[HacktionLab] Politics of digital surveillance @Breaking the frame July 9-12th

[Mike Harris]

we may have a little to put towards it too, perhaps we could split?

Mike.

El 26/06/2015 a les 16:49, Jim Killock ha escrit:
> I can ask - I don’t think they have a lot of money tho.
>
>> On 26 Jun 2015, at 16:48, Mike Harris <mike at mbharris.co.uk
>> <mailto:mike at mbharris.co.uk>> wrote:
>>
>> p.s. any budget for someone to come, expenses etc Jim?
>>
>> El 26/06/2015 a les 14:47, Jim Killock ha escrit:
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> I’d be really interested to know if you’re intending to go and
>>> discuss these issues. I’m hoping to be there but I think it’s also
>>> important to have a wide range of activists who know about digital
>>> tech issues to help the discussion along.
>>>
>>> The event is  July 9-12 2015, Unstone Grange, Derbyshire, do let me
>>> know if you’ll be going.
>>>
>>>
>>> /*The politics of digital surveillance: can we resist the digital
>>> Panopticon?*/
>>>
>>> Digital technologies have many empowering features: they can create,
>>> process and store ever vaster amounts of information. However they
>>> are also enabling vast surveillance, both state and corporate.
>>> Corporations are using personal data to monetise our behaviour in a
>>> process of enclosure, through capturing personal data and control of
>>> “cloud” services. Is digital surveillance just the natural end
>>> result of placing powerful technology in the hands of vested
>>> interests? Does the state view digital information as a means of
>>> controlling risk, and see absence of data as a risk in itself? How
>>> do the state and corporations collude, and to what extent are there
>>> interest different? 
>>>
>>> Most vitally of all, what are the strategies to resist or roll back
>>> digital surveillance? Can we use legal, social and personal change
>>> as tools? Will more whistleblowers like Edward Snowden help? Must we
>>> simply assume that power through surveillance will grow inexorably,
>>> and if so, how bad will the results be? Are the public and activists
>>> fully aware of the scale of the threats?
>>>
>>> We want experts, campaigners and users to discuss these questions in
>>> a workshop format. Everyone is invited on an equal basis to discuss
>>> these questions.
>>>
>>>  www.breakingtheframe.org.uk/ <http://www.breakingtheframe.org.uk/>
>>>
>>>
>>> Jim Killock
>>> jim at killock.org.uk <mailto:jim at killock.org.uk>
>>> +44 7894498127
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>>>
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