Oh hai, 1. I was encouraged to forward the information about this upcoming event to this list in case anyone was interested. 2. I will be in Vienna for the first time ever, for this event. Are there any neighbors who have a couch I could crash on for a night or two? As background, I was involved in Noisebridge from the beginning, and went to my first Congress in 2008. I relocated to Berlin from San Francisco about 6 months ago, still new to everything. :) ------ http://www.identityworkshop.eu It is in Vienna, Austria from 2-3 December 2015. tl;dr: This event is an opportunity for privacy conscious people to have a discussion with governments and corporations. For context, it seemed like we needed more discussion with policymakers in Europe about the issues around trust and identity. I reached out to the organizer of this event and suggested the topic. As a result, there is now a third focus topic: "Privacy and Identity While “better” identities like Facebook’s real names or government issued eIDs relieve certain security threats, they are against certain privacy principles and result in a shifted risk equation. What are the positions, options and best practices for actors in this ecosystem, joining different jurisdictions across the Internet?" One of the goals here is to open a channel to bridge the quite large divide between government/business and privacy, and figure out if there are better ways to handle a lot of the issues we're seeing today. The "real" names issue is a big one, but there are many others (data sharing, lack of accountability, etc). Cheers, aestetix PS: Let me know if you can make it, we're trying to get a list of the privacy aware people to ensure all sides of the conversation are represented.