Natalia Krapiva is the tech-legal Counsel with Access Now. Prior to that she worked as a prosecutor at Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office. She's been fighting NSO Group to try to limit the sale and use of spyware for many years and last December set a precedent with a win against this Israeli cyber-intelligence firm in the California court.We talk to her about this and the state of digital forensics. As she says "it's a game of cat and mouse."
Roger Dingledine is an American computer scientist known for having co-founded the Tor Project and he still works there as a project Leader, Director, and Research Director.The Tor Project develops and maintains The Tor Browser system, also known as The Onion Router, a free, open source and sophisticated privacy tool that provides anonymity for web surfing and communication. Hear about this and their latest development 'Snowflake'.
David Kaye is a clinical professor of law at the University of California, where he teaches international human rights law and international humanitarian law. David works at the intersection of technology, freedom of speech and democratic deliberation. He was also the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression up until 2020. He shares his insights into the state of the United States and the implications of the "mindless pillage" on the rest of the world.
Aymen Zaghdoudi is Access Now’s Middle East and North African Senior Policy Counsel. He is also an assistant Professor at the Institute of Press and Information Sciences in Tunisia where he teaches Press law, Media regulation, and Constitutional law. He shares stories of dissent from his experience on the ground in Tunisia.
One of the featured thought leaders at the opening ceremony of RightsCon 2025 was Htaike Htaike Aung. She’s the Executive Director at Myanmar Internet Communication Technologies for Development Organization or MIDO, and she spoke with us about some of the challenges faced by citizens in a country that has endured four years of a military coup and 83 internet shutdowns.