Data Surveillance and Digital Rights

Feb 18 2020
When: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Where: Ahmanson Lab | Leavey Library, 3rd floor (LVL 301)
Event Type: Workshop

Event Details

In the U.S., the deregulation of the corporate surveillance industry and the executive branch’s disregard for judicial oversight have created institutional juggernauts with outsized power on culture, mind, economy, and society. In this workshop, students will learn about their digital rights, and how they can try to take agency and ownership of their own data.

This workshop is being held in conjuction with the event, "Here’s Looking at You: Interrogating Facial Recognition Tech" featuring Kelly Gates (Communication and Science, Studies, UCSD) and Simone A. Browne (African and African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas, Austin) the following Friday

Speaker Information

Speaker

Samir Ghosh

Assistant Director

Samir Ghosh is the Assistant Director of the Ahmanson Lab. They teach workshops and build projects that span VR/XR and hardware prototyping. They hold degrees in Computational Linguistics and Cognitive Science.