One ton of illegal ivory confiscated by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, June 2015. Demotix/Richard Levine. All rights reserved. openDemocracy (oD): Could you introduce yourself and say a few words about how you ended up where you are?
Claudio Agosti: I am Claudio Agosti, from Italy. I am working on two projects. The one which I am talking about today is GlobaLeaks. I’ve been running this project for 5 years. Our NGO is dedicated to developing software to empower whistleblowing. This is why I switched, career-wise, from protecting computers to trying to protect users. My other engagement is with Tactical Tech, an NGO based in Berlin, where I work on data politics. This means understanding how user data is tracked and stored during its navigation on the Internet, in order to raise data protection awareness.
