Surveillance Capitalism workshop

My smart phone listens to my conversations even when it is not on. My GPS tracks me even when I know where I’m going. My credit cards track all my purchases. The camera in my computer watches me. Maybe the camera in my smart TV watches me too. I go through life sending out little electronic messages revealing everything I say, everywhere I go, everything I buy, and everyone I talk to. Artificial Intelligence claims it can predict my actions and even my thoughts before I have them. It claims it can influence what I do and even how I vote. Is this the world of interconnectedness we dreamed of 25 years ago at the dawn of the internet age? How can we control it instead of it predicting our moves and nudging us?

Resource links:

• http://agaric.coop
• https://freescholar.net
• https://agaric.coop/blog/resources-preventing-digital-world-nineteen-eighty-four
• https://platform.coop

Slides

File:SuveillanceCapitalism-Slides.pdf

Shared Notes

These shared notes come from the Friday workshop

Links of interest from FreeScholar:

 * https://agaric.coop/resources
 * https://freescholar.net/resources
 * https://agaric.coop/blog/resources-preventing-digital-world-nineteen-eighty-four

William Barr announces Orwellian Pre-Crime Program

Here is a direct link to a document about predictive scanning of citizens for mental illness, written by William Barr the US Attorney General. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6509496-Attorney-General-Memo-Implementation-of-National.html

Alternatives To Zoom

• BigBlueButton.org
  • https://wiki.meet.coop/wiki/BigBlueButton
  • Hosting Provider for BBB (Europe )
• Jitsi meet - http://meet.mayFirst.org

Organizations with tons of resources to ethical tools:

• Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF.org
  • Surveillance Self-Defense from the EFF
• Free Software Foundation FSF.org
• GNU GNU.org

More information about Micky Metts' Work

• https://agaric.coop/blog/daily-business-operations-using-free-software
• http://agaric.coop
• http://freescholar.net
• https://communityBridge.com
• http://massmesh.net

Platforms created by Agaric.coop

Platforms created by Agaric.coop with input from community members and other coops:

• http://finditcambridge.org
• http://drutopia.org

Repositories:

• https://github.com/drutopia/drutopia
• https://gitlab.com/find-it-program-locator/findit

We build in the open and welcome people joining our repos!

Ring Doorbells are evil

Question: Is there an alternative that doesn't send your video to a company?
Daveed Answered: RaspberryPi with a Camera

• Instructables How-To
• Video demo

Email Provider Information

https://dismail.de/serverlist.html

Ultrasonic Tracking

• https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/block-ultrasonic-tracking-apps/
• https://www.pindrop.com/blog/silently-tracking-users-with-ultrasonic-beacons/
• https://hackaday.com/2017/05/04/ultrasonic-tracking-beacons/

Bluetooth Beacons

• https://blog.beaconstac.com/2019/11/powerful-takeaways-from-beacon-use-cases/

For Further Exploration

The Merchants of Cool - Douglas Rushkoff -- PBS Frontline Documentary

Polis-- a real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.