The Digital Life Seminar series offers students and guests an opportunity to engage actively with leading scholars and practitioners researching and responding to the development and application of digital technologies. Stay tuned for more information soon!

Today, states, companies, and extremist actors are increasingly weaponizing surveillance, law, censorship, and technology to chill, manipulate, and repress us. And as the Trump administration's deeply chilling recent actions demonstrate, it is not only surveillance capitalism or overreaching national security driving these threats: the aim is often to chill critics, dissenting speech, democratic opposition, and victimize disfavored groups. Now, with far right/extremist movements established in the North America, Europe, Asia, and beyond, how these threats chill fundamental rights and are corrosive to democratic societies is a national and international concern.