The Electronic Frontier Foundation ( EFF ) , io9 , and a coalition of lover communities are launching “ Project Secret Identity , ” a cosplay photograph campaign to raise awareness of the grandness of namelessness and privacy during the yearly pop culture conventionDragon Conin Atlanta , Georgia , Aug. 29 – Sept. 1 .
The drive , online atProjectSecretIdentity.org , is supported by a cross - fandom coalition of organization , including : Southeastern Browncoats , a Firefly - inhale non - profit ; theHarry Potter Alliance , an activism establishment ; theBaker Street Babes , a Sherlock Holmes fan group and podcast;Wattpad , a residential district of readers and writers ; and theOrganization for Transformative Works , a fan - civilisation advocacy organization .
https://projectsecretidentity.org/
“ Whether it ’s the ‘ Eye of Sauron ’ in The Lord of the Rings or ‘ The political machine ’ in Person of Interest , literary genre acculturation has long explored and criticized mass surveillance , ” enunciate EFF Investigative Researcher Dave Maass . “ The last year ’s worth of stories about the NSA have understand too much like dystopian fable . In reply , we need to focalize the imagery of fans to recommend for a futurity where free construction is protected through secrecy and anonymity . ”
During the cause , cosplayers around the world can useProjectSecretIdentity.orgto post photos of themselves in costume bear pro - anonymity slogan , such as “ I Have the rightfield to a Secret identity operator ” and “ Privacy is Not a Fantasy . ” Dragon Con meeter can also stop by the Project Secret Identity pic stations at EFF ’s table ( 2nd storey at the Hilton Atlanta ) and the Southeastern Browncoats ’ stall ( # 1000 at AmericasMart ) .
“ In J.K. Rowling ’s novels , Voldemort came to superpower not only through compulsion , but by monitoring , controlling , and censor the Wizarding World ’s course of communicating , ” Harry Potter Alliance Executive Director Paul DeGeorge order . “ In the real globe , there is no appeal - protect room where we can see and organize in mystery . What we have is the net and we need to fight to keep it free and impregnable . ”
“ Freedom from tyrannical governments is central to the ethos of theFirefly fandom , ” said Serenity Richards , senior pilot of the Southeastern Browncoats . “ By put up up for anonymity today , we can prevent ‘ The Alliance ’ from becoming a reality in the time to come . ”
The activism run co-occur with Dragon Con’sElectronic Frontiers Forum , a track of gore on the intersection of engineering science with barren speech and secrecy . EFF Deputy General Counsel Kurt Opsahl will lay out an update to his acclaimed presentation , “ Through a optical prism , in darkness : Everything we have it away about NSA espial , ” which debuted at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg , Germany in December 2013 . Opsahl and Maass will also address on a number of give-and-take panel , cover issues ranging from law searches of cellular phone earpiece to the Freedom of Information Act .
EFF will also stand screenings ofTerms and Conditions May Apply , a 2013 infotainment about Web website terms of avail , andThe Internet ’s Own Boy , Brian Knappenberger ’s 2014 documentary about the later Internet activist Aaron Swartz .
found in 1987 , Dragon Con is gestate to pull more than 62,000 attendees this year .
io9 ’s Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders will be at Dragon Con . Come seeAnnalee speaking on panels in the science course , or just say hi !
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