Black Code Lifts the Lid off the Internet…
… and you will be horrified by what it reveals! The acclaimed documentary Black Code comes to Toronto Library for one night only, so mark your calendars.
Many of you will have heard that Google reads everything that passes through a Gmail account, or you will have heard that Facebook tracks you around the interwebs if you remain signed in to their platform.
You may have heard of IMSI-catchers, or governments’ heavy-handed efforts to poke around your activities online. If you have, you will want to join us for this event. If you haven’t, come anyway, and learn about the grisly guts of what the Internet actually is, and who influences what happens there.
We are thrilled to announce that, in partnership with TorontoCrypto and HackLabTO, we are screening Black Code, for one night only Thursday May 25 (6:30-8pm), at Parkdale Library. Black Code is a gripping account of how governments control and manipulate the internet in order to censor and monitor their citizens. With stories from exiled Tibetan monks circumventing China’s surveillance apparatus, Syrian citizens tortured for Facebook posts, Brazilian activists using social media to distribute alternative news, and Pakistani online violence against women, we see firsthand the high-stakes consequences that our unprecedented level of digital communication can produce. As this battle for control of cyberspace is waged, our ideas of citizenship, privacy, and democracy will be challenged to the very core.
The film screening will be followed by a cryptoparty hosted by our partners, at HackLabTO’s Parkdale facility. All are welcome to join community technologists to learn the tricks and tools needed to secure your own digital life against many of the threats Black Code speaks to. This evening promises to be timely, scary, enlightening and hopefully, empowering too.
Questions about Toronto Public Library’s digital privacy project can be directed to Jonathon Hodge – jhodge@torontopubliclibrary.ca
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