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Description:
Virtual reality and augmented reality technologies (VR/AR) are rapidly becoming more prevalent to a wider audience. This technology provides the promise to entertain and educate, to connect and enhance our lives, and even to help advocate for our rights. But it also raises the risk of eroding them online. This session will bring together experts working on Augmented/Virtual Reality with advocates working on human rights to strategize on how the digital rights community can advance a human rights-based design in the context of augmented and virtual reality. It will begin with brief remarks from Katitza Rodriguez, Avi Bar Zeev, and Kent Bye to get all participants on the same page, and will continue with facilitated smaller break-out group discussions focusing on law enforcement access to data, content moderation, "avatars, and virtual agents," and biometrics.
Facilitators:
Law Enforcement Access to Potential Evidence & Surveillance
- Kurt Opsahl, Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel, EFF
- Kavya Pearlman, Founder and CEO, XRSI
- Maya Wong, Human Rights Watch, Senior China researcher in the Asia Division
- Tamir Israel, Staff Lawyer, CIPPIC
- Vandana Verma, XRSI
Biometric Inferences and Mental Privacy
- Brittan Heller
- Daniel Leufer, Europe Policy Analyst at Access Now's Brussels office
- Katitza Rodriguez, Policy Director for Global Privacy, EFF
- Kent Bye, Producer, Voices of VR
"Avatars and Virtual Agents"
- Andreea Ion Cojocaru, Co-Funder, Numena
- Avi Bar Zeev, Pioneer, architect and advisor in AR/VR/MR/XR for nearly 30 years
- Jon Callas, Director of Technology Projects, EFF
- Micaela Mantegna, Abogamer; Founder, Geekylegal; Affiliate, Berman Klein Center for Internet & Society
- Rory Mir, Grassroot Advocacy Organizer, EFF
Content Moderation
- Gabrielle Guillemin, Senior Legal Officer, Article19
- Maria Paz Canales, Director, Derechos Digitales
- Marco Magnano, XRSI's Strategic EU Advisor
- Jessica Outlaw, Founder, The Extended Mind
- Joseph Jerome, Director, Platform Accountability and State Advocacy, Common Sense Media
