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Panel: Ask the EFF
Corynne McSherry, Legal Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation, She/Her
Cooper Quintin, (he/him), Senior Staff Technologist, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Mario Trujillo, (he/him), Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Hannah Zhao, (she/they/ze), Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Rory Mir, (they/them), Associate Director of Community Organizing , Electronic Frontier Foundation
Friday 20:00 - 22:00, Track 3 Forum
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is thrilled to return to DEF CON 31 to answer your burning questions on pressing digital rights issues. Our panelists will provide updates on current EFF work, including the fight against government surveillance and protecting creative expression, before turning it over to attendees to pose questions and receive insights from our panelists on the intersection of technology and civil liberties. This is a valuable opportunity to learn from policy experts and engage in a lively discussion rooted in the problems you face. This year you’ll meet: Corynne McSherry, EFF's Legal Director specializing in intellectual property and free speech; Hannah Zhao, staff attorney focusing on criminal justice and privacy issues; Mario Trijillo, staff attorney with an expertise in privacy law; Rory Mir, Associate Director of Community Organizing; and Cooper Quintin, security researcher and public interest technologist with the EFF Threat Lab.
Corynne McSherry: As EFF's Legal Director, McSherry has extensive experience in advocating for digital civil liberties and promoting net neutrality. Her perspective on the legal frameworks shaping the digital landscape will provide DEF CON attendees with insights on regulatory issues affecting technology users.
Corynne McSherry @cmcsherr
Hannah Zhao: As a staff attorney at EFF, Zhao brings a legal expertise on criminal justice and privacy issues, with a unique background in international law and Computer Science and Management. Her breadth of expertise can offer DEF CON attendees a new way of thinking about privacy, security, and coders rights.
Hannah Zhao https://www.eff.org/about/staff/hannah-zhao
Mario Trujillo: As a Staff Attorney on EFF's civil liberties team, he has an expertise focusing on the Fourth Amendment and privacy rights. He is also part of EFF's Coders' Rights Project. Prior to joining EFF, he was an attorney at the privacy law firm ZwillGen and clerked for a federal magistrate judge on the southern border.
Mario Trujillo https://www.eff.org/about/staff/f-mario-trujillo
Cooper Quintin: As a senior public interest technologist at EFF, Quintin has a technical expertise on security, privacy, and civil liberties. He has worked on developing tools that empower users to control their online data and has researched state-sponsored malware campaigns. Quintin roots his digital security expertise in a civil liberty framework mindful of the impacts these tools have on people on the margins.
Cooper Quintin https://www.eff.org/about/staff/cooper-quintin
@cooperq,
@cooperq@infosec.exchange
Rory Mir: As EFF's Associate Director of Community Organizing, Rory works on the EFF activism team to engage community groups on tech policy issues and building community around our issues. This includes our work with the Electronic Frontier Alliance, which directly supports these groups — including a number of local DEFCON groups. Immersed in the community, Rory is familiar with the needs and issues commonly faced by the community. and how it connects to EFF issues.
Rory Mir, https://www.eff.org/about/staff/
falsemirror@octodon.social
Corynne McSherry, Legal Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation, She/Her
Cooper Quintin, (he/him), Senior Staff Technologist, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Mario Trujillo, (he/him), Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Hannah Zhao, (she/they/ze), Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Rory Mir, (they/them), Associate Director of Community Organizing , Electronic Frontier Foundation
Friday 20:00 - 22:00, Track 3 Forum
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is thrilled to return to DEF CON 31 to answer your burning questions on pressing digital rights issues. Our panelists will provide updates on current EFF work, including the fight against government surveillance and protecting creative expression, before turning it over to attendees to pose questions and receive insights from our panelists on the intersection of technology and civil liberties. This is a valuable opportunity to learn from policy experts and engage in a lively discussion rooted in the problems you face. This year you’ll meet: Corynne McSherry, EFF's Legal Director specializing in intellectual property and free speech; Hannah Zhao, staff attorney focusing on criminal justice and privacy issues; Mario Trijillo, staff attorney with an expertise in privacy law; Rory Mir, Associate Director of Community Organizing; and Cooper Quintin, security researcher and public interest technologist with the EFF Threat Lab.
Corynne McSherry: As EFF's Legal Director, McSherry has extensive experience in advocating for digital civil liberties and promoting net neutrality. Her perspective on the legal frameworks shaping the digital landscape will provide DEF CON attendees with insights on regulatory issues affecting technology users.
Corynne McSherry @cmcsherr
Hannah Zhao: As a staff attorney at EFF, Zhao brings a legal expertise on criminal justice and privacy issues, with a unique background in international law and Computer Science and Management. Her breadth of expertise can offer DEF CON attendees a new way of thinking about privacy, security, and coders rights.
Hannah Zhao https://www.eff.org/about/staff/hannah-zhao
Mario Trujillo: As a Staff Attorney on EFF's civil liberties team, he has an expertise focusing on the Fourth Amendment and privacy rights. He is also part of EFF's Coders' Rights Project. Prior to joining EFF, he was an attorney at the privacy law firm ZwillGen and clerked for a federal magistrate judge on the southern border.
Mario Trujillo https://www.eff.org/about/staff/f-mario-trujillo
Cooper Quintin: As a senior public interest technologist at EFF, Quintin has a technical expertise on security, privacy, and civil liberties. He has worked on developing tools that empower users to control their online data and has researched state-sponsored malware campaigns. Quintin roots his digital security expertise in a civil liberty framework mindful of the impacts these tools have on people on the margins.
Cooper Quintin https://www.eff.org/about/staff/cooper-quintin
@cooperq,
@cooperq@infosec.exchange
Rory Mir: As EFF's Associate Director of Community Organizing, Rory works on the EFF activism team to engage community groups on tech policy issues and building community around our issues. This includes our work with the Electronic Frontier Alliance, which directly supports these groups — including a number of local DEFCON groups. Immersed in the community, Rory is familiar with the needs and issues commonly faced by the community. and how it connects to EFF issues.
Rory Mir, https://www.eff.org/about/staff/
falsemirror@octodon.social