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Join Joseph A. Camilleri as he explores state surveillance, China's social credit system, and the secret player in Egypt's intelligence infrastructure. Discover the implications of communications surveillance and facial recognition in the age of cyberspace.
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Navigating Life in the Age of Cyberspace LECTURE 2: 10 SEPTEMBER 2019 Joseph A. Camilleri
State Surveillance • China’s Social Credit System • Inside The Secret Player In Egypt's Intelligence Infrastructure https://privacyinternational.org/video/1631/video-inside-secret-player-egypts-intelligence-infrastructure • Communications Surveillance https://privacyinternational.org/video/1624/video-what-communications-surveillance • Facial Recognition https://privacyinternational.org/explainer-graphic/2725/facial-recognition-cameras-explainer • Sleepwalking into a Surveillance State
AS OF 2017 Facebook: 2 billion users – 66% use it every day – Number of users growing at 18% a year – market capitalisation of $445 billion Youtube: Facebook’s biggest rival for logged-in users, owned by its deadly rival Alphabet (the company formerly known as Google): 1.5 billion monthly users. WhatsApp: 1.2 billion users Messenger: 1.2 billion users Instagram: 700 million users WeChat(Chinese app): 889 million users All owned by Facebook
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Personal Website Joseph A Camilleri http://www.josephcamilleri.org/content/navigating-life-age-cyberspace
Books of Interest • Future Histories by Lizzie O’Shea (Verso 2019) • The Attention Merchants: From the Daily Newspaper to Social Media, How Our Time and Attention Is Harvested and Sold by Tim Wu (Atlantic 2017). • Chaos Monkeys: Inside the Silicon Valley Money Machine by Antonio García Martínez (Ebury 2017). • Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google and Amazon have Cornered Culture and What It Means for All of Us by Jonathan Taplin (Macmillan 2017).
Shoshana Zuboff The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (2019) Endless stream of presentations, keynote addresses, radio & television interviews, podcasts, articles, and much else. A sample: www.shorturl.at/kxzBJ About Zuboff: https://www.shoshanazuboff.com/new/about/
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power Interview on Democracy Now 2 March 2019 Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo6K-bPh39M
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power Interview with Naomi Klein 1 March 2019 https://youtu.be/2s4Y-uZG5zk?t=2816