Just Conversations | Watching the Watchers: Surveillance, Power, and the Fight for Accountability
Civil liberties experts and activists examine facial recognition, predictive policing, and community strategies to resist expanding government surveillance.
Why we picked this
Facial recognition, protest monitoring, predictive policing—surveillance is expanding faster than the accountability structures around it. This panel puts the practitioners of resistance in the room.
The Center for Brooklyn History’s Just Conversations series brings together civil liberties experts and community organizers to examine how surveillance technologies are reshaping public life—and what tools communities have to push back. The evening covers facial recognition, predictive policing, and the quiet expansion of monitoring infrastructure into everyday spaces.
Moustafa Bayoumi, award-winning journalist and Guardian columnist, moderates a panel that includes Michelle Dahl of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP), Fordham law professor and communications policy expert Olivier Sylvain, and Derrick Ingram-Guillaume, co-founder of Warriors in the Garden, who was himself the subject of NYPD surveillance during 2020 protests.
The conversation sits at the intersection of law, technology, and community organizing—examining not only the scope of the problem but the strategies communities are actually using to create accountability. Free admission; registration encouraged.