Join Ars Technica writers and law professor Elizabeth Joh for a conversation about law enforcement surveillance technology.
You can participate in the second episode of Ars Technica Live, a monthly interview series with fascinating people who work at the intersections of tech, science and culture. Filmed before a live audience in Oakland, each episode is a speculative, informal conversation between Ars Technica hosts Annalee Newitz and Cyrus Farivar and an invited guest. The audience, drawn from Ars Technica’s readers, is also invited to join the conversation and ask questions. These aren’t soundbyte setups; they are deepcuts from the frontiers of research and creativity.
The May 18 meet-up will cover the acceleration of the intersection of cops’ use of surveillance technology, and what it means for individual privacy.
Episodes are posted to Ars Technica the week after the live events.
Contact: Annalee Newitz (annalee@arstechnica.com)
Elizabeth Joh is a law professor of at the University of California, Davis. Her scholarship has appeared in the Stanford Law Review, the California Law Review, the Northwestern University Law Review, the Harvard Law Review Forum, and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online. She has also provided commentary for the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times.
Annalee Newitz is the tech culture editor at Ars Technica. Previously she was the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo and io9. She is the author of Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction (Doubleday). Her first novel, Autonomous, comes out in 2017 from Tor Books.
Cyrus Farivar is the senior business editor at Ars Technica. His book, The Internet of Elsewhere (Rutgers University Press) is about the history and effects of the Internet on different countries around the world, including Senegal, Iran, Estonia and South Korea. He previously was the Sci-Tech Editor, and host of “Spectrum” at Deutsche Welle English, Germany’s international broadcaster.
Episode #3: June 15, 2016 (topic/guest TBD)
Episode #4: July 22, 2016 (topic/guest TBD)