*How a New Generation Is Combatting Digital Surveillance*
/
//Younger voices are using technology to respond to the needs of
marginalized communities and nurture Black healing and liberation./
Payton Croskey Kenia Hale Nate File
June 2, 2022
We’ve generally come to accept that our devices are listening to our
conversations
<https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/amazons-alexa-never-stops-listening-to-you/>,
our personal data is being tracked and sold
<https://www.wired.com/story/wired-guide-personal-data-collection/>, and
that law enforcement tracks and stores images of our own faces
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/12/technology/facial-recognition-police.html>.
But is there anything to be done about our dwindling digital privacy?
While there is a growing community of people committed to protecting our
privacy online, a new lab at Princeton University pays particular
attention to the challenges and threats that Black and other
marginalized people face under our digital surveillance state.
Kenia Hale, a predoctoral fellow, and Payton Croskey, a rising senior,
are members of Princeton’s Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab
<https://www.thejustdatalab.com/>, where they research ways people of
color can resist this surge of digital surveillance. The lab, created
and led by sociologist Ruha Benjamin
<https://aas.princeton.edu/people/ruha-benjamin>, “brings together
students, educators, activists and artists to develop a critical and
creative approach to data conception, production and circulation,” and
aims to “rethink and retool the relationship between stories and
statistics, power and technology, justice and data.”
Hale and Croskey led a project this spring called “Liberatory Technology
and Digital Marronage.”
<https://www.thejustdatalab.com/tools-1/liberatory-technology-and-digital-marronage>
Their team researched various technologies that reject and subvert the
growing prevalence of digital surveillance, as well as technologies
creating refuges from mainstream digital society. They compiled their
findings into a zine
<https://www.flipsnack.com/EBC8CD77C6F/liberatory-technology-zine.html>
and online repository
<https://github.com/kenia-hale/Liberatory-Technology-Digital-Marronage>,
and are developing an app, Our Space, built off of their work.
/Boston Review /Black Voices in the Public Sphere Fellow Nate File
<https://bostonreview.net/authors/nate-file/> spoke with Hale and
Croskey about their research, the possibilities of technologies that
respond to the needs of marginalized people, and the red flag of any
digital technology claiming to be neutral.
[...]
continua qui:
https://bostonreview.net/articles/how-a-new-generation-is-combatting-digital-surveillance/
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