We started teasing out all the levels of the way we actually criminalize young people by having surveillance. We started thinking about who’s in charge of this and who’s really pushing this through, and it was both acutely. Well, it was acutely APS, but also broadly that there was nobody, no one person making sure…
Amazon is sort of an interesting case. They track everything you do. Like, when I first came in joining… I started working there, one of the, they had sort of their ambassadors, like, showing people around, showing you “Here is the workstations.” One of the things that people will normally notice or point out, is…
Misclassifying—especially truck drivers—as independent contractors, and that’s obviously something that’s spread to a bunch of other sectors, rideshare being the most obvious one. So now we’re seeing this surveillance kind of capitalism based in Amazon and other companies and seeing, again, that this is starting here and that it’s not going to stay here, it’s…
I started volunteering for the Council on American Islamic Relations, and working with them I started learning even more about how the government was surveilling our communities. I actually started working with them part-time in college and there was a leak at Camp Pendleton of someone who’d taken a whole bunch of confidential information out.…