EFF Geek Reading: "Shedding Your Identity in the Digital Age" April 13, 2010

Geek Reading with Evan Ratliff:
Shedding Your Identity in the Digital Age
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at 7 PM

Join EFF for the latest installment of our Geek Reading Series with Evan Ratliff at 111 Minna Gallery. After writing a story for Wired Magazine about people who attempted to fake their own deaths, Evan set out to do something similar himself. On August 15 2009, he went underground, and challenged Wired readers to track him down, offering a $5,000 reward.

Evan lasted 25 days on the run, and documented it all in in his Wired article, "Vanish". The article was recently named a finalist for the National Magazine Award for feature writing, and picked for the Best of Technology Writing 2010. Evan will share his behind-the-scenes experiences of what it means to disappear in the digital age, exploring the questions of privacy, surveillance, and identity raised by his groundbreaking experiment.

Ratliff is a freelance journalist whose writing appears in Wired magazine, The New Yorker, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Outside, Discover, Men's Journal, New York, and many other publications.

Admission to the Geek Reading is $25. Attendees must be age 21 or over. Please RSVP to [email protected]. Geek Readings tend fill quickly. You can purchase your ticket in advance at: www.eff.org/geekreading

Date: Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Address:
111 Minna Street
San Francisco, CA 94105

Official Website: http://www.eff.org/geekreading