WHO: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Berkeley Center for Law and
Technology, Anonymizer, Disappearing
Inc., Incogno, iPrivacy, Safeweb, Zendit, ZeroKnowledge, and ZipLip
WHAT: "BayFF" Mini Tech Fair Showcasing Privacy Enhancing Offerings
WHEN: Monday, December 4, 2000, at 7pm PT
WHERE: Berkeley Center for Law & Technology
UC-Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall)
Room 140
Berkeley, California 94720-7200
This event is free and open to the general public. Food and beverages will be served.
The upcoming BayFF focuses on eight companies who will be demonstrating their privacy enhancing products.
In a world of web bugs and online tracking devices, it can be hard to know who has access to your personal information. As online privacy becomes a more important issue to the public at large, the business world is attempting to provide solutions.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology are hosting a tech fair with eight privacy-focused companies which will demo products that can help you keep your private information in your own hands this holiday season. Learn how to send encrypted messages through your email account, surf the web privately, and even purchase things online anonymously! Each company will be set up to show you exactly how its product works and answer any questions you may have. You have choices in the way you use the Internet. Come and learn about what they are.
Below are descriptions of each of the particpating vendors describing what they do. These descriptions are from materials supplied to us by the individual companies and so EFF cannot warrant their completeness or accuracy.
Anonymizer.com has offered users the ability to surf the web in a private and anonymous fashion since 1996. Their mission is to ensure that an individual's right to privacy is not compromised by going online. ( http://www.anonymizer.com )
Disappearing Inc. is the developer of Disappearing(tm) Email, which lets individuals write their messages with a digital version of disappearing ink and allows companies to implement mail policies.( http://www.disappearing.com )
The Incogno corporation provides an anonymous e-commerce solution offered to customers by Internet merchants. Using Incogno SafeZone, customers can buy and receive product shipments without revealing their names, addresses, e-mail addresses, or credit card information to the merchant. ( http://www.incogno.com )
iPrivacy protects against the tracking of clickstream data and the collection of personal and financial information into databases. iPrivacy protects consumers by substituting one-time use, private information for their real identity, enabling consumers to surf, purchase and receive delivery of goods bought on the Internet in complete privacy. ( http://www.iprivacy.com )
SafeWeb enables users to surf the Internet privately and securely from any major browser or platform, at anytime and for free, without downloads. SafeWeb encrypts all web content and protects users from invasive cookies, scripts and web bugs via a seamless and easy to use web interface. ( http://www.safeweb.com )
Zendit is a Seattle-based company developing a suite of Web-based encryption and privacy tools that will empower online users with the ability to communicate, travel and purchase on the Internet with their privacy intact. The system will form the basis of a secure, privacy-enhanced, messaging and transaction platform.( http://www.zendit.com )
Zero-Knowledge Systems is laying the digital infrastructure for privacy-enabled communications and commerce. Zero-Knowledge provides consumers and corporations with products and services that enable privacy through advanced mathematics, cryptography and source code. ( http://www.zeroknowledge.com )
ZipLip is a developer of secure applications for enterprises and consumers around the world. ZipLip systems deliver to all web-based devices including PCs, PDAs, and wireless handsets internationally. ( http://www.ziplip.com )
For directions to the event, you can use free services like http://www.mapquest.com or http://maps.yahoo.com to generate driving directions or maps. For BART, CalTrain and Muni directions, please call their information lines.
This month's BayFF will be Webcast by eClipsNow! which has kindly donated
its services to EFF. eClipsNow! has been Webcasting corporate events,
public affairs music and entertainment since 1996. eClipsNow!'s
Web site:
http://www.eclipsnow.com
Go here to access the Webcast itself:
http://www.eclipsnow.com/business/bayff/bayff_dec.asx
It requires Windows Media Player as far as we know (though RealPlayer 8
might also work.)
BayFF is first and foremost a real-space event, meant to serve as an
educational forum for the local community, as well as a catalyst for
like-minded activists. Locals, please show your support in person!
BayFF fans and followers that are scattered across the country and around
the world can access this month's BayFF WebCast at:
http://www.eclipsnow.com/business/bayff/bayff_dec.asx
It requires Windows Media Player as far as we know (though RealPlayer 8
might also work.)
You can subscribe to receive future BayFF annoucements. To subscribe, email majordomo@eff.org and put this in the text (not the subject line): subscribe bayff.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading civil liberties
organization working to protect rights in the digital world. Founded in
1990, EFF actively encourages and challenges industry and government to
support free expression, privacy, and openness in the information society.
EFF is a member-supported organization and maintains one of the
most-linked-to Web sites in the world:
http://www.eff.org
Continuing over 10 years of defending civil liberties online, EFF presents a series of regular meetings to address important issues where technology and policy collide. These meetings, entitled "BayFF" Bay-area Friends of Freedom), kicked off on July 10, 2000, and will continue on a monthly basis.
The mission of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technologyis to foster
beneficial and ethical advancement of technology by promoting the
understanding and guiding the development of intellectual property and
related fields of law and policy as they intersect with business, science
and technology.
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/bclt
EFF's Top 12 Ways to Protect Your Online Privacy:
http://www.eff.org/privacy/eff_privacy_top_12.html
EFF's Online Privacy Archive:
http://www.eff.org/privacy
The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse:
http://www.privacyrights.org
Katina Bishop
Director of Education & Offline Activism
Electronic Frontier Foundation
+1 415 436 9333 x101
katina@eff.org