[TYPES/announce] Invitation LogicLounge with Cory Doctorow - Surveillance Capitalism is not a Rogue Capitalism - virtual open livestream - 21 July 2020 - 8am PST - hosted by CAV 2020

[Mathias Preiner]

Dear colleagues,
dear friends of logic,

We would like to cordially invite you to the 18th public discussion
in the LogicLounge series on July 21 2020, part of CAV 2020:

LogicLounge with Cory Doctorow
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Working as Intended: Surveillance Capitalism is not a Rogue Capitalism

Big Tech companies are providing free services that billions of people
use, which in turn enables them to monitor the behaviour of their users
in astonishing detail. Very often without their explicit consent. This
new form of capitalism that found a way to use tech for its purposes has
recently been named “Surveillance capitalism”. Companies spy because
data allows them to influence their operations for their benefit in a
devastatingly effective way.

What if Big Tech’s ability to command billions for ads has more to do
with cornering markets and eking out marginal gains through targeting,
with stale data being largely useless for commercial purposes — but
still full of juicy kompromat for greedy state surveillance agencies?
Without any regulatory oversight, are we all test rabbits for the big
tech companies? Do free-range BigTech monopolies cause erosion of
competition and innovation, democracy, personal freedoms, and sense of
community?


Tuesday, July 21 2020
Virtual
8am PST │ 3pm UTC │ 5pm CEST (Vienna)
http://www.vcla.at/logiclounge/
The LogicLounge is hosted by the 32nd CAV 2020, and it will be recorded.


Registration (free)
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https://stanford.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9AwAiQSmTj2ZjaIsIoTr5A


About Cory Doctorow
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Cory Doctorow is a science fiction novelist, journalist, and technology
activist, working as a special advisor for the Electronic Frontier
Foundation. He is a former director of Europen Affairs for the
Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit civil liberties group that
defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards, and treaties.


Organizers
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The LogicLounge is hosted by the 32nd International Conference on
Computer-Aided Verification (CAV) in memoriam of Helmut Veith. It is
organized by Aina Niemetz and Mathias Preiner of Stanford University in
collaboration with the Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms at TU Wien
(VCLA).


About the LogicLounge
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The series originated in 2014 at the Vienna Summer of Logic, and is
since then travelling between Vienna and the venue of the CAV
conferences. LogicLounge features discussions on the “science of
reasoning” in the areas of logic, philosophy, mathematics, computer
science and artificial intelligence. The recordings of the past
LogicLounges with Toby Walsh, Eva Galperin, Moshe Vardi or Dana Scott,
among others, are available at: http://www.vcla.at/logiclounge/


Twitter
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