you should not expect companies to be fair - google spain, right to be forgotten detail of the law, among lawyers the main point is not the law but how people we do not live in a world ... problem is not state but mega-corp should the state protect us? is law the state people have to behave differently they have to behave differently but why do it, digital self defense 'the mega corp' ippolita: digital self defense workshop with children ... how to deal with devices and we learned. Q: Where are you? I am on it ... in it ... you are somewhere else, not at home, so we need to be careful login is military behaviour; you prove Q: Who else is there? People running communication, software, never alone Q: What does a 'like' do, what do you feel? It is nice but it lasts less long. Time and satisfaction (an insult is the same - if you do not react than it is easier forgotten) how it works ... technical level it is treated as separate but it is not ippolita: 'it is easier to talk about a social problem from a technical point of view' (i.e. it's name) a neutral question? a tactical question? a factual question? Q: What do you call your device? social engineering is the basics of hacking there is always a weak point, it's human so focus on humans machines and humans at risk show that you are part of a network of technologies of different types. they work if you want to deal with this power, what do you do ways to start a conversation is good to know some tactics by charismatic people. only when you realise, you can start self-defense has to come from yourself. help understand it is not their world, their terms guiding the understanding redefining menace I don't want to be commanded = political, not ideology we don't want to overvalorize technological knowledge how can we convince geek people to work with us and not for google? 'normal people' vs geeks how to integrate geeks division of labour? efficiency? industry wanting specialists Security: both digital lives and organic life - misperception of their importance technicians to get tools, that will solve the problem cryptography ... why us ... confidence to ask yourself : what do you need. might use your organic body differently collectif self defense. we are a self you are a community find ways to ask other people you trust adopt your geek assess and valorize competence around you. self awareness. not defensive, but reflection you are oppressed because other people's construction why do you have these addictions exercise exorcise to get stronger to feel better and be better look up: feminist self defense being under violence -- understanding the violence nerd suppremacy 'it is a male technology' coleman's mistake: her narratives on autonomy ... pleasure of destruction, pleasure of being able to destruct you can suffer your own knowledge. rtfm - meritocracy is coleman aware of the violence she's under? How do you adopt your geek? - Remember you are not the boss (ask: explain me please?) - State your position: I am not you, but I (will try to) understand You need to find competence around you. Dialogical strategy living in a system there is a lot of people to not change anything take what you can and go away The relationship ... Let's find things out together the story of autistici who has the time what is a technology 'the public wants some service' separating task, specialise. limits, your body has limits. digital as well - a menace non-permeability is main feature of your self-defense radical openness means you put limits accept your and others limits some rules degrowth? there is no more bread, not meeting expectations, targets set by others for this you need selfconfidence not to comply to be able to live with discomfort "just for fun" but is it true? not. trust in yourself and faith and/or confidence happy degrowth = to deal with your addiction de-croissance addiction to detox taste ... you need to develop other tastes oysters vs hamburgers diversity, promiscuity conformism an offer you cannot refuse present a work on problems with tech. they worked on facial-recognition Dark side of Google Trust in the possibility to tweak technologies in accordance with the desire of individuals is essential if one wishes to create networks that are really free, and not merely digital. ! The practice of collaboration is not a panacea that will automagically transform every technological novelty into a shared good In the clouds of social networks, then, published does not mean public. To sell Google’s technocracy as if it were a tool for direct democracy is a charade that is meant to make us believe that we are participants in some sort of grand electronic democracy game, a narrative that actually is totally devoid of substance. Secrecy, cryptography, and steganography are all examples of useful practices, but they are not definitive solutions. Communication and sharing both remain the objects of a desire, which can only be brought about by ‘publication’, i.e. by making public. However, putting personal stuff on private servers like on those of Google means ‘to publish’, not ‘to make public As of today, no pedagogic model exists that would correspond to a demand for a ‘dilettante’ \nkind of scientific approach to knowledge, automation benign giant evangelists co-operate on the standards, compete on the solutions!’ academic arrogance This is the reason why the idea of the exhaustiveness of Google’s databases must be challenged and discounted, as it falsely conjures up the notion of one unique universe for all of us Erik Davis, TechGnosis: Magic, Memory, and the Angels of Information, Rosi Braidotti, Metamorphoses. Towards a Materialist Theory of Becoming, brainchild After all, Google is an Enlightenment dream For Google, the world will soon become a gigantic index in which a perfect correlation exists between digital resources and ambient reality. Each and every index will become computable by an algorithm and presented as a search result in the most convenient manner. And Google will be in pole position to be the instrument that shall maintain that index. have described what Donna Haraway called the ‘informatics of domination published does not mean public. The Googlization of Everything - and Why We Should Worry (University of California Press: 2011), by Siva Yet, common sense and Orwellian memories are more than enough to realize that such a growth, without end or aim, is the manifestation of the will of the technological powers that view human individuals only as potential consumers and nothing more. In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives. disappearance of the concept of files and file systems. Donna Haraway, ‘A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the \nLate Twentieth Century’. In Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature