Techno-Activism 3rd Mondays (TA3M) is an informal meet-up designed to connect software creators and activists who are interested in issues like censorship, surveillance, and open technology. Portland’s TA3M continues to focus on educational events and recently expanded that focus to include privacy, security, and sometimes other tech-related topics. Here, EFF speaks with Electronic Frontier Alliance member Portland’s TA3M about their work, lessons learned and what’s to come on the horizon.
What have been some of the issues you’ve concentrated on and what were some of your early successes?
Over the years, we’ve tried to do a mix of topics, helping people to understand local policies that might affect them, ways to protect their personal information, and issues related to new technologies that were coming into wider use at the time. We’ve hosted events about face recognition, gunshot detection technologies, surveillance technologies, ordinances, consumer privacy, artificial intelligence, and how to request public records. We’ve also brought in government representatives to talk about their privacy-related work.
In the BeforeTimes, we had many great privacy-related talks, including a few with privacy all-stars, like Clare Garvie and Kashmir Hill, and our biggest event ever was an in-person talk by Cyrus Farivar back in November 2019. He spoke about several legal cases and how they’ve impacted our privacy rights. One of our more frequent guests, though, is Hector Dominguez of Smart City PDX. He periodically shares his work at the City of Portland with us, detailing their efforts to increase privacy protections and transparency in the city.
Can you tell us about some of your current projects?
Most recently, we’ve had events concerning police accountability, public banking, and the City of Portland’s effort to create a surveillance technology inventory.
And, within the past year,
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