2020 Beaverbrook Annual Lectures: Responding to Surveillance Capitalism

Technological surveillance is an undeniable reality of the modern digital landscape, one that is largely characterized by the tracking, collection, and manipulation of users’ interactions - both online and off. The data collected and leveraged through this surveillance infrastructure is the central economic driver of the digital economy, with immense stakes for our social, political and democratic lives. Which is why we brought two of the most thoughtful thinkers on the concept, Shoshana Zuboff and Cory Doctorow to McGill for a two-part Annual Beaverbrook Public Lecture: “Responding to Surveillance Capitalism.”