hello everybody welcome my name is jeremy and lee i am a committee member here for theorize the web also the treasury i have a phd in russian history which is super useful very useful i can tell you all about it and if you want to know and ideologically harmful to those who encounter it and that attending to the consequences of this configuration and the rationales behind it can help us be aware of harder to detect biases that are increasingly being embedded across the web i'll first give some descriptions of these blocks how people respond to them and the dream that this is a transitional moment and met such blunt forms of blocking assuming a man cerrie it all suggests to the contrary that regional blocking will likely only further be incorporated into a wider platforms when people turn to social media to ask about these blogs the responses they receive often don't make sense or address the conditions on the ground generating consternation among users who feel that they are being forcibly kept out of participating highlighting mistakes of online shopping for personal safety and well being further online marketplaces are not only consumer platforms but also offer opportunities for people to sell their own goods and services in places with limited market demand for particular products or solution that is destined for obsolescence as machine learning based systems develop more sophisticated measures of targeting bad actors one interview be assured me that these systems would facilitate a transition from crude evaluation of risk based on a pool of people lakeview to assessments more directly tied to an individual's behavior reflecting the risk you actually pose and removing the threat of discrimination he went further arguing that identity verification based on behavioral history be a potential vector for financial personalization and many of these systems work by providing behavioral patterns with documentation issued by trusted partners that may be differentially inaccessible to some depending on their location whether that's a national passport or a linkedin profile agency are activated to sport people in two categories of risk and then spores become ethically meaningful indexes of one's character bad outcomes are nothing but the mechanical translation of bad habits and personal failures in this case efforts become especially pernicious as the technology used to limit entry in e commerce can quickly be migrated to an arena even more directly relevant to one's life chances the creators of technology put in place in order to comply with state regulations from one comparing it to local geography for scale two and a half central park's so we can see here the geography of the war on terror mapped with convenient pan and zoom functions rendered in multiple fun colors i save these images a few reviewing their security protocols nevertheless presumably some individual users have changed their security settings straumann now requires that a user register and log on to be more detailed data and they have pledged to with governments their ceo expressed regret that struggling members in the military humanitarian workers and others living abroad may have shared their location in areas without other activity density and in doing so in positions perhaps some are classified perhaps some are even black lit up for curious fitness buffs to find the regular patterns of military patrols in supply routes supplement workouts to car got it up onto the map these heats are the endless laps of military controls the loops of humvees the body heat of empire what should be secure installations instead leaked their data and glow like fireflies these soldier users serve under estr this is governance by app whose developers will transform users into objects of their first chance are blamed because of this treacherous couple the bright spots in the desert right because of empire what's revealed is a private company knowing more than it should stepping into terrain the state reserve for itself so these secrets are revelations more to the western public than to say isis fighters barranca attacked by special forces this is the army which we are not supposed to see fighting in the war which we are not supposed to think thus the map collapses the spatial difference between military positions in yemen and the neighborhood we sit in for the shared technologies that answer to us or that we answer to its java has mapped the geography of the west the geography of empire capital the global heat map is a map of a part of a portion of the internet of strama users who have their privacy settings sent public it is a map of a post national territory compose the right two main sort of alters our conception of living and dying in the book like writer also talks about like this distinction between living and dying through like the types of grace and the folds of managing our population are very law enforcement exchange is you know sharing practices of you know crowd control extrajudicial violence surveillance techniques like all of these i don't really need to go into the examples of you know what we know the american police force this program you learned about crowd control use of force surveillance techniques and so on and so forth and once again like i think this is a really interesting illustration of how steve states can teach violence to one another to uphold power by own power and actually can see really interesting examples on devon springer in their writing has spoken about how they had noticed a lot of parallels between seeing how palestinian activists were surveillance methods and how his kind of like network of activists and men had been seeing very similar experiences so i think an interesting takeaway from this is if we have this understanding  states are able to kind of engage and teach these surveillance tactics and violence tactics with one another like there is always a response to that and i think that there are other solidarity networks that we can see that are being formed in response to that and i to think of how we can kind of form this sort of pressure and sort of like respond to this kind of like engaging action and of course like the idea has those processes in place they're using them you know in order to fulfill in law whatever we think about the law like we should you know to be not in the public sphere but then they take that those technologies and they're moving them into areas where it's no longer about fulfilling the law but is about oh i i want to segment my market in a particular way or oh i and my concern is that as they're incentivized to find as many applications for their technologies as they can for more clients and that some of those are going to go beyond the bounds of legality and into these other murkier areas and in terms of false positives and unite i do hear like not with them jimmy oh in particular but i heard stories you know i think one that was kind of internet largely related to copyright and then also where i don't think this fits your definition where it's censorship applied by the receiving government so that's not but i've seen but you know adjacent to some of the things you're being collected is being used for purposes that we think we understand that some of it's being used for purposes that we really don't understand is the issue really the data is being collected or the issue that the data is being collected and being used for something that we data and do anything with it that they don't understand and i think that's often the case and increasingly the case as we see more and more machine learning and algorithms that nobody really understands how their work and the question to me is not like the data  collected in many ways just by the operations of these systems and it has to be who owns the data and who controls it and there we need to have the political imaginary to think about well what what does that mean even saying something it's like people are aware of the way that surveillance is being used against them so it's not just to me about that understanding but about like what choice people have and about building and kind of ability for identity and dialogue with the people making the system