with Alison Macrina

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Thursday, August 25, 2:00pm - 3:00pm ET

In an era of both mass surveillance and increasing restrictions on access, what can we do to practically safeguard library values of privacy and access? Join Alison Macrina of Library Freedom Project to hear about some of the best technology for preserving privacy and open access. Alison will talk about tools like Tor Browser and its use in libraries, projects like SciHub and LibGen that take a radical approach to open access, and just what exactly is the "dark web" and how libraries can make use of it (yes, really!).

Alison Macrina is a librarian, privacy activist, and the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project, an initiative which aims to make real the promise of intellectual freedom in libraries by teaching librarians and their local communities about surveillance threats, privacy rights and law, and privacy-protecting technology tools to help safeguard digital freedoms. Alison is passionate about connecting surveillance issues to larger global struggles for justice, demystifying privacy and security technologies for ordinary users, and resisting an internet controlled by a handful of intelligence agencies and giant multinational corporations. When she's not doing any of that, she's reading.