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=== Week 5: No lecture ===
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=== Week 5: Online learning/work/social environments ===
* No lecture this week -- returning from Philly
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* Real time lecture April 6th 11 Pacific/2 Eastern on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/9129428892 (Please note: This lecture will not be recorded at the lecturers request)
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==== Overview ====
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Quarantining means our lives -- work, school, social -- have collapsed into each other, mediated entirely by online platforms like Zoom, Skype, or Gotomeeting. What do we need to know about the privacy concerns presented by these platforms? And what alternatives exist? This week, Lindsay Oliver of Electronic Frontier Foundation joins us to discuss navigating the
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==== Readings ====
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* What you should know about online tools during the COVID-19 crisis (by Lindsay Oliver) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/what-you-should-know-about-online-tools-during-covid-19-crisis
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* Advocacy group calls on Zoom to release transparency report: https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/3/19/21186152/zoom-transparency-report-access-now-advocacy-group
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* New York attorney general looks into Zoom's privacy practices: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/technology/new-york-attorney-general-zoom-privacy.html
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==== Guest lecturer ====
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Lindsay Oliver, EFF's Activism Project Manager: https://www.eff.org/about/staff/lindsay-oliver
  
 
==== Discussion ====
 
==== Discussion ====
* Discussion of what we learned over the Philly weekend!
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* How can we use threat modeling to advise people about the safety of online collaboration tools?
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* How can we introduce alternative platforms to our communities?
  
 
==== Tasks ====  
 
==== Tasks ====  
* Follow up from the weekend on the message board
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* Lecture, readings, discussion forum, and final project work
* Watch these old LFI videos if you want: Abi Hassen on social media surveillance: https://vimeo.com/361373620; Kade Crockford on CCTV in libraries: https://vimeo.com/276286612; Brian Hofer on local organizing around surveillance issues: https://vimeo.com/349475232; Janus Rose on algorithms as ideology: https://vimeo.com/360018129
 

Revision as of 15:47, 31 March 2020

Week 5: Online learning/work/social environments

  • Real time lecture April 6th 11 Pacific/2 Eastern on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/9129428892 (Please note: This lecture will not be recorded at the lecturers request)

Overview

Quarantining means our lives -- work, school, social -- have collapsed into each other, mediated entirely by online platforms like Zoom, Skype, or Gotomeeting. What do we need to know about the privacy concerns presented by these platforms? And what alternatives exist? This week, Lindsay Oliver of Electronic Frontier Foundation joins us to discuss navigating the

Readings

Guest lecturer

Lindsay Oliver, EFF's Activism Project Manager: https://www.eff.org/about/staff/lindsay-oliver

Discussion

  • How can we use threat modeling to advise people about the safety of online collaboration tools?
  • How can we introduce alternative platforms to our communities?

Tasks

  • Lecture, readings, discussion forum, and final project work