We know what you did last summer: An introduction to life at the surveillance company

Wednesday 21.9.2022, 19:30

Free admission.

The smartphone, the smart home, the smart city, the smart car, security cameras, the development of artificial intelligence, and our daily use of apps and social networks have led to surveillance and monitoring technology penetrating every aspect of our lives - at home, at work, in schools, in public spaces, and in our leisure lives. These technologies have the ability to provide us with security, pleasure, and comfort. But they also harm us as individuals and as a community.

The Institute for Positive Technology - an activist and critical research institute that examines the role and uses of surveillance technology in contemporary society - invites the audience to a workshop in which we will learn through experience about life in a surveillance society, and experiment with tools that will allow us to understand the technologies and work with them more safely.

Among the topics covered in the workshop:

• What is surveillance? Where does it occur and what does it serve?

• The good and bad of tracking

• How is data collected - and for what purpose?

• How to reduce the harms of surveillance

The basic premise of the Institute for Positive Technology is that by developing broad public awareness of the social dangers that come with technology, its benefits can be enhanced, turning the worrying into the familiar, the complicated into the understandable, and the negative into the positive.