Difference between revisions of "LFI 2026/Week 4"

From Library Freedom Wiki Page
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Line 5: Line 5:
  
 
===== Readings =====  
 
===== Readings =====  
 +
Mapping the Surveillance Stack
 +
* [https://www.authoritarian-stack.info/ Authoritarian Stack]
 +
** A map of the people, ideologies, and companies behind technofascism
 +
* [https://atlasofsurveillance.org/ Atlas of Surveillance]
 +
** An interactive map of US police tech - just spend some time clicking around
 +
*[https://www.surveillancewatch.io/ Surveillance Watch]
 +
** A global map of policing and intelligence tech and their vendors. We recommend searching some of the companies from this week's readings. 
  
 +
The Tech
 +
* [https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/uploads/publications/tc2-technology101-primer-v02.pdf This is a great ACLU resource outlining some major police technologies] 
 +
* [https://www.404media.co/icezine/ 404 Media zine about ICE surveillance]
 +
* [https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/ice-going-surveillance-shopping-spree
 +
Cooper wrote this guide to a lot of ICE surveillance capabilities]
 +
 +
The People and Nations Behind the Tech
 +
* [https://www.zig.art/p/my-final-message-before-im-on-an Compelling essay by someone who used to work for Palantir] 
 +
* Israeli Mass Surveillance in the Brain of Your Phone, from Anthony Lowenstein's The Palestine Laboratory
 +
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J3dvSPsROFhsxq-7vIlq4zskcwQbsz1j/view?usp=drive_link Part one] and [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fDgXWOZc4peLYibZKEBHSn50O34CcURU/view?usp=sharing part two]
 +
 +
What We Do About It
 +
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kAvzvthh7IKNtDq6I4tcawUnG3j7KBAu/view?usp=drive_link Community Defense: interview with Sarah T. Hamid on abolishing carceral technologies, in Logic(s) issue 11]
  
 
===== Guest lecturer =====
 
===== Guest lecturer =====

Revision as of 18:45, 19 February 2026

Week 4: State and carceral surveillance and its relation to technofascists

Readings

Mapping the Surveillance Stack

  • Authoritarian Stack
    • A map of the people, ideologies, and companies behind technofascism
  • Atlas of Surveillance
    • An interactive map of US police tech - just spend some time clicking around
  • Surveillance Watch
    • A global map of policing and intelligence tech and their vendors. We recommend searching some of the companies from this week's readings.

The Tech

Cooper wrote this guide to a lot of ICE surveillance capabilities]

The People and Nations Behind the Tech

Part one and part two

What We Do About It

Guest lecturer

Cooper Quintin, senior staff technologist at Electronic Frontier Foundation

Tasks
  • Discord discussion from week 3