Recent revelations about government surveillance, including Edward Snowden’s leak of NSA documents, have renewed worldwide attention to questions around privacy. Why is privacy important? What are the uses of surveillance? What are the dangers? What are the scope and consequences of government surveillance, and what are the ethical and legal limits of surveillance practices?
This is the focus of Keeping Tabs on America: Surveillance and You, a free conversation with Kristian Williams on Saturday, March 12 at 2pm at the Downtown Bend Library. Hosted by Deschutes Public Library and sponsored by Oregon Humanities this program is part of the Know Privacy series at DPL.
Williams has studied state surveillance for almost twenty years, writing as both a scholar and a journalist. He is the author of Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America; American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination; and Hurt: Notes on Torture in a Modern Democracy. He is one of the editors of Life During Wartime: Resisting Counterinsurgency, as well as an occasional contributor to Counterpunch, Toward Freedom, and In These Times.
Through the Conversation Project, Oregon Humanities offers free programs that engage community members in thoughtful, challenging conversations about ideas critical to our daily lives and our state’s future. For more information about Oregon Humanities’ programs, grants and publications visit www.orgonhumanities.org. For more information about this or other library programs please contact Liz at 541-312-1032 or lizg@deschuteslibrary.org.
