Kirils Solovjovs
Kirils Solovjovs is a privacy activist and Latvia's leading white-hat hacker. He began programming at age 7, and by grade 9 was already writing machine code directly in a hex editor during lunch breaks. His hobby is asking "what are you gonna do with that piece of information about me?" everywhere every time.
He is the author of the jailbreak tool for MikroTik RouterOS and played a pivotal role in developing e-Saeima, the world's first fully remote legislative system used by the Latvian Parliament. Today, Kirils serves as lead researcher at Possible Security.
Talks
The New Architecture of Privacy in Europe
European privacy is being increasingly redefined by systems of identity verification, communication governance, pervasive sensing, and infrastructure-level control.
This talk examines four converging trends reshaping privacy in Europe: identity-based access controls, proposals to weaken private encrypted communications, expanding biometric and mobile surveillance, and AI systems that increasingly infer and generate information from public data. Together, these developments point toward an "access-controlled internet," where privacy is no longer the default but a conditional state governed by technical and regulatory systems.