Thomas Drake speaks at Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM)

The Golden Age of Surveillance — Reflections on Society, Technocracy and our Humanity

The former senior executive with the National Security Agency, computer software expert and whistleblower speaks as a guest at the seminar "Data Extraction, Materiality and Agency" of Prof. Joana Moll (Substitute Professor of Networks) at Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (Academy of Media Arts Cologne).

Wednesday, 13th of November 2024, 11 AM, online via Zoom
Mittwoch, 13. November 2024, 11 Uhr, online via Zoom

Zoom Meeting ID: 634 5419 5098
Passcode: 443979
Free entrance

Thomas Drake is a former senior executive with the National Security Agency, a United States Air Force and Navy veteran, computer software expert, and whistleblower. While at NSA, he blew the whistle on multi-billion fraud, intelligence failures, wrongdoing and a secret dragnet electronic surveillance and data mining program conducted on a vast scale by the NSA after 9/11. This program violated and subverted the Constitution as well as individual sovereignty and privacy, while weakening national security and fundamentally eroding civil liberties. In April 2010 he was charged by the US Department of Justice with a 10 felony count Espionage Act indictment facing 35 years in prison, until the government's case against him collapsed in June 2011. He is the 2011 recipient of the Ridenhour Prize for Truth Telling.

Originalpublikation:
https://www.khm.de/termine/news.5829.thomas-drake-the-golden-age-of-surveillance--reflections-on-society-technocracy-and-our-humanity/