security. Individuals, researchers, and other members of the digital security community will come together with public interest organizations and members of Hive NYC to discuss privacy / security and it’s impact on NYC.

A collection of lighting talks will ground the evening in ideas and actions. Lighting talks will offer insight into what individuals and organizations can do, need to consider, and how they can support one another as we delve into this ever-evolving privacy / security landscape.

This event will provide a safe space to start a conversation, spark an idea, share a learning, or meet someone new. You will also be able to experience and explore The Glass Room.

Event agenda

7:00 p.m. -- Arrive

7:10 p.m. -- Welcome

Vanessa Rhinesmith, Program Manager, Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellows

7:15 p.m. -- Keynote

Erica Gonzalez, Senior Advisor to Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and Director of Digital Strategy at the New York City Council

7:30 p.m. -- Lightning talks

Harlo Holmes, Director of Newsroom Digital Security, Freedom of the Press Foundation

Bonnie Tijerina, Researcher, Data & Society

Martin Shelton, Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Fellow, The Coral Project

Ryan Gerety, Technology Fellow, Ford Foundation

8:15 p.m. -- Community conversation and closing remarks

Meghan McDermott, Senior Lead, Learning Hub, Mozilla Foundation

Reception will directly follow the closing remarks

An assortment of horderves and drinks including beer and wine will be available

The InGenious Bar will be open from 7pm to 8pm.

The InGenious Bar is where volunteers teach visitors how to take control of their data online, understand their metadata and protect their privacy.

More about The Glass Room:

The Glass Room is designed to look like a typical “lifestyle” store (Think: Apple Store) offering the latest and greatest technology products. But instead, the ‘products’ are artworks, investigations and activist projects designed to provoke public and internal debate about personal data, privacy and security, like the “UnFitBit” for fabricating exercise data, the “Newstweek” for altering the headlines and copy readers see on news sites they access over open WiFi, and the Socio-Metric work badge, an activity tracker that monitors workplace activity, such as how often an employee sits, stands or raises their hand in meetings which is actually on the market. Each day, all day, we will be hosting a Data Detox Bar where “InGenious” volunteers (recruited through the Hive Network and TTC’s community) teach “shoppers” how to take control of their data online, understand their metadata and protect their privacy. And we’ll be hosting special events with people like artist, Ingrid Burrington and organizations like NYU and Witness in the evenings.

More about the Speakers:

Erica Gonzalez (Keynote) is a Senior Advisor to Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and Director of Digital Strategy at the New York City Council, where she leads a team that works to implement and evolve Council 2.0 –a roadmap for digital inclusion and open government. Prior to the Council, Erica was the Executive Editor of El Diario/La Prensa, where she conceptualized “Sept.11 – the Latino experience,” a ground-breaking multimedia, multiplatform project that focused on how immigration policy, gentrification and the mayoral race were affected by this devastating event. Her professional experience includes serving as Director of Communications for the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs during the Bloomberg Administration.

Harlo Holmes (Lightning Talk) is the Director of Newsroom Digital Security at Freedom of the Press Foundation. She strives to help individual journalists in various media organizations become confident and effective in securing their communications within their newsrooms, with their sources, and with the public at large. She is a media scholar, software programmer, and activist.

Dr. Martin Shelton (Lightning Talk) is a Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Fellow with the Coral Project at the New York Times, where he studies privacy and security for journalists and at-risk groups. He also maintains Tinfoil.press, a forum for discussing journalism, media activism, and information security.

Bonnie Tijerina (Lightning Talk) is a researcher at the Data & Society Research Institute, a librarian, and an entrepreneur. At Data & Society, she considers the role libraries play in supporting the emerging needs of their communities through research projects, speaking, library staff training, and writing on privacy, digital literacy, and ethics in data science. Bonnie has an MA in Library Studies from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and has worked in libraries for over 10 years. She has also founded and worked on several conferences, gatherings, and projects to help the library profession's transition to supporting the digital needs of their communities.You can reach her at bonnie@datasociety.net and @bonlth.

Ryan Gerety (Lightning Talk) is a Technology Fellow in Equitable Development at the Ford Foundation, where she explores the intersections of data, technology and spacial inequality. She has partnered with community organizers and organizations to identify and address social justice issues, including: identifying data-driven redlining and disinvestment, community-governed broadband networks, and security-aware data and communication practices. She was born and raised in New Mexico.