Dr Richard Stallman – Freedom Issues for Web Sites

As part of OWASP AppSec Europe 2014 Conference, being hosted at Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge, we are arranging a special community based lecture by Dr Richard Stallman , President of the Free Software Foundation, who will be talking about

 

Freedom Issues for Web Sites

 

Web sites continually raise several issues of concern that affect individual users’ freedom.  As part of their design, such web sites often make users run non free software (perhaps in JavaScript) whilst others collect data about people or help both commercial and clandestine entities to do so.  Some websites may help do the user’s own computing and thus deny users control over it.  Dr Richard Stallman will speak about these problems and how to avoid them.

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