This session is facilitated by Lucy Harris, Christos Bacharakis, Abby Cabunoc Mayes
About this session
“If the digital future is to be our home, then it is we who must make it so.” - Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Join Founder and Chairwoman Mitchell Baker to help evaluate how Mozilla can be bolder, broader and bigger in our efforts to thwart the surveillance economy.
The Internet is where we work, love, build, and communicate. It’s also where corporations follow our every action, collecting data in order to predict and influence our behavior. The result is an ever widening power asymmetry between those watching and those being watched – and between business bottom lines and human benefit.
In our increasingly ‘datafied’ society, how can we put human benefit and agency first?
This workshop will solicit insights into how the surveillance economy affects our lives today. Looking out a few years, we’ll think through what new developments and trends might come into play. We’ll end by sketching out potential solutions we might test, and create a map of the ‘rebel alliance’ of organizations, companies, and people doing impactful work today.
Goals of this session
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Better understand how the surveillance economy affects our lives today and how this might change over a mid-term horizon
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Think through solutions and actions that could bring about positive change
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Better understand what novel and impactful solutions are available or in development today, and by whom