Uprise Radio - Episode 60: Digital Rights Watch: The State of Digital Rights and Surveillance Capitalism

Wednesday, 2 March 2022 - 5:30pm to 6:00pm
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Uprise Radio is joined by Sam Floreani, Program Lead at Digital Rights Watch, to discuss surveillance capitalism, misinformation and alternative approaches to internet harm reduction that don’t include censorship or encroachment on our privacy.

Sam talks us through the scope and over-arching findings in the soon-to-be-released Digital Rights Watch 2021 Retrospective. The report will be launched online this Thursday the 3rd of March at DWR’s event ‘The State of Digital Rights’ at 1pm. Be sure to get along to find out more and to hear from the great line-up of speakers.

Wednesday 5:30pm to 6:00pm
A radical current affairs program providing a critical analysis of a topic in the news cycle that deserves closer inspection.

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James Brennan & Mercedes Zanker.

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