Legal technology projects worked on at UX Sprint for Security and Privacy Tools, 1-2 March 2014

At least two legal technology projects were worked on at UX Sprint for Security & Privacy Tools , organized by OpenITP, 1-2 March 2014 in San Francisco.

Two legal technology projects scheduled to be worked on at the event were:

Martus

• Description: This is a service that creates encrypted databases for “gathering testimony on human rights abuses”


• Hackpad:http://ift.tt/1eUjRES


• Goals: “improve the ways forms are created in Martus,” create “Responsive tutorials for Martus,” conduct “Martus User Testing,” created “Martus Online Training and Help Documentation.”


• Personnel: Barbra Masters, Collin Sullivan.


• Code: http://ift.tt/1deXxt5

People’s Intelligence

• Description: this service “makes use of USSD, SMS and voice to establish a conversation with victims and witnesses of mass atrocities” and then to verify that evidence “using crowd-sourcing and ‘dumb’ mobile phones.”>


• Hackpad: http://ift.tt/1deXw8A


• Goals: “List all possible ways to compromise the identity of the users and their data both on user’s devices, over the network and on future People’s Intelligence servers;” “list security protocols to be implemented as well as possible countermeasures for each identified attack;” “Best ways to secure data when it has reached People’s Intelligence servers”>


• Personnel: Christophe Billen>

The hackpad for the event is at: http://ift.tt/1eUjRVa

The eventbright description of the event is at: http://ift.tt/1bEeUzg

One Twitter hashtag for the event appears to be #DiscoTech

The event was part of MIT Media Lab’s DiscoTech series of workshops on countersurveillance technology.

The event was also part of RightsCon Silicon Valley 2014.

HT @schock

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