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==== Overview ====
 
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Big Tech rules our lives, and surveillance is part of their business model. These companies know about us, but what do we know about them? What are their beliefs? How do they influence global politics? What relationships do they have with law enforcement and intelligence agencies? Knowing Big Tech is the first step to taking our power back from them. This week, we'll hear from Rob Larson, author of Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley, and we'll talk about the big business of big data.
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list of big tech companies eg palantir;
 
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mckinsey data use//covid; tech worker organizing against sexual harassment; privacy as consent, abuse of big tech founders
 
  
 
==== Readings ====
 
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https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/05/uks-covid-19-health-data-contracts-with-google-and-palantir-finally-emerge/
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* Excerpt from Surveillance Valley: https://thebaffler.com/latest/oakland-surveillance-levine
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April Glaser readings
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* YouTube, the Great Radicalizer: (unpaywalled copy) https://libraryfreedom.chat/t/week-8-nyt-article-un-pay-walled-youtube-the-great-radicalizer/731
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* https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-politics-radical.html
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* Facebook Is Setting Fire to America: https://theweek.com/articles/935148/facebook-setting-fire-america
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* https://jacobinmag.com/2018/06/google-project-maven-military-tech-workers
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* Tech Workers vs the Pentagon: https://jacobinmag.com/2018/06/google-project-maven-military-tech-workers
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* http://www.uncomputing.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/commercial-trolling.feb2014.pdf
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* Are We Already Living In A Tech Dystopia?: https://gizmodo.com/are-we-already-living-in-a-tech-dystopia-1844824718
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* https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59vex5/be-good-for-goodness-sake
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* 15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook: https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-15-months-of-fresh-hell/
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How Amazon automatically tracks and fires warehouse workers for ‘productivity’
 
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When the real threat is worker surveillance, not the robot apocalypse
 
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The inequalities of workplace surveillance
 
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Coronavirus is a labor crisis, and a general strike may be next
 
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Workplace monitoring and surveillance (optional long read)
 
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Should you buy an Amazon Ring doorbell? https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/should-you-buy-ring-doorbell-camera
 
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Amazon Ring's police partnerships https://www.mic.com/p/amazon-rings-police-partnerships-the-focus-of-open-letter-from-36-civil-rights-groups-19197774
 
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Amazon's Ring planned neighborhood watchlists based on facial recognition: https://theintercept.com/2019/11/26/amazon-ring-home-security-facial-recognition/
 
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Ring's hidden data let us map Amazon's sprawling home surveillance network: https://gizmodo.com/ring-s-hidden-data-let-us-map-amazons-sprawling-home-su-1840312279
 
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Leaked pics from Amazon Ring show potential new surveillance features https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/04/ring-cameras-may-someday-scan-license-plates-and-faces-leak-shows/
 
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Why Facebook’s Latest Ban of Alex Jones Was So Underwhelming by April Glaser
 
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Another 540 Million Facebook Users Data Has Been Exposed by April Glaser
 
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15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook
 
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Regulators Around the World Are Circling Facebook
 
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YouTube’s Search Results for “Abortion” Show Exactly What Anti-Abortion Activists Want Women to See by April Glaser
 
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Facebook while black: Users call it getting 'Zucked,' say talking about racism is censored as hate speech
 
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Facebook Can't Clean Up Its Data Spill by April Glaser
 
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Alex Jones Gets To Declare The Real Info War Now by April Glaser
 
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It’s Not Enough to Fine Facebook. The Feds Should Fine Mark Zuckerberg. by April Glaser
 
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* tech and gentrification
 
  
 
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==== Discussion ====
 
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* What is the relationship between privacy and the power of these companies?
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* What interventions are possible to take our power back from Big Tech?
  
 
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* Lecture, discussion forum, and final project work.

Latest revision as of 16:01, 8 September 2020

Week 8: The Global Power of Big Tech Companies[edit]

Overview[edit]

Big Tech rules our lives, and surveillance is part of their business model. These companies know about us, but what do we know about them? What are their beliefs? How do they influence global politics? What relationships do they have with law enforcement and intelligence agencies? Knowing Big Tech is the first step to taking our power back from them. This week, we'll hear from Rob Larson, author of Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley, and we'll talk about the big business of big data.

Readings[edit]

Guest lecturer[edit]

Rob Larson, author of Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley

Discussion[edit]

  • What is the relationship between privacy and the power of these companies?
  • What interventions are possible to take our power back from Big Tech?

Tasks[edit]

  • Lecture, discussion forum, and final project work.
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