Panopticon

Discussing Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.

We highly suggest you to listen to Shoshana’s talk at Data & Society (1:08 total, start at 5min).

• Panopticon session 1
• Initial Talk
• Thursday 7/18/2018, 7 to 9pm
• Private space
• Relevant links (from our signal group):
  • QR is King Mobile technology is increasingly serving as the vehicle for a sophisticated national surveillance system that’s deeply intertwined with all kinds of necessary everyday transactions.
  • This map shows where local police departments partner with Amazon’s RingMore than 50 police departments across the US have partnered with Ring, many who offer free or discounted Ring doorbells using taxpayer money.
  • We Read 150 Privacy Policies. They Were an Incomprehensible Disaster. A significant chunk of the data collection economy is based on consenting to complicated documents that many Americans can’t understand.
  • All Hail the AlgorithmA five-part series exploring the impact of algorithms on our everyday lives.

• Panopticon session 2
• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Part 1
• Tuesday 8/13/2018, 7 to 9pm
• Tradesman Bar
• Relevant links (from our signal group):
  • Obfuscation How we can evade, protest, and sabotage today’s pervasive digital surveillance by deploying more data, not less—and why we should.

• Session 3

• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Part 2

• Monkeywrenching the Machine

• Tuesday 8/27/2018, 7 to 9pm

• Tradesman Bar

• In this session we keep on discussing The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, aiming to distill some quotes and arguments (ask for shared doc).

  On previous session we discussed some resistance, like public awareness and watchdog groups. Make sure to read Monkeywrenching the Machine highlighting the moral imperative for sabotage.

  We should also answer session 2 question, about other possible resistance.

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• Panopticon session 4
• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Part 3
• TBD
• Tradesman Bar