PLUG Meeting for Mar 11th
Attend by going to: https://lufthans.bigbluemeeting.com/b/plu-yuk-7xx
This month:
"Dawn E. Collett: The
Privacy Tax: How tracking and hacking affect"
Dawn
E. Collett: The Privacy Tax: How tracking and hacking affect
Description:
Surveillance is everywhere. From CCTV cameras on the streets to
cookies that track users around the web as they browse, the vast
majority of human activity is monitored in some form. The burden of
being watched disproportionately falls on marginalised groups, and
people with disabilities are no exception in this regard. If your
medical records contain sensitive information that you've discussed
with your doctor to get appropriate treatment, information security
suddenly becomes far more important to you. And if your only method
of communication is connected to the Internet 24/7, and thus
vulnerable to hackers, true privacy is a great deal harder to
achieve.
In this talk, we'll examine how data-driven systems view disability,
and look at how accessible technology can be exploited to reveal
information about its users. We'll break down ways that disabled
people can - and do - avoid tracking and hacking, and find out why
paying a 'privacy tax' isn't always feasible for everyone. Finally,
we'll discuss open-source software that's already reducing the
impact of surveillance and security risks on people with
disabilities, and examine what technologists can do to make the
privacy tax less necessary.
Biography:
Dawn is a DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer who started out as a
freelance developer, and realised that learning about infrastructure
and release systems would save time and money for everyone involved.
As well as accidental accessibility advocacy, Dawn is on the
organising team for the Melbourne AWS Programming and Tools meetup,
and can regularly be found sharing knowledge within the Melbourne
cloud infrastructure and DevOps communities.
Outside work, Dawn is an occasional author and kitchen alchemist.
Attend the meeting by visiting https://lufthans.bigbluemeeting.com/b/plu-yuk-7xx
at 7pm MST