Big Brother Is Watching. But We Can Resist
At Last Night’s “What Is the State of Surveillance?” Program, Panelists Spoke About What We Can Do About the Orwellian Present
“Can surveillance be a necessary evil?”
The question came near the end of yesterday’s public program, “What Is the State of Surveillance?,” held at the ASU California Center in the historic Herald-Examiner building in downtown Los Angeles.
The Zócalo panel, presented in partnership with ACLU of Southern California and The Progress Network, had already reviewed a longstanding history of surveillance as a mechanism of control, and had mulled ways people can push back against an Orwellian present. Now, during the audience Q&A, someone wanted the panelists to comment on what surveillance was …
