This week, we continue our look at sex, work and the state with guest, <a href="https://twitter-com/normanshamas/">Norman Shamas</a>. Norman Shamas is an activist and educator whose work focuses on human-centered information and digital security and privacy. Now, Norman is not a lawyer but shares their insights about the legal situation around FOSTA, or Fighting Online Sex Trafficking Act that passed into law in the U.S. last year and it’s implications for sex workers, for those trying to fight sex trafficking and for people communicating desire without coercion or monetary exchange, folks looking for a hookup. This interview was conducted for our Error451 podcast, an occasional project focusing on digital security and tech from an anarchist perspective, but because of the prescience of Norman’s words, we wanted to share it as an episode for the airwaves. Later in the interview we talk about Norman’s writing a bit, including issues around queer dating apps and how they’ve been used to persecute folks for their sexualities and genders in various parts of the world and how we can pressure app developers and platforms to take the security of their users more seriously.

For the full conversation including links to articles and subjects we talk about, as well as this week’s Sean Swain segment, check out our podcast version available at <a href="https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/">thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org</a>.

Red Umbrella Tech Collective: <a href="https://redumbrellatech.com/">https://redumbrellatech.com/</a> Safer Nudes from Coding Rights: <a href="https://www.codingrights.org/4/">https://www.codingrights.org/4/</a> Hacking // Hustling (incl. a recording of the panel): <a href="http://melissagiragrant.com/hackinghustling/">http://melissagiragrant.com/hackinghustling/</a> Open Privacy: <a href="https://openprivacy.ca/">https://openprivacy.ca/</a> CWTCH platform and protocol: <a href="https://cwtch.im/">https://cwtch.im/</a>

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