Resisting Public Space Surveillance: Fostering privacy and anonymity in the age of mass video and facial recognition surveillance

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Workshop: Resisting public space surveillance: Fostering privacy and anonymity in the age of mass video and facial recognition surveillance.

Who: Santiago Narváez, R3D

Date: Tuesday, October 6

Time: 1pm EDT / 5pm UTC+0

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Surveillance technology in the public space is being used for illegitimate purposes such as to dissuade social protests. The unliability of facial recognition survillance have led to the wrong detention of innocent people, having a disparate impact on female, non-caucasian, trans or non-binary population. Join us to explore how we can expose and fight back this use of public space surveillance.

When the need to fight back public space surveillance becomes primal there are many possible paths to resist: legal actions, advocacy, between others. Join us for this dynamic workshop lead by Santiago Narváez who will help us collectively answer:

• How can we resist?
• Do we even need public space surveillance as it is today?
• How can we analyse public space surveillance systems and fight back their normalization?
• Can we reinvent public space surveillance?
• What limits and controls could we establish to attain surveillance systems that effectively protect our rights and be effective pursuing legitimate aims?

// We will be hosting a 25 minute post-workshop networking exercise to allow folks to meet others who share their interest, and strengthen collaborations across various lines. Make sure to schedule in 25 minutes extra on your calendar, if you are interested in joining //

Santiago Narváez is a researcher at R3D, based in Mexico City which focuses on defending digital rights in Mexico. Narvaez surveils the people that are surveilling us, by researching privacy and surveillance. When he is not doing requests for information or analyzing databases, he composes music and plays mid field in R3D soccer team.

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Notes

What is a public space. Pubic space means non exclusion of people and alsol where you conduct political activities Gather ,protest, and showe their public opinion.

Risk and anti-social behavior.

instead of being use to fight crime .

HOW DO WE RESIST

avoidance strategies. avoiding glaze of public place surveillance.

Public spaces are not tied to a certain area but places where people gather to shar their ideas

Surveillance is a prioritizer of public space. Punishing margialized populations. reducing inequalities