[ok-scotland] Discuss digital rights in Scotland on May 10, help start ORG Scotland!

[James Baster]

Hello all and please excuse the rare cross posting,

Hopefully some of you will be interested in this - Open Rights Group
campaigns on digital issues in the UK and are trying to build up more of a
presence in Scotland. They are campaigning for funds to hire a Scottish
member of staff*, and are holding the event below. Please note this work is
referendum neutral - if we vote Yes, a Scottish group is definitely needed
and if we vote No a Scottish presence is needed to work with the devolved
Scottish parliament and separate Scottish legal system. Hopefully you can
donate and/or get involved!

Thanks,
James

* https://www.openrightsgroup.org/join/found-org-scotland

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From: Jim Killock - ORG <jim.killock at openrightsgroup.org>
Date: Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 2:51 PM
Subject: Discuss digital rights in Scotland on May 10



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Dear James Baster,

Thanks to you, and new ORG supporters in Scotland, we are well on the way
to getting paid staff to help with digital rights and privacy issues in
Holyrood and Scotland.

We've spoken to organisations and policy makers, from the Scottish
government's Digital Directorate through to campaigners at No2ID. We've
heard from digital start ups about the problems they are having with
procurement, and from academics and journalists who feel that the impact of
erosions of privacy are not being properly explained to Scottish policy
makers.

We've invited all the experts we've spoken to to a meeting on Saturday
afternoon on May 10th in Edinburgh. We've invited Charlie Stross to speak
with us, ORG staff including myself will be there, and we will talk about
issues including:

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   Entitlement cards
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   Free speech and censorship legislation in Scotland
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   Data sharing
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   Open Data, Freedom of Information and government transparency
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   Personal health data in Scotland
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   Child care data

Can you come to the meeting? We'd like to hear from as many people as
possible, from across Scotland. We need to know what really matters, and
what we can do about it.

http://www.meetup.com/ORG-Edinburgh/events/177056802/
<http://www.meetup.com/ORG-Edinburgh/events/177056802/>

Let us know you are coming by emailing scotland at openrightsgroup.org or joining
the meet up event <http://www.meetup.com/ORG-Edinburgh/events/177056802/>.
And if you haven't already, do join
ORG,<https://www.openrightsgroup.org/join/found-org-scotland>so that
we can pay for our new Scottish member of staff!

Thanks and best wishes,

Jim Killock
Executive Director
Open Rights Group
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ORG relies on paying supporters to run campaigns like this. Please join us
to support ORG's work <https://www.openrightsgroup.org/join>.

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