RightsCon 2022: CDT Experts Show Up in Force

By CDT Intern Madeliene Dwyer

From June 6-10, a number of CDT experts are slated to appear at RightsCon 2022 – one of the world’s premier spaces to convene discussions centering on human rights in the digital age.

CDT staff and coalition partners will be featured in multiple events, focusing on topics such as expanding cybernorm research, gendered disinformation targeting women, encryption, racial and gender justice in tech policy, disability rights, cybersecurity, and user data in criminal investigations.

If you’re registered for the summit, we invite you to sit in on these sessions and engage with our policy experts!

* Monday, June 6 | 1:15 – 2:15 pm EDT
Global perspectives on the threats and harms of gendered disinformation targeting women in public life

• With Dhanaraj Thakur, CDT’s Research Director & Asha Allen, Advocacy Director for CDT Europe, Online Expression & Civic Space
• Host organization: Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT)

* Monday, June 6 | 3:45 – 4:45 pm EDT
Cybersecurity and data protection in US schools and educational institutions

• With Hannah Quay-de la Vallee, CDT’s Senior Technologist
• Host organization: Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT)

* Tuesday, June 7 | 6:15 – 7:15 am EDT
Let’s save encryption! Meet the Global Encryption Coalition

• With Greg Nojeim, Senior Counsel and Co-Director for CDT’s Security and Surveillance Project
• Greg will be at the “Threats to Encryption – United States” table
• Host organization: Global Encryption Coalition | Global Partners Digital (GPD) | Internet Society (ISOC) | Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT)

* Wednesday, June 8 | 1:30 – 1:45 am EDT
Community Voices: Global Encryption Coalition

• Hosted by the Global Encryption Coalition

* Wednesday, June 8 | 2:00 – 3:00 pm EDT
How much user data can be used in criminal investigations? Electronic evidence and user data types

• With Greg Nojeim, Senior Counsel and Co-Director for CDT’s Security and Surveillance Project
• Host organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) | Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) | Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network | Cross-Border Data Forum

* Thursday, June 9 | 8:15 – 9:15 am EDT
Who writes the rules? Centering the excluded majority in tech policy

• With Asha Allen (personal capacity)
• Host organization: alaàṣẹ – Black feminist internet lab

* Thursday, June 9 | 5:15 – 6:15 pm EDT
In service of convergence: building a multidisciplinary community of cybernorms practitioners

• With Mallory Knodel, CDT’s Chief Technology Officer
• Host organization: Independent

* Friday, June 10 | 10:30 – 11:30 am EDT
The Digital Services Act (DSA): what comes next for the EU – and the rest of the world?

• With Asha Allen, Advocacy Director for CDT Europe’s Online Expression & Civic Space & Emma Llansó, CDT’s Director of the Free Expression Project
• Host organization: Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT)

* Friday, June 10 | 10:30 – 11:30 am EDT
Users in residence: how platforms are deepening user research with activists

• With Mallory Knodel, CDT’s Chief Technology Officer
• Host organization: Google

* Friday, June 10 | 10:45 – 11:30 am EDT
Fireside chat: dismantling digital ableism in technology design

• With Lydia X.Z. Brown, Policy Counsel with CDT’s Privacy and Data Project