Tuesday
Standpoint theory
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D’Ignazio, C., & Klein, L. (2020). 3. On Rational, Scientific, Objective Viewpoints from Mythical, Imaginary, Impossible Standpoints. In Data Feminism. MIT. https://bruinlearn.ucla.edu/courses/206185/assignments/1772542
In-class activities
p5
Please pick up where you left off last week! Raise your hand if you need help!
- p5 tutorial 2: Variables and Change
- Check your p5 knowledge #2 (variables)
- p5 tutorial 3 (Conditionals & Interactivity)
- Check your p5 knowledge #3 (conditionals)
- p5 tutorial 4: Organizing Code with Functions
Data and surveillance
Today’s slides: “Data Surveillance”
1. Documenting immigration data
Documenting Immigration Data (form)
Research sources
- “The Databases that Feed the System“
- Palantir’s Immigration OS
- “DOGE is building a master database for immigration enforcement, sources say”
- Glossary of immigration DBs/systems, from the National Immigration Law Center
- “DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants”
2. Documenting DOGE data incursions
DOGE Data Incursions (form)
Research sources
- “The government already knows a lot about you. DOGE is trying to access all of it“
- “DOGE’s Data Digging at the Social Security Administration”
- “Here’s All the Health and Human Services Data DOGE Has Access To”
- “How DOGE’s Access To IRS Data Puts Taxpayer Information At Risk”
- “Trump and DOGE Are ‘Trying to Get Around’ Privacy Laws to Gather Your Personal Info”
- “American Panopticon”
Thursday
The militarized surveillance of Latinx life
Guest speaker: Dr. Melissa Villa-Nicholas, Associate Professor of Information Studies, UCLA
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Villa-Nicholas, M. (2023). Latinx Data Bodies. In Data Borders: How Silicon Valley Is Building an Industry around Immigrants (pp. 42–72). University of California Press. https://bruinlearn.ucla.edu/courses/206185/assignments/1772565
In-class activities
“Data Surveillance” slides (again)
Additional resources
April 30, 2025, New York Times article: “‘This Is What We Were Always Scared of’: DOGE Is Building a Surveillance State”
Data counter-surveillance orgs
- ACLU (especially the Northern California chapter)
- Lucy Parsons Labs
- Stop LAPD Spying
- Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.)
- Library Freedom Project
- Electronic Privacy Information Center
- Center for Democracy & Technology
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
Salomé Viljoen, “A Relational Theory of Data Governance.” From the abstract:
Existing proposals for data governance “share a common conceptual flaw. Put simply, they miss the point of data production in a digital economy: to put people into population-based relations with one another. … Properly representing and adjudicating among those interests necessitates far more public and collective (i.e., democratic) forms of governing data production. Individualist data-subject rights cannot represent, let alone address, these population-level effects.“