Hi Change community, Next *Wed 9/4 3:30pm at UW CSE*, students from the ICTD and Security & Privacy Labs will jointly be hosting a talk by local privacy activist Cynthia Spiess. She'll be talking about how to get involved in the City of Seattle's process for publicly reviewing surveillance technologies used by the city, the Seattle Surveillance Ordinance. *Talk Title: "Seattle Surveillance Ordinance: Information for Tech Activists"* *When: Wednesday 9/4, 3:30-5 pm* *Where: Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science and Engineering, Gates Commons (rm CSE 691)* *Speaker Bio:*Cynthia Spiess has previously worked at Adobe as a Senior Security Researcher for the Adobe Secure Software Engineering Team (ASSET). Prior to that, she worked at Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a Security Engineer for the AWS AppSec team; and earlier as a Developer Support Engineer for AWS Premium Support. She has spoken at DefendCon 2017 and iSec (now NCC) Open Forum Seattle. Her work experience covers front-end and back-end web stacks (GUIs and APIs), both traditional and more modern (NoSQL DBs, docker/Mesos), SecOps/IR, and (unsurprisingly) cloud security. *Talk Summary:*The City of Seattle is in the midst of undertaking important steps that impact the privacy (and security in some cases) of all persons living, working, and traveling in Seattle for likely many years to come. This work is partially underway, with different surveillance technologies in different stages of the process. This presentation will cover what the Seattle Surveillance Ordinance is & the overall process end-to-end; what stage we’re at; noteworthy technical findings thus far; what’s next; and how to contribute your knowledge. The overall situation is one which is near starving for technical contributions and voice, so the hope is that this presentation is more than purely informational and instead results in informed participation (in any level or capacity). Here's a FB event <https://www.facebook.com/events/376419182991263/> for sharing. Please come if you can make it, and invite anyone who you think would be interested! Thanks, -Esther