2:00 pm ET
2:15–3:00 pm ET
Dr. Ruha Benjamin, Professor in the Department of African American studies at Princeton University, founding director of the IDA B. WELLS Just Data Lab
Jacinta González, Senior Campaign Organizer, Mijente
Andrea Ritchie, author, advocate, and researcher in police misconduct for two decades, Researcher-in-Residence in Barnard Center for Women’s Social Justice Institute
Paromita Shah, Executive Director, Just Futures Law
3:00–4:00 pm ET
Have you ever wanted to learn more about data brokers? This panel will break it down for you and explain what it means for ICE enforcement. This panel will cover how data collection and data sharing are emerging as key strategies in policing and immigration raids and deportations. The focus will be the capture and use of sensitive information and the impact it has on communities, the role of third party corporations who harvest data, and the multiple levels of sharing. We will introduce concepts around data sharing, data brokers and their impact on immigrant communities, including immigrant drivers’ licenses.
Speakers:
Caitlin Barry, Take Back Tech Fellow
Jennifer Lynch, Surveillance Litigation Director, Electronic Frontier Education
Archana Ahlawat, Take Back Tech Fellow
Moderator: Paromita Shah, Just Futures Law
4:00–5:00 pm ET
As data overtakes oil in value, we are spending billions for “tech solutions” and meta-data analytics to build a more “efficient and safe” world. But there is a dangerous side to tech – a side that is super-charging the systemic problems of overpolicing, racial profiling, and mass deportations of communities of color, including immigrants. Panelists will cover critical questions we must ask when it comes to smart cities before state and local governments digitize our lives.
Speakers:
Rashida Richardson, Visiting Fellow, Rutgers Law School
Gabriela Sandoval, Research Director at TURN
Alvaro Bedoya, Founding Director of Center of Privacy and Law, Georgetown Law
Moderator: Mizue Aizeki, Interim ED at Immigrant Defense Project
4:00 pm ET
This panel will focus on laws related to credit reporting and how the capture of sensitive information is facilitating immigration enforcement and raising concerns about civil rights abuses. As the surveillance industry grows, immigrant communities seek to learn more about how corporations might be exploiting sensitive data and how it might be shared amongst third parties and government agencies for surveillance, raids and deportations. Further, the panel will highlight information about the increasing levels of surveillance and data collection in times of crises.
Panelists:
Kevin Herrera, Staff Attorney, Just Futures Law
Chi Chi Wu, Staff Attorney, National Consumer Law Center
Stephanie Brenowitz, Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Enforcement, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Moderator: Annie Lai, Clinical Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic at the University of California, Irvine School of Law
2:00 pm ET
2:10–3:00 pm ET
Now, with President Biden in office, we know the administration has inherited a sweeping surveillance state that was militarized under President Trump but long predates him, and in many ways, has strong bipartisan support. Already, President Biden has requested $1.2 billion dollars from Congress for “smart” border infrastructure which will largely go towards funding DHS surveillance technologies. Join us as we sit down with Representative Rashida Tlaib and Representative Raúl Grijalva for a conversation about digital walls, borders, and deportations. We will discuss what challenging DHS mass surveillance could look like under a Biden administration and how we can reign in these technologies as well as the abusive corporate and government actors that deploy them.
Representative Rashida Tlaib (MI-13)
Representative Raúl Grijalva (AZ-3)
Moderator: Julie Mao, Deputy Director, Just Futures Law
3:00–4:00 pm ET
This panel dives into local resistance fights in Chicago, Austin, and Detroit to fight back against local law enforcement’s use of surveillance tech to criminalize and deport communities of color. A panel of seasoned organizers will dive into current campaigns, how they identified issues affecting communities, the tools they developed to fight back against tech surveillance, and the lessons learned.
Speakers:
Arianna Salgado, Organized Communities Against Deportations
Claudia Munoz, Co-Executive Director, Grassroots Leadership
Tawana Petty, Organizing Director, Data for Black Lives
Moderator: Steven Renderos, Executive Director, Media Justice
4:00 pm ET
This panel of experts and practitioners will discuss current surveillance strategies and tactics used by law enforcement. It will address how people accused of crimes and community activists can defend themselves from invasive technological surveillance using constitutional frameworks. As racial justice uprisings and other protests reverberate throughout the United States, this session will cover emerging legal arguments and constitutional defenses under the First and Fourth Amendments for activists and their allies who are being surveilled and targeted by police and ICE.
Panelists:
Jennifer Lee Koh, Visiting Lecturer & Director, Immigration Clinic, University of Washington School of Law
Jumana Musa, Director, NACDL Fourth Amendment Center
Sejal Zota, Co-founder and Legal Director of Just Futures Law
Vanessa del Valle, Clinical Assistant Professor of Law, Bluhm Legal Clinic, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
4:00 pm ET
10:00 am ET
This panel will offer a window into global conversations among migrants and their allies about how digital identity initiatives and migrant surveillance are being implemented, monitored, and resisted around the world.
Dr. Petra Molnar, Associate Director, Refugee Law Lab, Toronto and Brussels
Grace Mutung’u, Research Fellow, Centre for IP and IT Law, Strathmore University, Nairobi
Santiago Narváez, Research Officer at R3D: Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales, Mexico City
Prof. Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Temple Law School, Philadelphia
2:10–4:00 pm ET