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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The arrest of Joseph James DeAngelo Jr, a serial killer and rapist known as the Golden State Killer, sparked public debate after law enforcement revealed they tracked him using DNA that a distant relative of DeAngelo uploaded to an ancestry matching website. With the recent explosion of these genetic testing kits, a central policy discussion will revolve around the legal rights of users and tradeoffs between security and privacy. In other words, participants should expect to see engagement on what expectation of privacy do users have under the current legal framework, and how should that framework change going forward? Are potential gains in law enforcement effectiveness sufficient to trump privacy concerns? What safeguards ought to be in place? Technical questions also abound. Are these services a reliable resource for law enforcement in the first place? How might the accuracy and reliability of DNA matching services change in the near future? To answer these questions, this panel features perspectives from former law enforcement personnel, as well as legal and forensics experts.
