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=== Week 9: Artificial intelligence, health privacy ===
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=== Week 9: Police surveillance and social media ===
* Real time lecture: December 6th, 12 - 2 pm Pacific/3 - 5 pm Eastern on Zoom https://zoom.us/j/9129428892  
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* Real time lecture: December 12th, 10am - 12pm Pacific/1pm - 3pm Eastern on Zoom https://zoom.us/j/9129428892  
* Recording: https://vimeo.com/653876501
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* Recording: https://vimeo.com/780501863
* Transcript: https://pad.riseup.net/p/4fIAredzXXX_cBmSobsX-keep
 
  
 
==== Overview ====
 
==== Overview ====
Much is made of the coming artificially intelligent future, where automation takes away menial labor and self-driving electric cars get us off the internal combustion engine. But that fantasy ignores the reality of the AI infrastructures currently being built, infrastructures that exacerbate existing social problems and create whole new concerns. Artificial intelligence is built through enormous datasets, which are often created from the wealth of information collected about us without our consent. Processing all of this data is incredibly resource-intensive. Furthermore, lots of AI is used for even greater privacy-violating purposes, like facial recognition and predictive policing. This week, we'll talk about AI in depth and efforts to oppose its worst excesses. We'll also talk about health and privacy, the connections between digital health and artificial intelligence, and patient privacy rights.  
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The rise in surveillance technologies over the past 30 years has occurred alongside the increase in mass incarceration and violent policing, especially in Black, poor, and immigrant communities. Thanks to the work of accountability movements, we've learned that police now have access to an unprecedented amount of new surveillance equipment that is often acquired and used without democratic oversight, and with little to no regulation. Police also have new relationships with corporate entities, like Amazon, in mutually beneficial relationships to acquire and deploy more of these surveillance technologies. During the 2020 uprisings for Black lives, we saw many of these capabilities used against protestors in the streets. This week, we'll discuss the landscape of police surveillance and what it means for directly impacted people in our communities. We'll also talk about how the police use social media, as well as other issues with social media and privacy.
  
 
==== Readings ====
 
==== Readings ====
* Anatomy of an AI report and visualization of the data, labor, and ecological impacts of one Amazon Echo device from AI Now Institute: https://anatomyof.ai/
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* ACLU guide to police surveillance technologies: https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/tc2-technology101-primer-v02.pdf
* The far-right helped create the world's most powerful facial recognition technology: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-alt-right_n_5e7d028bc5b6cb08a92a5c48
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* ACLU CCOPS legislation around the country: https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/community-control-over-police-surveillance?redirect=feature/community-control-over-police-surveillance
* Palantir provides Covid-19 tracking software to CDC and NHS, pitches European health agencies: https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/01/palantir-coronavirus-cdc-nhs-gotham-foundry/
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* EFF's Atlas of Surveillance (documenting police surveillance in communities) https://atlasofsurveillance.org/
* Defund facial recognition: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/07/defund-facial-recognition/613771/
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* EFF's Activist Threat Model: https://ssd.eff.org/en/playlist/activist-or-protester
* (Optional long read) Bad predictions: how civil rights violations impact police data, predictive policing systems, and justice https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3333423
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* High tech polie surveillance of protestors year in review 2020: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/high-tech-police-surveillance-protests-and-activism-year-review-2020
* (Video) Dr. Adrian Gropper on patient privacy issues and rights: https://vimeo.com/520441452
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* Media Justice "Protect Black Dissent" campaign: https://mediajustice.org/campaign/stop-spying/
* Notes and social media graphics from LFP's Health Privacy and Literacy in a Pandemic World series https://healthandprivacy.com/notes/  
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* How the NYPD is using post-911 tools on everyday New Yorkers https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/08/nyregion/nypd-9-11-police-surveillance.html
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* ACRE report: DHS Open For Business: https://public-accountability.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/ACRE-DHSReport-12.02-1.pdf
  
 
==== Discussion ====
 
==== Discussion ====
Link:  
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https://libraryfreedom.chat/t/cc-4-police-surveillance/1001
  
 
==== Tasks ====  
 
==== Tasks ====  
* Lecture, readings, discussion forum, and final project work
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* Lecture, readings, discussion forum

Latest revision as of 20:26, 12 December 2022

Week 9: Police surveillance and social media[edit]

Overview[edit]

The rise in surveillance technologies over the past 30 years has occurred alongside the increase in mass incarceration and violent policing, especially in Black, poor, and immigrant communities. Thanks to the work of accountability movements, we've learned that police now have access to an unprecedented amount of new surveillance equipment that is often acquired and used without democratic oversight, and with little to no regulation. Police also have new relationships with corporate entities, like Amazon, in mutually beneficial relationships to acquire and deploy more of these surveillance technologies. During the 2020 uprisings for Black lives, we saw many of these capabilities used against protestors in the streets. This week, we'll discuss the landscape of police surveillance and what it means for directly impacted people in our communities. We'll also talk about how the police use social media, as well as other issues with social media and privacy.

Readings[edit]

Discussion[edit]

https://libraryfreedom.chat/t/cc-4-police-surveillance/1001

Tasks[edit]

  • Lecture, readings, discussion forum