README @ UCLA

@UCLAiS graduate students for digital rights including privacy, security, access, and intellectual freedom within libraries, archives, and information work!

[README @ UCLA @uclareadme]

last year we made a zine about how to make your digital presence a little more private. today "a brief guide to your technological liberation" is now available through the @internetarchive! download, print, and share!

[EFF @EFF]

End-to-end encryption is the best way to protect privacy online. It can't co-exist with a requirement that online services scan everything. https://t.co/9K4BTdFKRb

[Fight for the Future @fightfortheftr]

FFTF deputy director @evan_greer: “Let this be a lesson to other school administrators: if you try to experiment on your campus with racist, invasive surveillance technology, we will come for you. And we don't lose."
https://t.co/4x6Xz57ZPB

[README @ UCLA @uclareadme]

https://t.co/eZzkgzrhOf

[Californians for Consumer Privacy @caprivacyorg]

1/6 This @nytimes article shows why #CCPA is so vital, and why our new initiative #CPRA2020 is even more important. Under #CCPA, you can stop the sale of your personal info, which includes your biometric info.

[README @ UCLA @uclareadme]

ban facial recognition now!

[CNET @CNET]

What if a stranger could snap your picture on the sidewalk then use an app to quickly discover your name and address? A startup called Clearview AI has made that possible. https://t.co/tAd688jfv5

[README @ UCLA @uclareadme]

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[README @ UCLA @uclareadme]

The third open Oversight Committee hearing on the sale and use of commercial facial recognition technology is still happening! Watch via the link below :

[Oversight Dems @OversightDems]

#WatchLIVE Chairwoman @RepMaloney is holding a hearing examining the sale and use of commercial facial recognition technology by private industry, civilians, and government entities. https://t.co/d2mRUcLvjd

[AI Now Institute @AINowInstitute]

“Facial recognition technology is disproportionately deployed by those in power to surveil, oppress and police Black and Brown communities, with few guardrails in place to curtail its oppressive and biased use.” AI Now’s @mer__edith tells @OversightDems during her oral testimony

[erin glass @erinroseglass]

anyone looking for a deeper understanding of how academic libraries have worked to promote critical informtation literacy in students shld look at @EamonTewell’s fantastic article “a decade of critical information literacy”

https://t.co/ZiRZGwIhRW

[README @ UCLA @uclareadme]

mass surveillance, in classrooms and elsewhere, should not be part of the future we’re currently building.

[Ethical EdTech @ethicaledtech]

Our own @erinroseglass is featured in this @washingtonpost article on phone surveillance in higher ed: https://t.co/AIMl65eQij

[README @ UCLA @uclareadme]

we love being in community with folks like @erinroseglass !!!

[erin glass @erinroseglass]

the good news is that there's a growing critical edtech community building/advocating for more just academic tech alternatives/practices - let's amplify their voices!

way too many to list here (😁) but here's a start:

@ethicaledtech @ntnsndr @Autumm @hypervisible (cont..)

[Privacy Project @PrivacyProject]

We obtained a file holding more than 50 billion location pings from the phones of more than 12 million Americans as they moved through several major cities. We spent months sifting through the information. Here’s what we learned, and why it alarmed us. https://t.co/Gqu0J7QgnB

[Stop LAPD Spying Coalition @stoplapdspying]

Don't miss @stoplapdspying meeting on Data Driven Policing tomorrow (Tues Nov 26) at 6 PM. @LACANetwork 838 E. 6th St., LA 90021. Be a thought and action partner in our journey toward abolishing this violent and racist system! @tiffanyruns @GrassrootsJrg

[README @ UCLA @uclareadme]

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[README @ UCLA @uclareadme]

❤️ @LibraryFreedom !!

[School For Poetic Computation @sfpc]

Announcing Code Societies Winter 2020

Applications now open for:
⤳ SFPC's Winter Intensive Jan 6 - Jan 25
⤳ Read more here: https://t.co/sH7lzz4OYC

Code Societies is organized by @melanie_hoff @netabomani & @doodybrains

[EFF @EFF]

Aaron Swartz would have turned 33 this week.

Join EFF at @AaronSwartzDay today to carry on the work that he started. #FOIAPALOOZA https://t.co/SJZL2ZXpgM