Saturday 15th November
ORGCon is the UK's biggest digital rights conference. Each year, high profile writers, speakers and activists give their insights into the big issues affecting civil liberties and the Internet.
The focus of this year’s conference is government surveillance and how we can make it a key issue for voters in the run up to the General Election 2015.
There’ll be talks, debates and workshops all day, starting off with a keynote speech from Cory Doctorow.
The following programme may be subject to change.
| Lecture Theatre | Room G73 | Room G79 | |
| 09.30 | Registration | ||
| 10.00 -10.50 | Welcome and opening keynote from author and digital rights activist extraordinaire, Cory Doctorow |
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| 11.00 -11.50 |
What is Big Tech doing about mass surveillance? A discussion on how corporates deal with surveillance requests, and how they have responded to the NSA and GCHQ revelations. Professor Ian Brown, Oxford University. Tom Gaffney, , F-Secure. |
Surveillance, Whistleblowing and the Media To what extent is surveillance being used to intercept journalists' sources? How do we protect whistleblowers? And what is the effect on investigative journalism and free speech? Answering these questions are: Jodie Ginsberg, Chief Executive of Index on Censorship, Rachel Oldroyd from the |
Blocked! How filters censor the Internet ORG's Blocked project has helped to expose the censorship caused by filters that aim to prevent children from seeing adult content. ORG's Project Manager, Richard King will reveal the findings of our Blocked project and talk about why filters are the wrong approach to safety on the internet.
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| 12.00 - 12.50 |
Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Fear? Survivors of surveillance and experts on privacy will be speaking about their experiences and perspectives on the concept of 'Nothing to hide, Nothing to fear'. Erin Saltman, Quilliam Foundation Merrick Badger Chair: Milena Popova, ORG Director |
Data Retention Takedown Digital Rights Ireland, a small campaign group of volunteers, successfully won a ruling at the European Court of Justice, which declared that the Data Retention Directive was invalid. This had a major impact on the legal basis for data retention. Their solicitor in the case, Simon McGarr, explains how they did it. |
TTIP on the horizon Why this global treaty is a huge threat to democracy and our privacy in the EU. Nick Dearden, World Development Movement |
| 13.00 -14.00 |
Lunch Fringe events: If you would like to organise a meeting or party gathering during lunch please get in touch. Events organised so far: Come and join Claude Moraes to start a conversation on campaigning for digital rights in the Labour Party and Trade Unions. |
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| 14.00 -14.50 |
Question Time Party representatives answer your questions on digital rights policy ahead of the 2015 election. With Julian Huppert MP, Claude Moraes MEP, Natalie Bennett, Green Party Leader |
Privacy not Prism: Intervening for your rights ORG's Legal Director Elizabeth Knight and Dan Carey, our solicitor in the Privacy Not Prism case will be explain why and how we are challenging government surveillance at the European Court of Human Rights. |
What to do about a problem like 'Revenge Porn'? Professor Lilian Edwards, University of Strathclyde |
| 14.50-15.10 | Break | ||
| 15.10 - 16.00 |
Rapid Fire talks Two years without YouTube: the legal battle to unblock the world's 3rd most popular website in Pakistan: Nani Jansen, Media Legal Defence Initiative. Our Data Ourselves? A research project on ‘Big Social Data': Mark Coté, King’s College London Justice on Drone Strikes: Jennifer Gibson, Reprieve Electronic surveillance in America – what on Earth is going on over there? Cathy Gellis, US attorney |
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| 16.00-16.30 | Break | ||
| 16.30 |
Global perspectives on digital rights What are the global threats to digital rights? With Electronic Frontier Foundation's Jillian C York, Amelia Andersdotter and Privacy International's, Deputy Director Eric King |
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| 17.30 |
End and Party Heading to Dr. Inks, Stamford Street for drinks |
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