Seminars & Lectures

‘Freedom and Privacy’ at The Beirut Spring Festival 2015

Thursday, May 7, 2015
6:30pm -> 8:00pm
The Beirut Spring Festival 2015

Université Saint-Joseph (USJ)

Billions of individuals across the globe live connected. Each person today produces and generates tons of data. The world has already moved to the “Internet of things” era with more connected devices in everyone’s daily life. The panel will try to address key questions: Who gets the data? Who has the ability to decipher it? How is the data commoditized? What implication does this new form of connectivity have on people’s personal and public freedom and on political systems? How do “good guys” and “bad guys” use the data?

Speakers: Kevin Collier (Daily Dot, USA); Reem Al-Masri (7iber.com, Jordan); Sascha Meinrath (X-Lab, USA); Mohamad Najem (Social Media Exchange, Lebanon)
Moderator: Kelli Arena (Global Center for Journalism and Democracy, USA)

The Beirut Spring Festival, created and launched in 2009 by the Samir Kassir Foundation, is inspired by the title of one of the last articles written by Samir Kassir, shortly before his assassination in 2005.

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