Korica Simon is an attorney based in Rochester, NY. She has previously worked as an Assistant Public Defender and was an associate at the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown University Law Center. She was also an adjunct professor at Georgetown. Korica has focused her career on researching and writing on the surveillance of marginalized communities. She has written articles on facial recognition technology, FOSTA/SESTA, and the criminalization of activists.
Surveillance has been used on citizen activists for decades. What can civil society do to fight back against the growing trend of widespread digital surveillance?
Law enforcement agencies in the US regularly deploy surveillance tactics to monitor the online activity of individuals and organizations, leaving the public in the dark about how this data is used and stored. Korica Simon offers a set of actions that federal agencies and Congress should implement to preserve the public’s constitutional rights.