The one-day course, "Living with the RIP - a journalist's guide to surviving cyber-regulation", will be addressed by leading internet journalists, legal and anti-surveillance experts who will offer advice to journalists on how they can protect themselves and their sources from cyber-snooping.
"The RIP Act means the e-mail addresses for journalist's sources are up for grabs without a warrant," Caspar Bowden, the director for the Foundation for Information Policy Research, told dotJournalism. "They can be obtained by a wide variety of official agencies, therefore journalists will need to learn how to use privacy tools," he said. More information about these tools and the impact of RIP can be found on the FIPR site.
The seminar will offer advice on:
• how journalists can protect themselves and their sources without breaking the law;
• how to use privacy protection to avoid snooping;
• strategies for dealing with legal orders to hand over materials and encryption keys; and,
• how sources can be briefed so they avoid compromising themselves and journalists.
Speakers include Caspar Bowden, practising barrister, Tim Eicke, the UK's leading expert on the RIP Act and Ian Brown, an expert in encryption and surveillance counter-measures. Veteran investigative journalist Duncan Campbell and internet journalist and new media consultant Bill Thompson will also take part.
The course is being organised by NetMedia and registration is via the sponsor's homepage CourseLeader - the IT training portal.
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