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A short animation to explain the Fediverse, a decentralised network that lets you share short publications (Mastodon), videos (PeerTube), events (Mobilizon) or images (Pixelfed).

Animation by Aryeom, produced by LILA - ZeMarmot Team, in collaboration with Framasoft (France, 2022). CC BY-SA. 1 min. 38 s.

As a brave new world of ubiquitous AI arrives, an overview of the latest tech advances. Europe is playing catch up in the frantic AI technology race but has an ever-growing number of start-ups specialising in the field. Jonas Andrulis, founder of Aleph Alpha, a company based in Heidelberg in Germany, is looking to generate AI capable of streamlining the work of public bodies. Frenchman Thomas Wolf, co-founder of the Hugging Face platform, favours open source AI that is accessible to all.

Algorithmic video surveillance has transformed the "classic" cameras on the streets of our cities. This technology, sold by its promoters as a "decision aid", is actually an algorithmic layer added to the cameras to identify and analyze the allegedly "suspicious" behaviors or movements that the police want to track. Its deployment is carried out in complete opacity and without any public debate, in probably more than a hundred cities today, leaving the field free for the industrialists to promote and perfect their product of which we are the guinea pigs.

Documentary "Nothing to Hide" by Marc Meillassoux et Mihaela Gladovic (France, 2016)

"Are you really sure you have "nothing to hide"? How much can  Facebook or Google about you in just 30 days? Your sexual orientation? Your wake-up and bedtimes? Your alcohol consumption and criminal offenses? Your level of wealth and  creditworthiness? Marc Meillassoux and Mihaela Gladovic did the experiment  hacking the iPhone and IMac of a young artist with "nothing to hide" for a month.

Edward Snowden, Lawrence Lessig and Birgitta Jónsdóttir, leading figures in the fight for freedom, discuss the future of democracy. 

A documentary on the journey of Aaron Swartz, activist and whistleblower on the issues of data protection and commoditization, in United States. 

This ressource is a theorical content for those who are interested in the subject of "Cybersurveillance".