Q&A Keynote

This live question-and-answer session followed a pre-recorded keynote by Eva Galperin of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The host read questions from the chat and the Discord channel while about eleven minutes remained before the next talk.

On facial recognition, Galperin pointed to a pending United States lawsuit against Clearview AI, where the company argues that scraping social media photos into a biometric database is protected speech. EFF was expected to file an amicus brief in the case. For questions about Canada, she referred listeners to EFF's international team. On parental and family monitoring, she argued that the key line is whether the person being watched is deliberately tricked into not knowing, since that is what makes monitoring stalkerware. She suggested that monitoring a spouse usually points to a deeper problem. An attendee who ran a home lab asked how family monitoring and traffic decryption should be handled, and she treated that as a worthwhile topic. For Latin America, she described a project that tests whether public information request laws work across several governments, and said some governments have used commercially purchased spyware against political opponents. She had not seen this in Venezuela and asked for samples of any government malware found there.

Near the end, the host listed ways to get involved with EFF: summer internships for law students, remote volunteer work with a university student team on its Atlas of Surveillance project, and a technical volunteer mailing list for people with specific skills.