The Not-so-secret future - Jilian York
Channel: Nextcloud
Date: 2019-10-25

Nextcloud Conference 2019

Jillian C. York is a writer and activist whose work examines the impact of technology on our societal and cultural values. Based in Berlin, she is the Director for International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a fellow at the Center for Internet & Human Rights at the European University Viadrina.

Jillian co-founded Onlinecensorship.org, an award-winning project that seeks to encourage companies to operate with greater transparency and accountability toward their users as they make decisions that regulate speech. She is a frequent public speaker on topics including censorship, surveillance, and the impact of social media on our lives and our societies, and her writing has been published by the Motherboard, Buzzfeed, Al Jazeera, the Atlantic, the Guardian, Quartz, The Washington Post, and Die Zeit, among others. Jillian currently serves as Deputy Convener on the IFEX Council, on the Advisory Council of the Open Tech Fund, the Advisory Board of SMEX, and on the International Advisory Board of the International Free Expression Project.