This community-driven in presentation examines how major technology companies like Google and Facebook create predictive user profiles to influence behavior creating a power differential between corporations and society. The goal is to raise public awareness around Surveillance Capitalism — a situation that is not an inevitable feature of modern technology and changeable through civic engagement.
I will cover how these systems work, why they matter for future generations, and what individuals and communities can do to push back against corporate practices that prioritize profit over people.
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