THE PANOPTICON: RESISTANCE IS NOT FUTILE presentation by Annie Machon @ MINE YOURS OURS 2016: SURVEILLANCE Annie Machon was an intelligence officer for the UK’s Security Service, MI5, in the 1990s, before resigning to help blow the whistle on the crimes and incompetence of the British spy agencies. She is now a writer, media commentator, political campaigner, and international public speaker on a variety of related issues: the war on terrorism, the war on whistleblowers, the war on drugs, and the war on the internet. She is currently the European director of LEAP (leap.cc) and Co-Director of Code Red (codered.is), as well as a member of the Sam Adams Associates (samadamsaward.ch/). Today she emphasizes the value of privacy and puts out a call to the tech industry, declaring that “the tech community is our last line of defense” against global security surveillance. Privacy was enshrined as a fundamental human right in the Universal Declaration in 1948. But since the evolution of the world wide web it has never been under greater threat, with panoptic spy surveillance and corporate vigilantes stalking the internet. During her talk, she explored the problems, effects and possible solutions to today’s Panopticon. anniemachon.ch/ twitter.com/anniemachon about.me/anniemachon drugo-more.hr/wordpress/en/2016/03/30/mine-yours-ours-2016-lecture-presentations ---------- Production: Drugo more, Aksioma – Zavod za sodobne umetnosti (Ljubljana) Coproduction: d-i-n-a/The Influencers (Barcelona), MMSU Rijeka Camera & video editing: Filmaktiv Supported by: European Commission program Creative Europe, Kultura nova Foundation, Croatian Government Office for Cooperation with NGO’s, Ministry of culture of the Republic of Croatia, City of Rijeka – Department for culture Program is realized as part of Masters & Servers a joint project by Aksioma (SI), Drugo more (HR), AND (UK), Link Art Centre (IT) i d-i-n/The Influencers (ES). This video is produced with the financial support of the „Kultura nova“ Foundation. Opinions expressed herein reflect solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the „Kultura nova“ Foundation. This video is financed by the Croatian Government Office for Cooperation with NGOs. The views expressed in this communication are the sole responsibility of Drugo more. This video has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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