Roundtable Discussion: Refusal of Surveillance Tech, Part 1

Sponsored by the Berkeley Algorithmic Fairness & Opacity Working Group (AFOG).

In this two-part roundtable, we will build on discussions started at the Refusal Conference last summer where we dug into the idea of rejecting or refusing technology which so often runs against the grain of the celebrated role technology has generally occupied in the West (Marx 1997), wedded closely to the notion of progress itself. The roundtable discussions will specifically focus on the recent refusals and resistance to facial recognition technologies as part of an effort to understand them, draw lessons from them, and put this moment in conversation and context. In this first panel we will explore this up swell of resistance to facial recognition to understand what is happening in the current moment.

The second panel will take place on April 26, 2021 from 10:30 am – 12:15 pm.

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