A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle
Key takeaways
- Note: this guide is a work in progress and may change at any time!
- 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.
- This is the route we will be taking on the walking tour.
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. A zine based on this work was included at the Ctrl Z.AI zine fair and the HOT MESS digital exhibition in 2020.
In this tour of downtown Seattle, we ll practice spotting some of the layers of the smart city that are hidden in plain sight, collecting and storing data about our lives, as well as the kinds of thinking that justify their existence. Each surveillance technology in our field guide includes the following categories to help you spot surveillance technology in the wild: Address, Appearance, What it does, How the tech works, Social importance, Discussion and finally, References.