Abstract

How do digital security and privacy interact with various LGBTQ plus communities and how do those communities view and interact with digital systems in the connected world? There is no single answer to this question as it depends greatly on the demographics of what makes up a community, including age, economic status, and cultural background. The rules of interaction in digital spaces, and the expectations that people can have about both digital security are defined by those who create and maintain the platforms that people use to interact every day, whether that’s on social media, or the now ubiquitous app culture. The intersection of digital security and privacy with LGBTQ plus communities is the topic of this talk, which will show how the systems we build affect the members of the communities that use these systems.

Bio: George V. Neville-Neil is an industrial visitor at the Computer Laboratory and works on networking and operating system code for fun and profit. He also teaches courses on various subjects related to programming. His areas of interest are code spelunking, operating systems, networking and time protocols. He is the co-author with Marshall Kirk McKusick and Robert N. M. Watson of The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System. For over fifteen years he has been the columnist better known as Kode Vicious. He earned his bachelor’s degree in computer science at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and is a member of ACM , the Usenix Association, and IEEE . He is an avid bicyclist and traveler who currently lives with his husband in New York City.