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DESCRIPTION:   'Title: Abating the Eye of Sauron: Help Combat Authoritarian
 \n   Censorship\n   When: Saturday\, Aug 12\, 14:00 - 15:50 PDT\n   Where:
  Caesars Forum - Summit - 220 - Policy NOT-A-SCIF - [1]Map\n   Speakers:Da
 vid Houston\,Michaela Lee\n\n   SpeakerBio:David Houston \, International 
 Relations Officer\, Bureau of\n   Democracy\, Human Rights\, and Labor at 
 U.S. Department of State\n   David Houston is a career member of the Forei
 gn Service with the U.S.\n   Department of State\, currently working on th
 e Internet freedom team\n   and confronting issues at the nexus of emergin
 g technology and human\n   rights impact. He is a former Army Captain and 
 combat veteran of the\n   war in Afghanistan\, and has served at embassies
  in Beijing\, Panama\,\n   and Mogadishu.\n\n   SpeakerBio:Michaela Lee \,
  Director for Strategy and Research at The\n   Office of National Cyber Di
 rector (ONCD)\n   Michaela Lee is the Director for Strategy and Research a
 t the Office\n   of the National Cyber Director. Prior to her present role
 \, Michaela\n   worked at the intersection of geopolitical risk and cybers
 ecurity at\n   the Krebs Stamos Group. Her background is in emerging techn
 ologies and\n   human rights\, having covered issues of artificial intelli
 gence\,\n   privacy\, and platform governance at nonprofit BSR (Business f
 or Social\n   Responsibility). She is a graduate of the University of Cali
 fornia\,\n   Davis and the Harvard Kennedy School.\n\n   Description:\n   
 Authoritarian regimes abuse technology as a tool to suppress critics\,\n  
  journalists\, human rights defenders\, and more. Often\, they exploit\n  
  security weaknesses in common Internet technologies in their attempts\n  
  to censor information and communication and curtail freedom of\n   expres
 sion. ONCD and the State Department will talk about how\n   authoritarian 
 regimes censor their populations\, U.S. Government\n   efforts to increase
  security while combatting authoritarian censorship\n   and repression\, a
 nd how to help.\n\n   The lack of security and resilience throughout the n
 etwork stack\n   creates opportunities for authoritarian regimes to repres
 s or censor\n   at scale. We will talk through how regimes have historical
 ly taken\n   advantage of protocols\, internet infrastructure\, and lack o
 f\n   encryption to do just that. We’ll then talk about how the U.S.\n  
  Government is approaching this problem.\n\n   But most technology\, devel
 opment\, and internet services are in the\n   private sector\, not the gov
 ernment. So we'll talk about how the\n   community can help: from protocol
 s that need more research and\n   testing\, to implementing known security
  practices\, attendees will\n   learn how they can contribute to Internet 
 freedom!\n\n   '\n\n   1. #CaesarsSummitBR\n\n\n
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LOCATION:PLV - Caesars Forum - Summit - 220 - Policy NOT-A-SCIF
SUMMARY:Abating the Eye of Sauron: Help Combat Authoritarian Censorship
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