LFI 2024/Month 5

Month 5: Tools and Tech for Privacy / Privacy Tools and Strategies

• Real time lecture: Friday September 13 at 2:00-4:00 PM Eastern / 11:00-1:00 PM Pacific

Overview

Privacy Programs

• Learn how to create and deliver culturally relevant library programs on privacy

Privacy and Tech

• Passwords and other basics
• Online advertising landscape
• Data brokers in depth
• Tech and harm reduction
• How to stop websites from collecting personal data
• Better assist with tech questions and embed privacy stuff into tech work
• Barriers to privacy tools like accessibility and cost
• Alternative tools
• Anti tracking tools
• Cybersecurity issues

Readings

• "Is Meta Complicit in Israel's AI-Powered Genocide?"
• "How Chicago Became an Unlikely Leader in Body-Camera Transparency"
• "‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza"
• "Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records"
• "Can You Hide a Child's Face from AI?"
• "The Academicon: AI and Surveillance in Higher Education"
• "Nebraska Teen Who Used Pills to End Pregnancy Gets 90 Days in Jail"
• "Pregnancy Panopticon"
• "Just Cities Project: Policing"
• "Privatizing the Surveillance State"
• "Internal Atlanta Police Records Reveal Monitoring of ‘Cop City’ Opponents’ Political Activity"

Guest lecturer

Praveen Sinha, Director of Technology at Equality Labs