Eyes From The Street

• Report (Listen): Privacy and Paternalism: The Ethics of Student Data Collection by Kathleen Creel & Tara Dixit
• Website: Atlas of Surveillance by Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Book Chapter: "Weapons of Math Destruction, Ch.5: Civilian Casualties" by Cathy O'Neil
• Website: "White Collar Crime Risk Zones" by Brian Clifton, Sam Lavigne & Francis Tseng

• Search through public records on sites likeMuckRock, USASpending, Atlas of Surveillance, or a local library or archive! Gather anything interesting to you and notice the absence of anything potentially interesting to you. Write up a FOIA request, use the MuckRock tool if you'd like for anything you want to bring to light which isn't already available. Reflect on your experience briefly in the class notes.
• Peruse the above or an open data repository like NYC Open Data and find a dataset you may like to work with next week.

• Website: "Inside the NYPD’s Surveillance Machine" by Amnesty International
• Report: "Decode Surveillance NYC" by Amnesty International
• Article: "We Hunted Hidden Police Signals at the DNC" by Dhruv Mehrotra (Wired)

• Pull and "clean" a .csv or handmade dataset with LibreCalc or your data analysis tool of choice then visualize it with Datawrapper
• Create a short >5 minute pitch for your final project to share next class

• Book: "Means of Control, Ch.1" by Byron Tau
• Blog Post: Investigations of Google Street View
• Website: 1 S33 YOU
• Blog Post: Sniffing car tire (TPMS) data (and tracking cars)
• Podcast: The Everywhere Border

• Gather all the sources you find relevant to your potential final project into an accesible form like a are.na page, online pad, or blog post. Think of this as an annotated bibliography for both your purposes and for sharing what you found with others in a straightforward form ahead of the final.
• Bonus! Warwalk near government buildings and make note of any network patterns you observe or browse Wigle to virtally warwalk those zones.

• "Race After Technology, Introduction" by Ruha Benjamin
• Domestic Tension by Wafaa Bilal
• EFF Border Surveillance Zine
• G.A.N.G.S Coalition Call
• The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work

A work, completed or in-progress, of any form (zine, video art, sound piece, so on) which accessibly communicates your research and responses towards a paticular mechanism of state surveillance. You are encouraged to share a bit about your piece at the school-wide shareout event on 4/30.