Berkeley Center for New Media (not EFF) will host this event. EFF Director of Investigations Dave Maass will be speaking.
From the Organizers:
In pursuing its agenda of security theater, the U.S. government has turned the border into the main stage for debuting new and invasive surveillance technologies. These technologies are ineffective and wasteful, but borderland communities ultimately pay the highest price with their civil liberties and human rights. In this interactive session, EFF's Dave Maass will introduce the wide varieties of border technologies that surround us, from spy blimps in our skies to the surveillance towers above our parks, from the license plate readers on our roads to the footstep sensors buried in the ground. You will not only learn how to identify this technology, you will also practice spotting it using Google Streetview using your laptops or smart phones.
When:
Thursday, March 19
Time: 5:00 pm PT
Where:
Latinx Research Center
2547 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA
Cost:
Optional Donation
Event Requirements:
None
About the Participants:
Dave Maass, EFF Director of Investigations
As investigations director, Dave researches surveillance technology in policing and at the U.S.-Mexico border. He leads the Atlas of Surveillance project in partnership with the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he is a Reynolds Scholar in Residence. Dave is a life-long muckraker/noisemaker who joined EFF in 2013, just before the Snowden revelations. In addition to leading deep-dive investigations, Dave coordinates large-scale public records campaigns, advocates on state legislation, and compiles The Foilies, EFF's annual tongue-in-cheek awards for outrageous responses to FOIA requests. He sometimes represents EFF in digital rights-themed cosplay at Dragon Con, and he edited EFF's first science fiction collection, Pwning Tomorrow. He also researches virtual reality as part of the team that developed Spot the Surveillance, EFF's first VR experience and a winner of the 2018 Journalism 360 Challenge.
About Berkeley Center for New Media:
The Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) is a focal point for research and teaching about new media, led by a highly trans-disciplinary community of 120 affiliated faculty, advisors, and scholars, from 35 UC Berkeley departments, including Architecture, Philosophy, Film & Media, History of Art, Performance Studies, and Music; the Schools of Engineering, Information, Journalism, and Law; and the Berkeley Art Museum. BCNM is located at a global center for design and information technology and based in a public research university known for alternative thinking.
The Berkeley Center for New Media is an interdisciplinary research center that studies and shapes media transition and emergence from diverse perspectives. Through critical thinking and making, we cultivate technological equity and fairness in our classrooms, in our communities, and on the internet.
This event is organized not by EFF, but by Berkeley Center for New Media.
