The Media Action Grassroots Network (www.mag-net.org) met in Washington DC to grapple with surveillance and the police state and how to center the issue with the most deeply impacted communities and use racial justice strategies to fight surveillance and tracking.
Every year, media justice organizations from all over the country convene under the name The Media Action Grassroots Network.
Here, illustrated more vividly than usual, is what happened this year in the 2016 Annual Report from the Anchor’s Congress convening.
Media Alliance joined sixteen other grassroots media group in a letter to the White House embracing a rights-model for the handling of big data.
The letter states “we believe that big data creates significant new risks of racial injustice. In order to ensure a fair and inclusive future for our nation’s communities of color, and to enable the potential benefits of these new technologies to be fully realized and broadly shared, it is vitally important that the emerging policy framework for big data explicitly acknowledges and address issues of racial discrimination”. Continue reading Big Data and Privacy
