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RightsCon Tunis 2019

Welcome to the Official Schedule for RightsCon 2019, the world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age.

Together at RightsCon Tunis, our first summit hosted in the Middle East and North Africa, more than 2500 expert practitioners will come together across over 400 sessions to shape, contribute to, and drive forward the global agenda for the future of our human rights.

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RightsCon is brought to you by Access Now.

Diego Naranjo

European Digital Rights (EDRi)
Senior Policy Advisor
Brussels (Belgium)

https://edri.org/diego/

5:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Opening Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)

9:00am BST

Citizens or Users? Building the global resistance against platform monopolies Jelsa (Laico)

10:30am BST

Machine Learning 101 for Human Rights Activists: Everything you wanted to know about machine learning but were afraid to ask Hannibal (Laico) Terrorist online content regulations in Europe and beyond: changing the platform liability paradigm? Leptis (Laico) Defense Against the Dark Arts: Meme Campaigns and Propaganda Elydhafa (Laico)

12:00pm BST

Privacy in Employer-Employee Relationships: The grey areas in workers’ rights to privacy protection and employers’ legitimate interests Carthage 3 (Laico)

3:45pm BST

From Crypto-wars to Crypto-Peace: How do we improve encryption policy in the real world? Hannibal (Laico)

5:15pm BST

Is Open-Source Your Unicorn? Dialogue on the sustainability, data security, and ethics of human rights apps Biscay (Palais)

9:00pm BST

Mawjoudin and Access Now Diversity Party Bridge Bar (Laico)

10:30am BST

Do Our Faces Deserve the Same Protection as Our Phones? Regulation and governance of facial recognition technology Oya 1 (Laico) Coffee and Democracy: Let's talk about the EU elections results and what it means for digital rights Jelsa (Laico)

12:00pm BST

Surveilling Dissent: Online spy mechanisms used by police against protestors L'Escale (Laico)

2:15pm BST

Who wants to be a terrorist? The radicalisation of free speech control through measures against terrorist content online Oya 2 (Laico)

3:45pm BST

Big Data Strikes Back: Building the data protection rebellion Dougga (Laico)

7:00pm BST

Official RightsCon Party Laico Pool Deck

9:00pm BST

Party in the Penthouse 13th Floor (Laico)

10:30am BST

Disinformation and Our Deepest Beliefs: Are more radical measures needed? L'Escale (Laico)

4:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Closing Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)

My Moderators Sessions

9:00am BST

Citizens or Users? Building the global resistance against platform monopolies Jelsa (Laico)

3:45pm BST

Big Data Strikes Back: Building the data protection rebellion Dougga (Laico)