Spouseware and Stalkerware – Where Do We Go From Here?

Powerful surveillance software for everyday use tune in our calls, text messages, real-time GPS location or encrypted messaging apps like WhatsApp. These capabilities can afford dramatic powers and control over an individual’s everyday life. Surveillance apps for private purposes are routinely linked to identity theft, physical injuries, sexual harassment, extortion and child abuse, among others. Some are marketed as ways for employers to monitor the movements of their workers, or for parents to check electronically on the whereabouts of their children. Others promise to help you to reveal infidelity. However, malicious software with an aim to monitor and control a targeted person is being also sold to the governments. 

Where do the tech community, the police, and the policymakers stand on the issue of deployment of surveillance apps for private purposes? How are such products used by the governments? Is the usage of such software legal? And, lastly, how do you safeguard yourself against an attack?

A cybersecurity specialist, Eva Galperin of Electronic Frontier Foundation, is the speaker at this public event, addressing the concerns through the prism of cybersecurity, criminology, and socio-economics.

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This was admission free event with registration on Eventbrite here.

About the speaker

Eva Galperin is Director of Cybersecurity at Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the head of EFF’s Threat Lab. Eva Galperin has worked in security and IT in Silicon Valley and earned degrees in Political Science and International Relations. Her work is primarily focused on providing privacy and security for vulnerable populations around the world. To that end, she has applied the combination of her political science and technical background to writing privacy and security training materials and publishing research on malware in Syria, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, and Lebanon.

Livestream and Recording

This LogicLounge was supported by the Internet Society – The New York Chapter, which has also provided a Livestream of the event as well as the recording available on Facebook or on our YouTube channel, as well as on streaming site of the ISOC.

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COPYRIGHT: LogicLounge with Eva Galperin, by CAV 2019 / VCLA at TU Wien (CC BY-NC-SA)

Organization

The LogicLounge with Eva Galperin is hosted by the 31st International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (CAV) and organized by Daniel Schwartz-Narbonne, AWS, in collaboration with the Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms at TU Wien (VCLA). The event is supported by the Internet Society – The New York Chapter, which will also provide a Livestream of the event here.

After Oxford and Vienna, the LogicLounge in New York on July 15, is already the 15th in the series of LogicLounges which feature discussions between the public and the eminent scientists in the fields of logic, philosophy, mathematics, computer science, and artificial intelligence.

About the LogicLounge series

After Oxford and Vienna, the upcoming public talk in New York on July 15, 2019, at 5 pm in Tishman Auditorium is already the 15th in the series of LogicLounges which feature discussions between the public and the scientists in the fields of logic, philosophy, mathematics, computer science, and artificial intelligence. The recording of past LogicLounges here.