A walking tour guide for spotting surveillance infrastructure in Seattle's smart city
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Summary
A guide for a walking tour in downtown Seattle designed to help participants spot surveillance infrastructure hidden in plain sight as part of the "smart" city. The workshop was developed in partnership with the ACLU of Washington and the Tech Equity Coalition, focusing on identifying layers of data collection and storage systems embedded in urban environments. The content is presented as an educational, activist-oriented resource rather than a professionally fact-checked article.
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Note: this guide is a work in progress and may change at any time! We've done our best to cite our sources, but this page has not been professionally fact-checked.
This workshop was first run as part of two pilot workshops with the Tech Equity Coalition, in partnership with the ACLU of Washington, in October 2019.
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