SXSW (not EFF) will host this event. EFF Director of Cybersecurity Eva Galperin will be speaking.
From the Organizers:
As authoritarian regimes globally expand digital control through AI-powered surveillance, censorship algorithms, and language policing, free expression faces coordinated attacks. These systems now share tools of repression across borders. In response, youth resist in whispers—through creativity and digital dexterity, they craft encrypted defiance. This panel explores how coded memes, slang, guerrilla art, and diaspora networks fuel encrypted defiance, reshaping protest through cracks in the digital firewall—online and on the ground.
When:
Wednesday, March 18
Time: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Where:
Hilton Austin Downtown
Cost:
Refer to website
Event Requirements:
Registration is required
About the Speaker:
Eva Galperin is EFF's Director of Cybersecurity. Prior to 2007, when she came to work for EFF, Eva worked in security and IT in Silicon Valley and earned degrees in Political Science and International Relations from SFSU. Her work is primarily focused on providing privacy and security for vulnerable populations around the world. To that end, she has applied the combination of her political science and technical background to everything from organizing EFF's Tor Relay Challenge, to writing privacy and security training materials (including Surveillance Self Defense and the Digital First Aid Kit), and publishing research on malware in Syria, Vietnam, Lebanon, and Kazakhstan. Since 2018, she has worked on addressing the digital privacy and security needs of survivors of domestic abuse. She is also a co-founder of the Coalition Against Stalkerware.
About SXSW:
SXSW is 850+ total conference sessions, 600+ mentor and networking events, 4,400 musicians performing over 300 live showcases, 375+ film and tv show screenings, four nights of comedy, and 450 brands activating. 7 days in Austin to connect, discover, and create what’s next.
This event is organized not by EFF, but by SXSW.
