LFI Course Materials 4/Week ten

Week 8: The Global Power of Big Tech Companies

• September 10th 9 - 11 Pacific/12 - 2 Eastern Zoom https://zoom.us/j/9129428892

Readings

April Glaser readings

• https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-politics-radical.html
• https://jacobinmag.com/2018/06/google-project-maven-military-tech-workers
• http://www.uncomputing.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/commercial-trolling.feb2014.pdf
• https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59vex5/be-good-for-goodness-sake

How Amazon automatically tracks and fires warehouse workers for ‘productivity’ When the real threat is worker surveillance, not the robot apocalypse The inequalities of workplace surveillance Coronavirus is a labor crisis, and a general strike may be next Workplace monitoring and surveillance (optional long read)

Should you buy an Amazon Ring doorbell? https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/should-you-buy-ring-doorbell-camera 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 Amazon's Ring planned neighborhood watchlists based on facial recognition: https://theintercept.com/2019/11/26/amazon-ring-home-security-facial-recognition/ 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 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/

Guest lecturer

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