Week 5 Lecture - Government Censorship and Surveillance

Josh Hug, February 25th, 2025

Materials

CS 195 Readings

• Required Clearview.AI: 'Access My Information'.
• Required Freedom House. Freedom House Country Report - pick one country and do a QQCR based on that country's page. 2024.
• Recommended Valerie Hopkins. She Posted Online About the War in Ukraine. Then She Faced a Prison Term.. The New York Times. 2023.
• Recommended Jessie Lau. Threats, fear and surveillance: how Beijing targets students in the UK who criticise regime.. The Guardian. 2024.
• Recommended Dia Kayyali. FBI's "Suicide Letter" to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Dangers of Unchecked Surveillance. Electronic Frontier Foundation. 2014.
• Optional Gerry Shih. ‘If I disappear’: Chinese students make farewell messages amid crackdowns over labor activism. Washington post. 2019.

CS H195 Readings

• Required Clearview.AI: 'Access My Information'.
• Required Freedom House. Freedom House Country Report - pick one country and do a QQCR based on that country's page. 2024.
• Recommended Valerie Hopkins. She Posted Online About the War in Ukraine. Then She Faced a Prison Term.. The New York Times. 2023.
• Recommended Jessie Lau. Threats, fear and surveillance: how Beijing targets students in the UK who criticise regime.. The Guardian. 2024.
• Recommended Dia Kayyali. FBI's "Suicide Letter" to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Dangers of Unchecked Surveillance. Electronic Frontier Foundation. 2014.
• Optional Gerry Shih. ‘If I disappear’: Chinese students make farewell messages amid crackdowns over labor activism. Washington post. 2019.