"Scams Exploiting Feelings: Privacy and Security Online": In-Person Badger Talk in Madison, WI

Name: "Scams Exploiting Feelings: Privacy and Security Online": In-Person Badger Talk in Madison, WI
Start: 2025-09-30T13:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-09-30T16:00:00-05:00
Location: 214 Waubesa St, Madison, WI 53704-5736, United States

Schedule

Tue Sep 30 2025 at 01:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

214 Waubesa St, Madison, WI 53704-5736, United States | Madison, WI

This is a FREE, in-person event hosted by AARP Wisconsin--part of the Madison Scam Jam--on September 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM CDT. Advanced registration is encouraged. Register online here: https://events.aarp.org/event/b09b09e3-ef1a-4e5a-a8c7-dece049cc4aa/summary, or by calling 877-926-8300. This in-person talk will not be available virtually.
Scammers use your feelings against you: fear, hope, love, shame, even kindness. Learn to recognize some of their common gambits so you can stop them in their tracks.
Dorothea Salo teaches about digital information in the iSchool at UW-Madison: everything from online privacy and security to relational-database design. She has also built “Recover Analog and Digital Data” (RADD) to save personal, family, and community history in Wisconsin from decaying 20th-century media such as VHStapes and floppy disks. Her professional interests include copyright, scholarly communication, and digital preservation.