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Civic Tech Toronto @civictechto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

👉️️ Tue Sept 8 → 7pm • in-person & online What can apps learn about your health from your voice, your cough, and other sounds? Stephen J. Neville (@silentrecord.bsky.social) tracks a decade of growing privacy and discrimination risks! ✚ discussions & breakouts! guild.host/events/civic...

Event graphic for Civic Tech Toronto Meetup #559, part of the September Series "Defending our privacy and access rights," Tuesday September 8th at 7pm, in person and online. Co-branded with the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario. Speaker Stephen J. Neville presents "Creeped Out: Privacy and Discrimination Risks of Health-related Machine Listening." Photo of Stephen, a smiling man with curly brown hair and a short beard wearing a dark blue shirt. Pink and orange gradient background.

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

#SuicideResearch This work is incredibly important, please share, amplify. This is happening and there are currently few if any safeguards to protect us. This affects all of us but especially the most vulnerable who are impacted more by the bias and error in these systems. + lack of accountability

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Stephen Neville @silentrecord.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

After a year of research, our report on the health-related machine listening industry is out. We mapped over 200 patents linked to 64 AI applications and products that analyze voices and other bodily sounds to generate health inferences — with major gaps in transparency and consent.

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Stephen Neville @silentrecord.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

If you're in the Toronto area, join up for this Surveillance Stroll organized by Technologists for Democracy!

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Technologists for Democracy @techfordemocracy.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

We are hosting a Jane's walk on Sunday May 3rd! Join us on a walk from Union to St Andrew’s as we lead you on a privacy tour to better understand how privacy laws and rights look in practice across Toronto. Participants will use a ‘Privacy Checklist’ to spot privacy risks. luma.com/ja6l848q

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Jane's Walk - The Surveillance Stroll · Luma

Each day, we pass buildings and streets with cameras recording our movements, all hidden in plain sight. Have you ever wondered what role do cameras and other…

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Stephen Neville @silentrecord.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Today marks Data Privacy Day, an international initiative dedicated to promoting awareness and best practices around privacy protection. In recognition of this occasion, I'm pleased to share an updated version of the digital literacy primer, “Understanding Machine Listening and Voice Data Privacy”.

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Stephen Neville @silentrecord.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

If you live in North America, the next time you call the police, your call may be answered by AI. This week, the Toronto Police Service announced it will begin using a voice AI system developed by Hyper for 811 non-emergency calls.

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Stephen Neville @silentrecord.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

48 hours until our event, Understanding Machine Listening and Voice Data Privacy, as part of 2025 Media Literacy Week! We’re excited to share a new resource on digital literacy and machine listening. Take a look at the draft primer: drive.google.com/file/d/15lJw... @mediasmarts.bsky.social

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Stephen Neville @silentrecord.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Ever wonder if Alexa or Siri hear more than they should? Come to an online interactive session covering this question and more on Oct. 29th, as part of Media Literacy Week (Oct. 27-31).

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Stephen Neville @silentrecord.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

People in crisis are reaching out for human support and increasingly the response they get is shaped by generative AI. I wrote about how gen AI is reshaping crisis support, and why that should concern all of us advocating for responsible and trustworthy crisis counselling and peer support.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 27/03/2025

people always dismiss the data privacy concerns—like hmm don’t collect unnecessary data on sensitive populations, because it can be used against them and now the city of San Antonio is handing over data on every person that came through our migrant center because they need FEMA reimbursements

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Stephen Neville @silentrecord.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” -Alvin Toffler I.e. The illiterate of the 21st century will be those using generative AI when they should be doing some thinking for themselves.

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

i'm continuing to try raising awareness: exploitation of persons, vulnerable, who use & answer #CrisisLines. To have this work amplified by s.o. so dedicated to protections for vulnerable & expert in subject matter, feels such an honor. grateful! We can end exploitation #CrisisLineWorkers #organize

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Stephen Neville @silentrecord.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

It seems like a distant memory when news broke in 2022 from Politico about the data sharing partnership between Crisis Text Line and Loris.ai – a subsidiary that used crisis conversation data to create AI models for customer service support. The story is ongoing. www.politico.com/news/2022/01...

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Stephen Neville @silentrecord.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I'm wondering if folks would share their approach to community agreements in the post-secondary classroom? Do you start with a blank template or provide some anchoring principles/values to add to, revise, etc.?

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Stephen Neville @silentrecord.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

In the weeds of writing today with a great big stack of books on Métis culture and history.

A big stack of books related to Metis culture and history.

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Surveillance Studies Network @survstudiesnet.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

A fabulous new issue of Surveillance & Society is out now, the last one of 2024. This open issue offers six original articles, a special Dialogue Section on the surveillance dimensions of “Synthetic Data,” and two book reviews. #surveillance #data #academicsky ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

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Vol. 22 No. 4 (2024): Open Issue | Surveillance & Society

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Stephen Neville @silentrecord.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

What is privacy-washing and how is it manipulative and concerning? Tech corporations have gotten savvier in promoting their digital products, services, and platforms as privacy-protective or privacy-respectful. Privacy-washing is akin to green-washing but for privacy and surveillance concerns.

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Stephen Neville @silentrecord.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Looking forward to this presentation on Crisis Text Line at #SCMS @scmstudies.bsky.social. See you in Chicago in April!

A screenshot of an email that reads: Dear Stephen J. Neville, on behalf of the 2025 Conference Program Committee for the Society for Cinema & Media Studies, I am pleased to inform you that your proposal was accepted. Congratulations!

Title: From the Volunteers of Crisis Text Line: Data, Listening, and Transduction

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Stephen Neville @silentrecord.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

#NCA2024 folks: I'll also be part of a great panel in discussion of Heather Woods's new book, "Threshold" on smart homes. Come if you're interested in space, digital rhetorics, platform surveillance, and gender. This is happening tomorrow morning: 11am- Napoleon B1 - Sheraton

Book cover for Woods's "Threshold: How Smart Homes Change Us Inside and Out". There is an illustration of a house on the blue cover.

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Stephen Neville @silentrecord.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Giving this talk tomorrow on Metis ownership of archived sound recordings and a land-based research creation project at #NCA2024. Hoping to meet some fellow Indigenous Caucus attendees! 9:30-10:45am as part of the Ethnography Division. Mardi Gras A at the Marriott.

Picture of a metis sash on the forest floor with a superimposed title that reads: Metis ethnography for greater regard: from colonial archives to Indigenous silent records.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 14/11/2024

Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.

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Stephen Neville @silentrecord.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

In light of the recent attacks on the @archive.org, the political importance of the @waybackmachine.bsky.social has never been more apparent. www.npr.org/2024/10/20/n... I'm teaching a workshop at York University today to give first-year students an introduction to the Wayback Machine.

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Lilian Radovac @lilianradovac.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Someone already has. go.bsky.app/C4kFqqD

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