Presented at
HOPE 2020 Virtual Rescheduled,
July 31, 2020, 5 p.m.
(90 minutes)
Our smartphones listen to our conversations even when they’re not on. GPS tracks us even when we know where we’re going. Our credit cards track all of our purchases. The cameras in our computers watch us. Maybe the camera in our smart TVs watch us too. We go through life sending out little electronic messages revealing everything we say, everywhere we go, everything we buy, and everyone we talk to. Artificial intelligence claims it can predict our actions and even our thoughts before we have them. It claims it can influence what we do and even how we vote. Is this the world of interconnectedness we dreamed of 25 years ago at the dawn of the Internet age? How can we control it instead of having it predict our moves and nudging us?
https://wiki.hope.net/index.php?title=Surveillance_Capitalism_workshop
Presenters:
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Micky Metts
**Micky Metts** is involved in the “free software for community building” movement and the platform cooperativism movement. She helps Agaric LLC of Boston’s work contribute back to these movements. She also handles some administrative tasks, public outreach, and support as part of the team. She is a worker/owner of Agaric and a member of the “free software for community building” movement, using tools like Drupal, BigBlueButton video chat servers, and GNU/Linux. Micky helps people use free software and the Internet to take control of their online presence and stay safe. She started building vibrant online communities in 1996 by building one of the first and largest role playing HTML chat sites on the Internet and hosting one of the first peer-to-peer text-based hacker chat rooms for people to learn HTML, as well as being a pioneer in online video chat servers and creating an early site like YouTube in 1997.
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