797622 - Event - (2012-11-16 12:00 UTC-8) - SFO Commons - Privacy Icons Legal Hackathon

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Description

[Ben Moskowitz]

Topic: Privacy Icons Legal Hackathon
Presenter: Alex Fowler, Mozilla; Laura Berger, FTC; Casey Oppenheim, Disconnect.me
Date: 2012-11-16
Time: 12:00 UTC-8
Duration: 2 hours
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Description: Date:
November 16, Noon PST
Mozilla Headquarters in San Francisco (2 Harrison Street, 7th Floor)
Live stream and video replay: https://air.mozilla.org/
Twitter: #privacyicons

Description:
People rarely read privacy policies, but they're important. So let's make it easier for users to understand the most meaningful things a website does with their data. Disconnect is hosting a project to crowd-source — think Wikipedia — turning websites' privacy policies into a set of Creative Commons licensed privacy icons. The project will publicly launch with an API so that any developer can build tools using the icons and crowd-sourced data. Here's a link to the current iteration of the project and a rudimentary Firefox add-on we created for the hackathon:https://icons.disconnect.me/

Everyone is welcome to participate, no coding skills are required. Our goal for the hackathon is to iconify 1000 (or more) privacy policies so we ask each participant to read the privacy policies of 10 websites and apply the privacy icons to those sites. This critical mass of policies will be the foundation for further development of privacy-icon tools -- and perhaps the theme for a follow up coder hackathon.

Schedule:	
The event will kickoff with brief talks by Alex Fowler (Global Privacy and Public Policy Leader at Mozilla), Laura Berger (Sr. Attorney Division of Privacy and Identity Protection at FTC), Casey Oppenheim (Co-founder of Disconnect) and a few other speakers to be announced. The rest of the event will be dedicated to participants applying the icons and discussion about privacy policies (i.e. fun, fun, fun!). Privacy experts will be standing by live and remotely to answer and ask questions via Twitter.

Comment 1

[Tabitha Romero [:tab]]

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Comment 2

[Tabitha Romero [:tab]]

Event has been added to the brownbag calendar.

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