Disaster surveillance capitalism

"Over 2,000 security cameras, 551 motion detectors, and 5,400 electronic door-locks are nestled across Michigan State University’s sprawling campus.

The data they collect — from over 26,600 sources in total — all goes to one room."

statenews.com/article/2024...

"What does it mean to be seen? To be watched? Are there consequences for collapsing the two? Observed: Hypervisibility and Reclamation explores the contradictions we face when surveillance is conflated with safety . . .".

Join us for a Roundtable on April 17th!

exhibits.haverford.edu/observed/

Not surprised by any of this. I have said several times to folks that things I was speaking about would end up in a marketing email or on my social media feeds. Smh, it's infuriating though.

"There’s a valid business reason the company is working with OpenAI: Dropbox doesn’t have its own chatbot"
I'm sorry, this is a problem how? Not everything needs to have a chatbot, and not everything needs to be "pOwErEd By AI"
You're storage, just store things, jfc
Protect yo shit