@PopTechWorks on digital surveillance and people power:
https://www.publicbooks.org/public-thinker-virginia-eubanks-on-digital-surveillance-and-people-power/
"People who live in low-rights environments ... are already living in the digital future, especially when it comes to high-tech surveillance and discipline."

"We don't need to project potential harms into an abstract future; we can ask people what they experienced last week.": @PopTechWorks

"We refuse to see these technological systems as part of history."
"We also refuse to see these technological systems as part of *this* political moment, which is characterized by absolute hatred of the poor."

"We have to articulate the politics of these systems before we can build technology that might lean toward justice."
"We have to build *against* the legacy of inequality. Intentionally."

"We have to also acknowledge that tech has become the new finance. People who would have gone into investment banking in the 1980s are going into tech now."

"... there are plenty of incentives for young engineers or data scientists to deny their culpability instead of working toward equity. You can make a lot of money not caring. You can gather a lot of power not caring ..."

"We cannot create these deeply consequential systems, systems that are making crucial political decisions, unless we are working in collaboration with the people most impacted by them."

"People who will be directly impacted must have a say in how the systems are designed. More importantly, they have to have power in deciding how these systems are implemented ...
There should be some way that folks can say no."

I'll end this by going back to the beginning of this powerful interview with @PopTechWorks:
"... I've stopped asking, "What problem in poor and working people's lives can technology solve in the future"? I ask instead, "How is technology working in your life right now?"