Geek Reading with Evan Ratliff

TUESDAY | APRIL 13th | 7-9pm | ticket purchase required
Presented by EFF | Space: Zappa Room | Open to the Public

Shedding Your Identity in the Digital Age

Join EFF for the latest installment of our Geek Reading Series with Evan Ratliff at 111 Minna Gallery. After writing a story for Wired Magazine about people who attempted to fake their own deaths, Evan set out to do something similar himself. On August 15 2009, he went underground, and challenged Wired readers to track him down, offering a $5,000 reward.

Evan lasted 25 days on the run, and documented it all in in his Wired article, “Vanish”. The article was recently named a finalist for the National Magazine Award for feature writing, and picked for the Best of Technology Writing 2010. Evan will share his behind-the-scenes experiences of what it means to disappear in the digital age, exploring the questions of privacy, surveillance, and identity raised by his groundbreaking experiment.

Ratliff is a freelance journalist whose writing appears in Wired magazine, The New Yorker, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Outside, Discover, Men’s Journal, New York, and many other publications. A contributing editor for Wired, he is the co-author of “Safe: The Race to Protect Ourselves in a Newly Dangerous World” (HarperCollins, 2005), about innovation and counterterrorism.

Admission to the Geek Reading is $25. Attendees must be age 21 or over. Please RSVP to events@eff.org.

Geek Readings tend fill quickly. You can purchase your ticket here.