A Virtual Tour of Surveillance Technology at the U.S.-Mexico Border
A Building a Global, Equitable, and Just Internet Infrastructure event, presented in conjunction with NWMEDIA198: Building A Sustainable Internet, with generous support from the Berkeley Economy & Society Initiative (BESI)
with Dave Maass
Director of Investigations, Electronic Frontier Foundation
In pursuing its agenda of security theater, the U.S. government has turned the border into the main stage for debuting its 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.
About Dave Maass
Dave Maass is Director of Investigations at the non-profit Electronic Frontier Foundation, leading research into police surveillance and technology at the U.S.-Mexico border. He also is a scholar in residence at the University of Nevada, Reno, Reynolds School of Journalism, where he manages the AtlasofSurveillance.org project. Prior to joining EFF, Dave worked as a reporter for alternative news weeklies across the Southwest.
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