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The Reboot from Tech for the People

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  • The Reboot is what happens when a technologist and an anthropologist get together to talk big tech, workers' rights, privacy and more. Every week from Chris Garaffa and Rae Jereza at Tech for the People!
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  • Episode 008: Education and Surveillance Before and During Covid-19

    Episode 008: Education and Surveillance Before and During Covid-19
    Feb 14 2022
    Show Notes

    Music by Angelo Garcia. You can find him on Facebook and Instagram on @agsilver.music.

    Read about CIA data collection here https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senators-cia-has-secret-program-that-collects-american-data/2022/02/10/017b6932-8ad8-11ec-838f-0cfdf69cce3c_story.html


    As schools went online during COVID-19, they implemented more surveillance on students’ online activity https://archive.ph/cH74P. But this is not new! See here https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/first-circuit-affirms-schools-punishment-students-online-social-media-posts and here https://www.computerworld.com/article/2521075/pennsylvania-schools-spying-on-students-using-laptop-webcams--claims-lawsuit.html . It also happens “offline”. Finally, read about student surveillance in higher ed here. https://archive.ph/gZ9Hj

    Surveilling educators for ideas that challenge white supremacy and U.S. empire is also not new. Read about its long history here. https://slate.com/human-interest/2022/01/history-of-spying-on-teachers.html
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    53 mins
  • Episode 007: Crisis Shame Line: Profit, Mental Health & Data Do Not Mix

    Episode 007: Crisis Shame Line: Profit, Mental Health & Data Do Not Mix
    Jan 31 2022
    Rae and Chris discuss the breaking news in Politico on Friday that Crisis Text Line is selling information to an AI-based customer service company that they are also an investor in.

    Read Hannah Zeavin’s excellent piece on the origins of hotlines as a third option, distinct from psychiatric and police intervention: http://somatosphere.net/2020/the-third-choice-suicide-hotlines-psychiatry-and-the-police.html/

    We found Zeavin’s essay from Jack Poulson’s very informative Twitter thread on Crisis Text Line. Read the whole thing here: https://twitter.com/_jack_poulson/status/1487128251319341063

    The NY TImes article Chris mentioned on Deanonymization: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/10/business/location-data-privacy-apps.html

    Finally, here is Politico’s feature on CLT and Loris.ai: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/28/suicide-hotline-silicon-valley-privacy-debates-00002617

    PeerPride is at PeerPride.org.
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    39 mins
  • Episode 006: Web 3: Same Oppressions, New Technology

    Episode 006: Web 3: Same Oppressions, New Technology
    Jan 17 2022
    Episode 6 is here! After a month hiatus, we're back with a new theme song and some thoughts on "Web 3"

    Thanks to Angelo Garcia for writing and producing our soundtrack! He takes commissions. Follow him on Facebook and Instagram @agsilver.music
    Yesterweb’s detailed breakdown of Web3 can be found here: https://yesterweb.org/no-to-web3/index.html
    Read Moxie Marlinspike's (Signal creator) blog post on Web3: https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html
    You can read Molly White’s post, criticizing the idea that it’s still “early days” for Web3 here:
    https://blog.mollywhite.net/its-not-still-the-early-days/
    Rebekah Bastian’s Forbes article on work and Web3: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rebekahbastian/2021/12/22/2022-prediction-the-influence-of-web3-on-the-future-of-work/?sh=5f1c183c4ce4
    Here’s that Medium article on Web3 and “Self-Sovereign Healthcare”:
    https://medium.com/@moosechris/self-sovereign-healthcare-27b2b47e4fb6
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    55 mins
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