2025-04-23 –, 101
The talk has two parts, show and tell what happened or happening in our world by the use of technology, the same technology we, the people in this room create. And also to tell you all that together we have the power to change this. We can show solidarity to other human beings and groups and fight back to evil and morally wrong technology decisions.
The talks goes through roughly the following examples:
- IBM and holocaust
- Data and people destroying data to save others during second world war
- metadata
- metadata based attacks in modern days
- enshittification
- social media based troubles, effects in elections
- fight against e2e encryption
- techbros trying to define what is a family
- amazon and voice recordings
- cryptocurrencies
- AI and many examples of that land
- surveillance industry
- russia changing internet access in occupied Ukraine
- china
- climate effect
- Examples of doing things in a good way, technologists fighting back, showing us hope
Kushal Das is a public interest technologist working at Sunet (https://sunet.se) where he helps to build secure and privacy focused tools and services. He is CPython core developer & a director at the Python Software Foundation. He is also part of the core team of the Tor Project, and a long time contributor to Fedora Project. In 2004 he founded Linux Users' Group of Durgapur. He also helps out citizens/journalists/activists with digital security trainings. He regularly blogs at https://kushaldas.in.