#ColorOfSurveillance
At #ColorofSurveillance at Georgetown, listening to data workers talk about how they found out that their work facilitated violence, genocide, arrests and that they can't know when they get the tasks. More at data-workers.org.
November 18, 2024 at 7:19 PM
@hypervisible.bsky.social notes this recent news about Amazon driver eyeglasses connected to his concept of “luxury surveillance”
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November 18, 2024 at 8:54 PM
Streaming the #ColorOfSurveillance conference today and here’s a poetry piece I created from the first prompt.

I can feel their eyes on me, but I don’t know what could it possibly be this time?
Is it the hair or my face?
November 18, 2024 at 3:59 PM
There's live-streaming for some of the sessions tomorrow..I'm looking forward to it.
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November 17, 2024 at 4:54 PM
Here's a look at local wins across the country by @Sheeyahshee on @EFF's blog (including @OaklandPrivacy @SeattlePrivacy @stoplapdspying and a lot more) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/12/communities-coast-coast-fight-control-over-police-surveillance #colorofsurveillance
Communities from Coast to Coast Fight for Control Over Police Surveillance: 2017 in Review
Americans in 2017 lived under a threat of constant surveillance, both online and offline. While the battle to curtail unaccountable and unconstitutional NSA surveillance continued this year with only limited opportunities appearing in Congress, the struggle to secure community control over...
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November 4, 2024 at 7:19 PM
Thanks so much @alvarombedoya and @GeorgetownCPT for a truly exceptional day - #ColorofSurveillance
November 16, 2024 at 7:53 PM
"Without whistleblowers, you get a Hoover FBI" #ColorofSurveillance
August 6, 2025 at 5:40 PM
FBI's James Baker citing FISA court as example of the excellent oversight in place for surveillance. dude's got jokes. #ColorofSurveillance
August 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
She quotes John McDonald in saying that surveillance is like corruption - everyone is against it, because it is amorphous. #ColorofSurveillance
November 18, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Khadijah Abdurahman opens the last #ColorofSurveillance panel by encouraging folks who care about this work to transfer material resources - to Logic(s) (logicmag.io), to Refugees in Libya (www.refugeesinlibya.org), to folks fleeing Gaza.
Refugees in Libya | human rights
Fighting impunity in Libya and Europe. - HumanRights - RefugeesinLibya
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November 18, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Like @profmgilman has been a tireless advocate in this space. Khiara Bridges has cautioned how too much of our focus is on affluent people. Too much of privacy law is "privacy for middle class white dudes." A congressional #ColorOfSurveillance hearing would be useful.
October 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The #Colorofsurveillance remains relevant. We continue to craft privacy rules for the white middle class, but they aren’t the community most concerned about and in need of privacy protections.
October 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Major props to @alvarombedoya @gabriellexgem and everyone at @GeorgetownCPT for a superb #colorofsurveillance conference!

First time attending in person, and it’s amazing how the day brings home the lived experiences of real people and how meaningful privacy can be! #inspired
October 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Well, I think @hirevue needs to do some outreach to privacy advocates and the civil rights community, because they’ve become a punchline at #ColorOfSurveillance...
October 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
“Surveillance in the workplace makes it impossible to organize...we already give up so many rights when we enter the workplace door...this lessons the voices of workers in our democracy.” #colorofsurveillance
October 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
“Profit and control are so much about how the [trucking] industry is regulated.” @anxiousannieb discusses how the autonomy of drivers has been diminished by surveillance technology at #colorofsurveillance.
October 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
“I know you’re all gonna sleep well tonight knowing @LastBlockbuster cannot reveal your video rental records.”

So, yeah, the VPPA is sort of a useless law: #ColorofSurveillance
October 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
“I’m fortunate enough to claim the mortgage interest deduction. Not once has the IRS visited me.” Instead, IRS audits go after the poor and people taking the EIC. #ColorOfSurveillance
October 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
“The poor have NEVER had a reasonable expectation of privacy in this country.” Michele Gilman is taking a sledgehammer to Fourth Amendment REoPs at #ColorOfSurveillance.
October 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
"Thin-tin line" between you and the street. @GotNoPlace discusses growth in laws that forbid living in your car. "The last place you can lock your doors." #ColorOfSurveillance
October 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
.@GotNoPlace highlights three ever-growing privacy threats to homeless:

(1) Growing criminalization of homelessness
(2) Lack of legal rights to challenge searches of tents/vehicles
(3) Reqs that you give up any privacy in areas homeless can lawfully be.

#ColorofSurveillance
October 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
"I like art that points fingers," says @msknee. Wonderful manifesto for how art can convey messages and shine a light on problems. #ColorOfSurveillance
October 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The benefit amount to SNAP recipients is minuscule compared to the money we give to government contractors to run these systems with no accountability, highlights @msknee at #ColorOfSurveillance.
October 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
"Powerful people have long agreed that poor and working people must be surveilled. This idea is older than J. Edgar Hoover," opens @alvarombedoya at #ColorOfSurveillance.

(So excited to be able to attend in person for the first time!)
October 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM