[Air-L] Join us! Call for Participation in the 3rd Workshop on Obfuscation. Announcing platframe, preliminary schedule and contributors

[Seda Guerses]

Hey everyone,
The preliminary program for the obfuscation workshop is out! 
Please find the details below.
I hope you will consider joining us or at least making use of the resources on our platform.
s.


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The 3rd Workshop on Obfuscation
May 4 & 7, 2021. Online gathering
http://3rd.obfuscationworkshop.org
Co-sponsored by TPM, TU Delft and DLI, Cornell Tech
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We are pleased to announce that the 3rd Workshop on Obfuscation will finally take place online on May 4 and 7th, 2021. Everyone is welcome to participate! Please visit our website 3rd.obfuscationworkshop.org to register and more details!


Overview and topics:
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Obfuscation strategies represent creative ways to evade surveillance, protect privacy, improve security; as well as protest, contest, resist and sabotage technology. Obfuscation methods render data more ambiguous, difficult to exploit and interpret, less useful. They rely on the addition of gibberish, meaningless data; they pollute, add noise, randomize. Obfuscation invokes an intuitive form of protection: it distorts that which is visible to render it less (or in)visible. It hides the trees among the forest. The aim of the 3rd Workshop on Obfuscation is to foster interaction among diverse communities of research, concern and practice interested in obfuscation. We convene researchers, scientists, policy makers, developers, journalists, activists, artists and other interested parties to discuss obfuscation in environments and conditions of asymmetrical power and information. 

List of sessions and Contributors (not final)
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AdNauseam past, present and future // Public interest technologies for the ML age // Human/Machine behavior and intent // Friction // Face-veillance // Cybernetics and obfuscation

Helen Nissenbaum, Finn P. Brunton, Femke Snelting, Lee McGuigan, Sally Chen, Michael Veale, Ellen Goodman, Amy X. Zhang, Patrick Skeba, Eric P. S. Baumer, Lior Zalmanson, Niva Elkin-Koren, Annelies Moors, Annemiek van Boeijen, Lujo Bauer, Vidushi Marda, Nadia Fadil, Ramon Amaro, Robin Berjon, Elizabeth Renieris, Carmela Troncoso, Bettina Berendt, Kendra Albert, Sauvik Das, Nicholas Vincent, Kulynych Bogdan, Bekah Overdorf, Caspar Chorus, Amineh Gorbani, Ulf Liebe, Michael Castelle, Natasha Dow Schull, David Abbink, Deborah Forster and Erwin Boer.


Registration:
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Please register at: https://3rd.obfuscationworkshop.org/reception/register
If you need a fee waiver, please contact us at obfuscation at cornell.edu.

We encourage you to register early. The number of places is limited and will be allocated on a first-come-first-serve basis. 


Platform:
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In order to avoid using commercial platforms that subject us to further data collection and commercialisation of education, we worked with Hacker's and Designers, a non-profit initiative, to create our own platframe! 
You can take a tour of the platframe here: https://3rd.obfuscationworkshop.org/tour
We will also use the TU Delft instance of BigBlueButton for which tutorials can be found here: https://bigbluebutton.org/teachers/tutorials/.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
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Ero Balsa (Cornell Tech)
Seda Gurses (Delft University of Technology)
Helen Nissenbaum (Cornell Tech) 
Jara Rocha (Independent Researcher)

This event was possible with the kind support of The Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech, European Research Council, Consolidator grant 724431-BEHAVE and TU Delft's Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management (TPM).

For any questions, comments or requests, you can reach us at obfuscation at cornell.edu.
Please feel encouraged to share this announcement in your circles. 

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