Big Brother on the Big Screen: Fact/Fiction?

Architecture and Background

Nicole Ozer & Kevin Bankston - Big Brother on the Big Screen: Fact/Fiction? Can the NSA really do that? Um, yes.

Vulnerability Analysis

Join us at the movies to take a close look at how government surveillance has caught up with the fables dreamed up for Hollywood flicks- from old favorites like Brazil to newer additions like Bourne and Dark Knight. Jaunty tin foil hats and popcorn will be provided! Nicole Ozer directs the Technology and Civil Liberties Program at the ACLU of Northern California and spearheads the organization's new online privacy campaign- Demand Your dotRights (www.dotrights.org).

Exploitation and Demonstrations

Before joining the ACLU, Nicole was an intellectual property attorney at Morrison & Foerster LLP and worked on diverse civil liberties technology projects with the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley. Nicole graduated from Amherst College and earned her J.D. with a Certificate in Law and Technology from UC Berkeley.

Remediation and Defensive Strategies

Nicole was recognized by San Jose Magazine in 2001 for being one of 20 ìWomen Making a Markî in Silicon Valley. Kevin Bankston is a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in free speech and privacy law. Before joining EFF, Kevin was the Justice William J. Brennan First Amendment Fellow for the American Civil Liberties Union in New York City. Kevin received his J.D. in 2001 from the University of Southern California Law Center, and received his undergraduate degree from the University of Texas in Austin.