This animation was created for PowerSwitch Action’s newly released popular education toolkit: Stop the AI Surveillance Pipeline. It includes videos, resources, and a zine/board game. The toolkit can be found at www.powerswitchaction.org/resources/stop-AI-surveillance-pipeline

AI surveillance is growing. From ICE abducting our neighbors, to corporations raising prices and lowering wages, to straight-up surveillance tech being sold to us in the form of doorcams and glasses. Big Tech corporations and billionaires are getting rich off our data, creating individual profiles on most of us, and then selling that information off. Every digital interaction you have is a new data point, and data brokers are collecting all of it:

▪ your income
▪ physical and mental health
▪ sexual orientation
▪ religion
▪ political preferences
▪ websites and apps you use
▪ stores you go to
▪ things you buy
▪ your location during the day
▪ AND MORE!

Once our data is out in the world, it's very hard to get it back. And now, we're seeing the rise of a for-profit surveillance state. The risks are too great, and we have to fight back before it's too late. That fight starts with learning. Who's taking our data? What are they doing with it? Who's profiting off of us? How do we fight back?

We have a right to our data and how it's used, and we can fight for policies that protect our digital and human rights!