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Friend, Join us at the Film Forum this Friday, December 8th  at 7:30, where our Executive Director Albert Fox Cahn will be speaking with producer Michael Grotenhoff about his new documentary Total Trust. Through the haunting stories of people in China who have been monitored, intimidated and even tortured, Total Trust sparks a global debate about the dangers that Big Data and AI pose to individual freedoms. Get your tickets to the screening + Q&A below, and use code STOP to get $4 off generally priced tickets! Buy Your Tickets Here! Ever wonder how surveillance tech would change your favorite Christmas movies? While you wait for Total Trust, check out how today’s technologies would have fit into a few holiday classics. A Christmas Carol If the Christmas Ghosts had just directed Ebenezer Scrooge to his local precinct, the credits would have rolled much sooner. Using a “predictive policing” software, Ebenezer’s fate could have been determined with a few keystrokes. Without having learned any lessons, he goes right back to being mean old Scrooge. The Polar Express Who drives locomotives anymore? The local neighborhood kids are picked up in a brand-new fleet of Teslas, and, well-versed on protecting their personal information, opt out of data collection. To their surprise, the state-of-the-art Teslas inform them that choosing to protect their data could result in “reduced functionality, serious damage, or inoperability.” The kids decide it’s not worth the hassle and postpone their trip to the North Pole. Die Hard When John McClane gets in his first fight of the night, his opponent slips an Apple Air Tag in his pocket. Even though McClane wins the round, Hanz Gruber eventually uses the Air Tag’s precise location tracking technology to take care of the hero before he causes any more problems. Christmas movie or not, it wouldn’t last long with today’s surveillance tech. While they could have put a damper on holiday classics, there’s still time to fight surveillance technologies in our own lives. Thanks to a generous donor, any donation made to S.T.O.P. from now until December 31st will be matched five times over. Your support always goes a long way at S.T.O.P., only now it will go five times further! Donate now to help stop mass surveillance.   Make your impact today! Warmest regards, Gabe Quagliata Share Tweet Forward Copyright © 2023 STOP, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: STOP 40 Rector Street 9th Floor New York, NY 10006