The YouTube video ‘You Will Wish You Watched This Before You Started Using Social Media’ uses video excerpts from interviews and speeches to illustrate the negative consequences of the surveillance capitalist interests of social media corporations, including scientifically proven psychological consequences such as addiction, depression, and loss of concentration. It Read more…
Electronic Frontier Foundation (2022): Surveillance Self-Defense. Tips, Tools and How-tos for Safer Online Communications “Surveillance Self-Defense (SSD) is a guide to protecting yourself from electronic surveillance for people all over the world. Some aspects of this guide will be useful to people with very little technical knowledge, while others are Read more…
The Pennsylvanis State University – Penn State (2022): Digital Shred. Privacy Literacy Toolkit. The toolkit contains lesson plans, learning objects and much more for use in the classroom. It provides practical tips on privacy (smartphone, web browsing, social networking, productivity & organization, health & wearables, smart home), informs about current Read more…
Der Landesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit Rheinland-Pfalz (2022): Youngdata, Mainz. Youngdata is the youth portal of the independent data protection authorities of the federal and state governments, as well as the canton of Zurich. It is aimed at children and young people and provides them with information on Read more…
Privacy International (2016-2017): Privacy-Courses. Advocacy Assembly. 4 videos provide an overview of the foundations and principles of the right to privacy, an overview of the state of research, the issue of data and surveillance, and the risks of data-intensive systems. Advocacy Assembly is a free digital learning platform with courses Read more…
KairUs (2020): Suspicious Behavior. A Data Annotation Tutorial. The project “Suspicious Behavior” (2020) by the media art duo Linda Kronman and Andreas Zingerle provides an impressive insight into a world in which artificial intelligences are trained to automatically recognize suspicious situations and distinguish “normal” from “abnormal” behavior. In a tutorial, Read more…
3sat (2020): Google & Co.: Im Netz des Neokapitalismus – Teil 1, 19:33 Min. (verfügbar bis 07.09.2025) In the first part of this two-part video series on surveillance capitalism, Scobel describes how digitalization has changed capitalism and society. He explains the prehistory of surveillance capitalism and draws a bow from Read more…
PrivacyTools (o.J.): PrivacyTools.io. PrivacyTools provides services, tools and knowledge to protect your privacy against global mass surveillance. PrivacyTools bietet Dienstleistungen, Werkzeuge und Wissen, um die Privatsphäre vor der globalen Massenüberwachung zu schützen.
Knetsch, Gabriele (2019): Big Data – oder die Vermessung des Individuums. Radiofeature (53:06 Min.), gesendet am 15. Mai auf Bayern 2. In her radio feature “Big Data – oder die Vermessung des Individuums” for Bayerischer Rundfunk on January 18, 2019, author Gabriele Knetsch explores the question of whether the dystopia Read more…
NDR (2021): China: Überwachungsstaat oder Zukunftslabor? Sendung vom 31. Mai (44:05 Min., verfügbar bis 31.5.2022). The report by Tamara Anthony, Mathias Bölinger, Svea Eckert and Daniel Satra describes the practice of data collection in China and shows how citizens’ behavior is monitored by control centers (“brains”) in all city districts Read more…