Powerful surveillance software for everyday use tune in our calls, text messages, real-time GPS location or encrypted messaging apps like WhatsApp. These capabilities can afford dramatic powers and control over an individual’s everyday life. Surveillance apps for private purposes are routinely linked to identity theft, physical injuries, sexual harassment, extortion and child abuse, among others. Some are marketed as ways for employers to monitor the movements of their workers, or for parents to check electronically on the whereabouts of their children. Others promise to help you to reveal infidelity. However, the same malicious software with an aim to monitor and control a targeted person is being also sold to the governments.

Where do the tech community, the police, and the policymakers stand on the issue of deployment of surveillance apps for private purposes?

How are such products used by the governments?

Is the usage of such software legal?

And, lastly, how do you safeguard yourself against an attack?

About the Speaker

The speaker at this LogicLounge, Eva Galperin is the director of cybersecurity at Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. Eva Galperin has worked in security and IT in Silicon Valley and earned degrees in Political Science and International Relations. 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 writing privacy and security training materials and publishing research on malware in Syria, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, and Lebanon.

About the LogicLounge

After Oxford and Vienna, the upcoming public talk in New York on July 15, is already the 15th in the series of LogicLounges which feature discussions between the public and the eminent scientists in the fields of logic, philosophy, mathematics, computer science, and artificial intelligence.

About the Organizers

The LogicLounge with Eva Galperin is once again hosted by the 31st International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (CAV 2019) and organized by Daniel Schwartz-Narbonne, AWS, in collaboration with the Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms at TU Wien (VCLA).

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