openfest@kirils.org
Kirils Solovjovs is Latvia's leading white-hat hacker and IT policy activist, known for uncovering and responsibly disclosing critical security vulnerabilities in national and international systems. An expert in penetration testing, network flow analysis, and reverse engineering, he is also a lifelong command-line enthusiast. Kirils started programming at age 7 and by grade 9 was spending his lunch breaks writing machine code directly in a hex editor. He uses bash daily for hacking, automation, and large-scale data processing and is sometimes contracted by major online education providers to proofread their bash certification exams. He currently is the lead researcher at Possible Security.
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Privacy in Europe is undergoing a structural shift toward proactive systems of identity verification, communication governance, environmental sensing, and data infrastructure control.
This talk examines four converging mechanisms driving this transition: age verification frameworks that bind access to verified identity; ongoing EU-level proposals around inspection of private encrypted communications under the guise of child safety; expansion of ubiquitous physical-world surveillance through biometric systems, and mobile inference; and the accelerating impact of AI systems that transform public data into inferential and generative models with limited provenance guarantees. Together, these developments suggest a move away from privacy as a default property of digital systems toward privacy as a conditional, regulated state contingent on compliance with layered technical and legal requirements. Using EU policy trajectory as the primary case study, the talk argues that these mechanisms are not isolated policy choices but components of a broader convergence toward an "access-controlled internet," where identity, communication, and content are increasingly mediated by interoperable governance systems rather than open network principles.