Institutes, Museums, Research Groups and More!
UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, C2i2.
Interdisciplinary, intersectional research center committed to reimagining technology; championing social, racial, and economic justice; and, strengthening democracy with culture-making and public policy work.
eBooks
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, by ISBN: 9781610395694Date: 2019Online book, from Ebsco.
The first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism" and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior, with startling insights by Shoshana Zuboff. With little resistance from law or society, surveillance capitalism is on the verge of dominating the social order and shaping the digital future -- if we let it.
Permanent Record by Call Number: https://bit.ly/3phboZOISBN: 9781250237248Date: 2019Online book, available from MANY public libraries, including the Los Angeles County Library, Santa Monica Public Library, and more. As an e-book or audiobook. Not at UCLA, though Call Number hyperlink is to LA County to get a free e-card if you live in LA County and check book out for 7-21 days!
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.
Surveillance and Property
Amazing Mind Reader Reveals His 'Gift'
(Duval Guillaume, Sept 24, 2012, 2:28 mins.)
Publications of All Kinds
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Amazon's Accent Recognition Technology Could Tell the Government Where You're From (Bell Lin, The Intercept, Nov 15, 2018)
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Another website is broadcasting your personal info to anyone who searches your name (Kate Irby, Miami Herald, May 12, 2017)
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Art projects about privacy, computer vision, and surveillance (Adam Harvey, 2020)
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Atlas of Surveillance: Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities with Open Source Research (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
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The big biz of spying on little kids (Stephanie Simon, Politico, May 15, 2014)
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Do I Need an RFID-Blocking Sleeve for My Credit Card? (Stacy Johnson, MoneyTalks, Feb 10, 2020)
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Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software (Switching.software)
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"The Goal is to Automate Us": Welcome to the Age of Surveillance Capitalism (John Naughton, The Guardian, Jan. 20, 2019)
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How to use Facebook privacy settings (Thomas Germain, Consumer Reports, Oct 7, 2020)
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Security Education Companion (Electronic Frontier Foundation: Surveillance Self-defense). Free resource for digital security educators.
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Social media’s silent filter (Sarah T. Roberts, The Atlantic, March 8, 2017)
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Surveillance Giants: How the Business Model of Google and Facebook Threatens Human Rights (Amnesty International, 2019)
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Twelve million phones, one dataset, zero privacy (Stuart A. Thompson, NY Times, Dec 19, 2019)
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Twisted Toys: Exposes the surveillance, exploitation and risk in the digital world for children (Giovanna Mascheroni & Andra Siibak)
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White Collar Crime Risk Zones. White Collar Crime Risk Zones uses machine learning to predict where financial crimes are mostly likely to occur across the USA.
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Wrongfully Arrested Because Face Recognition Can't Tell Black People Apart (Victoria Burton-Harris & Philip Mayor, ACLU, June 24, 2020)
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Your Amazon Echo Will Share Your Wireless Network With Neighbors, Unless You Opt Out (Laurel Wamsley, NPR, June 4, 2021)
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Inside the Suspicion Machine: Obscure government algorithms are making life-changing decisions about millions of people around the world. Here, for the first time, we reveal how one of these systems works. (Wired, March 6, 2023)
Collections: Podcasts, Reports, Videos
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The End of Privacy as we Know it? (The Daily, NY Times, Feb. 10, 2020)
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Governments are Spying on the People Who Bring Us the News (CounterSpin, FAIR, Janine Jackson, July 31, 2021)
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How Tech Companies Track Your Every Move and Put Your Data Up for Sale (Dave Davies, Fresh Air:NPR, July 31, 2019, 36 mins.)
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Right to be Forgotten (Molly Webster & Bethel Habte, WNYC Studios: Radiolab, Aug 23, 2019, 50:21 mins.)
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We Were Warned: The Climate Emergency and the Surveillance State (Intercepted, Jeremy Scahill, Sept. 25, 2019)
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Wrongfully accused by Facial Recognition and an Algorithm (The Daily, NY Times, Aug. 3, 2020)
- Surveillance Giants: How the Business Model of Google and Facebook Threatens Human Rights (Amnesty International, 2019)
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Coded Bias by Shalini Kantayya (2020) Netflix
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In the Age of AI (Frontline, Nov. 5, 2019)
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John Oliver on Facial Recognition (Last Week Tonight, June 15, 2020)
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The Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus on PBS Frontline. (2 part documentary, 2023)
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Bad Input (Three short videos by Consumer Reports, that look at how biases in algorithms and data sets result in unfair practices for communities of color, often without their knowledge, 2023)
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Search Engine Breakdown: Are Algorithms Racist and Sexist? (NOVA PBS, 20:34)