Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) (not EFF) will host this event. EFF Senior Investigative Researcher Beryl Lipton will be speaking.
From the Organizers:
Around the world, shadowy firms are siphoning location data from apps, telecom networks, and rogue brokers to track people with chilling precision. Whether it’s journalists, Silicon Valley executives, or visitors to Jeffrey Epstein’s island, no one is off-limits. This panel brings together journalists who have exposed how invisible surveillance infrastructure is being used to follow people worldwide—and how little stands in the way. The journalists will explain how they uncovered these stories, how they obtained covert datasets through techniques ranging from identifying misconfigured cloud storage buckets to scouring undocumented APIs. They’ll break down how journalists can use data to expose the inner workings of the shadowy tracking systems and offer practical methods for investigating the rapidly expanding global surveillance industry.
Speakers
- Andrew Couts, WIRED
- Beryl Lipton, Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Gabriel Geiger, Lighthouse Reports
- Aaron Sankin, The Marshall Project
When:
Thursday, March 5
Time: 9:00 - 10:00 AM
Where:
JW Marriott
10 S. West St. Indianapolis, IN 46204
Cost:
Refer to website
Event Requirements:
Registration is required.
About the Speaker:
Beryl Lipton, Senior Investigative Researcher, focuses her work on government transparency, law enforcement surveillance technology, and other uses of technology by government actors. She has extensive experience using Freedom of Information laws and large-scale public records campaigns in her research.
At EFF, Beryl supports the Atlas of Surveillance, The Foilies, The Catalog of Carceral Surveillance, among other projects. She enjoys teaching others about the strengths and limitations of public records laws and discussing the potential and real harms of the surveillance state.
About IRE:
Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc. is a grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of investigative reporting. IRE was formed to create a forum in which journalists throughout the world could help each other by sharing story ideas, newsgathering techniques and news sources.
IRE provides members access to thousands of reporting tipsheets and other materials through its Resource Center and hosts conferences and specialized training across the country. Programs of IRE include the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting (NICAR), a collaboration between IRE and the Missouri School of Journalism.
This event is organized not by EFF, but by Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE).
