Digital power & Social control : Public Meeting 12th May, Wg
Saturday, 25 April 2015, 9:09 am Press Release: OASIS
Digital power & Social control : Public Meeting 12th
May, Wgtn
The State and corporations have
ever increasing data about us, while we know less and less
about what they are doing.
Come and join the discussion
about collection of personal data, how we can resist this
shifting form of social control and understand what’s
going on.
Tuesday, 12 May, 6pm
St John's Church Hall (corner of Dixon
and Willis Streets, Te Aro)
Speakers:
Thomas
Beagle, Tech Liberty Sandra Grey, Senior Lecturer,
VUW
OASIS on What we know about Five Eyes
And
The launch of the What If? Campaign
What If? is
a new grassroots education and action campaign working to
stop data collection and sharing by the NZ State and private
corporations for the purposes of social control and
exploitation, and working for community control of
information resources for the benefit of
all.
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