Harlo Holmes: Journalism, Activism, and the Surveillance State
@ Make City (ICNC)
320 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Thursday, December 13th, from 7PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, December 13th
It seems impossible to communicate safely and securely online. Data hungry corporations and governments siphoning our internet traffic, collecting our searches, and mining our metadata. The same companies that build innovative tools for communication have declared privacy dead. But fear not! People like Harlo Holmes, Director of Newsroom Digital Security at Freedom of the Press Foundation, are working to educate folks how to be confident and effective in securing their communications. Harlo is a media scholar, software programmer, and activist; she contributes to the open source mobile security collective The Guardian Project; and is a founding member of Deep Lab, a collaborative group of cyberfeminists addressing issues such as privacy, surveillance, code and art. Join us as we get meta about data (and metadata) and discuss why privacy matters, even when folks say: “I’ve got nothing to hide.”
Doors open at 6:30 PM
Conversation begins at 7:00 PM
Harlo Holmes 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; and contributes to the open source mobile security collective The Guardian Project. She helps journalists worldwide use tools to preserve their privacy and do their jobs better; is a founding member of Deep Lab, a collaborative group of cyberfeminist researchers, artists, writers, engineers, and more addressing issues such as privacy, surveillance, code and art; and was a Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Fellow in 2014.
Data Rules Everything Around Me (D.R.E.A.M.) is a FREE & OPEN conversation series facilitated by Nick Briz & Jon Satrom. Artists, writers, developers, and other cultural producers discuss their research and perspectives on the data that fuels the systems that run our world.
This event is presented by Mozilla in partnership with Netizen. Thank you to Make City for hosting this event.
The venue is wheelchair accessible. If you have accessibility questions, email hi@netizen.org.
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