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DTSTART:20260117T200000Z
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LOCATION:Brooklyn Public Library\, Grand Army Plaza\, Infocommons
SUMMARY:Cypurr Session A Real Kick in the KOSA
URL;VALUE=URI:- https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cypurr-session-real-k
 ick-central-library-info-20260117-0300pm
DESCRIPTION:For this session\, we'll take a dive into the rash of online sa
 fety bills that have been the talk of the internet lately (i.e. the Kids O
 nline Safety Act [KOSA] and the like)\, and discuss how they affect folks 
 of all different backgrounds. Bills like this will allow for the implement
 ation of a slew of technologies meant to verify ages of users\, including 
 tools like ID checks\, biometric scans\, or other age estimation methods. 
 Per the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)\, "Governments in the U.S. an
 d around the world are increasingly adopting these restrictive measures in
  the name of protecting children online. But in practice\, these systems c
 reate dangerous new forms of surveillance\, censorship\, and exclusion."\n
 \nCome by to learn more on this issue and discuss with the CyPurr folk. \n
 \nSpecial Guest Speaker: EFF's Civil Liberties Director David Green.\n\nDa
 vid Greene\, Senior Staff Attorney and Civil Liberties Director\, has sign
 ificant experience litigating First Amendment issues in state and federal 
 trial and appellate courts. David currently serves on the steering committ
 ee of the Free Expression Network\, the governing committee of the ABA For
 um on Communications Law\, and on advisory boards for several arts and fre
 e speech organizations across the country. He has written and lectured ext
 ensively on many areas of First Amendment Law\, including as a contributor
  to the International Encyclopedia of Censorship. Before joining EFF\, Dav
 id was for twelve years the Executive Director and Lead Staff Counsel for 
 First Amendment Project\, where he worked with EFF on numerous cases inclu
 ding Bunner v. DVDCCA. David also previously served as program director of
  the National Campaign for Freedom of Expression where he was the principa
 l contributor and general editor of the NCFE Quarterly and the principal a
 uthor of the NCFE Handbook to Understanding\, Preparing for and Responding
  to Challenges to your Freedom of Artistic Expression.\n\n
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DESCRIPTION:Join the Cypurr Collective for a super special screening of the
  PBS Frontline Documentary Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus\, inve
 stigating the powerful Pegasus spyware\, sold to governments around the wo
 rld by the Israeli company NSO Group. The spyware is designed to secretly 
 access mobile devices\, allowing operators to read messages\, track locati
 on\, record calls and remotely activate the phone’s microphone or camera
 . Governments around the world have routinely used the spyware to surveil 
 journalists\, lawyers\, political dissidents\, and human rights activists.
  See a description of the film below:\n\n(2023\, Dir. Anne Poiret\, Arthur
  Bouvart) FRONTLINE and Forbidden Films\, the documentary arm of Forbidden
  Stories\, investigate the powerful spyware Pegasus\, sold to governments 
 around the world by the Israeli company NSO Group. This two-part series\, 
 part of the Pegasus Project\, examines how the hacking tool was used on jo
 urnalists\, activists\, the wife and fiancée of Saudi journalist Jamal Kh
 ashoggi and others.\n\nWe'll also be hearing from Demilitarize Brooklyn Na
 vy Yard who will speak on their work to push out military tech companies E
 asy Aerial and Crye Precision (suppliers of the Israeli military) from the
  Brooklyn Navy Yard\, as well as the connections between Big Tech and oppr
 essive regimes in the U.S.\, Israel\, and around the world.\n\n\n
LOCATION:Property Is Theft\, 411 South 5th St.\, Williamsburg\, Brooklyn
SUMMARY:Cypurr Cinema: Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus
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DTSTART:20260201T193000Z
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LOCATION:Wonderville
SUMMARY:Cypurr Cinema- Seeking Mavis Beacon
URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.wonderville.nyc/events/cypurr-cinema-super-secret
 -matinee-2-1-26
DESCRIPTION:For this month’s journey into tech-cinema\, we’re taking a 
 break from our usual 1995-cyberpunk-ethos to screen Seeking Mavis Beacon (
 2024\, dir by Jazmine Jones)\, a film which “investigates the disappeara
 nce and reexamines the legacy of one of the most influential Black women i
 n technology.” Sitting at the intersection of technology and race\, this
  documentary questions the simultaneous commodification and erasure of Bla
 ck people in tech spaces\, a topic that is as relevant as ever with the ex
 ploitation of Black avatars in the age of AI.
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DTSTART:20260718T190000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Cut through the hype and doom around AI with the CyPurr cats! T
 his session will go over a beginner-friendly review of how the recent wave
  of AI tools works before diving into what it means for privacy and mass s
 urveillance. Bring your device for the second half\, where we'll opt-out o
 f these settings together and discussing a more private and just future of
  tech.
LOCATION:Brooklyn Public Library\, Grand Army Plaza\, Infocommons
SUMMARY:CyPurr Session: AI and You
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DESCRIPTION:This workshop is an introduction to personal digital privacy an
 d information security practices! We will cover threat modeling\, encrypti
 on & getting around the city\, and how we make choices with data. Material
  will be provided for us to make personalized digital privacy zines\, taki
 ng the information we find useful to craft our own pocket-guides.
LOCATION:Trans Pecos\, Ridgewood\, Queens
SUMMARY:Zines + Cybersecurity Workshop
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DTSTART:20260523T190000Z
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LOCATION:Infocommons\, Brooklyn Public Library\, Grand Army Plaza
SUMMARY:Cypurr Session: Communities Need Backup
DESCRIPTION:Don't let your community 404! Building a personal archive of yo
 ur life online doesn't just help you regain control\, it preserves an impo
 rtant snapshot for the history of everyday working people. We'll discuss t
 he importance of digital archival practices (with some guest speakers) bef
 ore walking through how to download your social media history and view it 
 offline (and optionally\, delete it!). Let's not surrender our timeline to
  Mark and Elon!\n\nCheck out the bios below for our main speakers for thi
 s event:\n\nOlivia M. Ross is a Caribbean American information worker\, do
 cumentarian\, and secretkeeper from Queens. Her work practice in audiovisu
 al and software preservation informs embodied research into the cybernetic
 s of secrecy\, power\, and place. She is a 2025-2026 Archival Resident at 
 Performance Space and a maintainer of the Cyberfeminism Index. Current and
  previous collaborators include Wikipedia\, The Center for Afrofuturist St
 udies\, NEW INC\, Rhizome\, The Kitchen\, The School for Poetic Computatio
 n\, Pioneer Works\, BelleMoon Productions\, and NEON. Her work has been fe
 atured in The Atlantic\, Documentary Magazine\, Letterboxd Journal\, MUBI 
 Notebook\, Them\, Refinery29\, Bitch Media\, and the YouTube video essays 
 of young Black femmes. Ask her about Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing (1987). S
 he is a death doula-in-training.\n\nVen Qiu is an archivist and creative t
 echnologist based in New York\, co-parented by Chinese immigrants and the 
 internet. As a memory worker committed to data sovereignty\, Qiu conceptua
 lizes deletion as a mechanism through which sociopolitical and infrastruct
 ural conditions of memory become legible (e.g. digital colonialism\, platf
 orm capitalism\, neo-liberalism). These focuses materialize in their archi
 val project\, Dump Site\, a digital repository of deleted media. Qiu draws
  from their work as a tattooer\, archivist\, and perfumer to explore the t
 extures of memory and multimodal archives. Their practice incorporates ora
 l history\, field recording\, body modification\, scent\, and new media.
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DESCRIPTION:Join Cypurr as we take on the surveillance-scape through film! 
 This month\, we’ll be taking in small bites of cinema with discussions o
 n the ever-growing threat of government use of surveillance tech and AI\, 
 as well as finding our autonomy in automated systems of authority. This af
 ternoon’s menu of flicks includes:\n\n- Black Mirror: Fifteen Million Me
 rits- Set in an enclosed world where most of society must cycle on exercis
 e bikes in order to generate electricity and then earn currency called "me
 rits"\, the episode tells the story of Bing (Daniel Kaluuya)\, who meets A
 bi (Jessica Brown Findlay) and convinces her to participate in a talent sh
 ow so she can become famous.\n\n- Benn Jordan: Breaking the Creepy AI in P
 olice Cameras- If you live in the United States\, it's very likely that a 
 private startup has been logging and sharing your vehicle's location witho
 ut your consent. In this video we explore how AI can defend against being 
 tracked by 3rd party police and retail AI tracking cameras.\n\n- Please Ho
 ld: A young man's life is suddenly and inexplicably derailed\, as he finds
  himself at the mercy of automated "justice."\n\nnow also featuring a q+a 
 with Beck Haberstroh and Imani Thompson discussing their project "We Are A
 lready Gathered"\n\n"We are already gathered is an event series that bring
 s together communities with shared surveillance risks. Let's talk about wh
 o is collecting our information and strategize through teach-ins and zine-
 making.Together\, we investigate the systems that investigate us."\n\nbeck
  haberstroh is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. Their practice wres
 tles with ways that personal data is exploited by corporations and governm
 ents. They use elements of sculpture and performance to collaboratively ma
 ke new photographic systems together\, to create ways of seeing and being 
 seen that give us agency\, care and power. They are a resident with Mozill
 a Foundation's Creative Futures x Rhizome: Counterstructural Commons.\n\nM
 ore on the project here: https://wearealreadygathered.info\n\n\n\nCome by 
 for some film and talk with the Cypurr folk!
LOCATION:Wonderville
SUMMARY:Cypurr Cinema Super Secret Matinee: Surveillance Shorts
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DESCRIPTION:\n\nGoogle… it's not me\, it's you. And the AI overviews.\n\n
 Do you want to leave Google in 2025 but don't know where to start? Do you 
 wish the process of moving your digital life over was a little less overwh
 elming?\n\nThis February\, join Cache Me Outside and Cypurr Collective to 
 break up with Google. Bring your laptop or phone and we'll lock in on alte
 rnate search tools\, email services\, browsers\, migrating account data\, 
 removing ourselves from search results\, and more. Facilitators on hand to
  help when you get stuck.\n\nDJs\, VJs\, and live coders on open decks all
  night at our fave bar/arcade!\n\nDoors 7pm \n\nWant to DJ\, VJ\, or live 
 code? Sign up for a slot: https://tally.so/r/pbyZE1\n
LOCATION:Wonderville
SUMMARY:Break Up With Google
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DESCRIPTION:In this session\, we will be talking about landlord tech\, how 
 it exacerbates housing injustice\, and what rights tenants have to protect
  themselves. Landlord tech\, also referred to as property or prop tech\, r
 efers to a range of tools used by the real estate industry across the tena
 ncy lifecycle. Examples of landlord tech include closed-circuit television
  (CCTV) cameras\, facial recognition technologies\, access control applica
 tions\, digital payment and tenant screening platforms and other “smart 
 building” software. We will discuss how biometric data collection\, algo
 rithmic decision-making\, and surveillance practices embedded in landlord 
 tech place many tenants in the path of extractive data mechanisms and enab
 le unfair housing practices.\n\nThis event will also feature a Q + A from 
 the Ridgewood Tenants Union discussing tenants rights and organizing in yo
 ur building. See their info below:\n\nThe Ridgewood Tenants Union is an al
 l-volunteer and tenant-led anti-gentrification group working together to g
 row the power of working-class tenants and unhoused people in Ridgewood\, 
 Maspeth\, Glendale\, and Middle Village. Founded in 2014 and demanding saf
 e and stable housing for all\, they organize together to fight displacemen
 t.\n\nSpecial Speaker: Paula Garcia-Salazar\, Staff Attorney at the Legal 
 Aid Society\n\nRecommended Reading and Resources:\n\n    “Landlord Techn
 ologies of Gentrification: Facial Recognition and Building Access Technolo
 gies in New York City Homes”\n    Landlord Tech Watch
LOCATION:Brooklyn Public Library Infocommons (Grand Army Plaza)
SUMMARY:CyPurr Session: Landlord Surveillance
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