Whole Foods wants you to pay with your palm. Border patrol wants to scan your face when you come back from a trip. Automated license plate readers track you as you drive on the Mass Pike. Artificial intelligence powered surveillance systems are already reshaping our society. Join us for a Q&A with Evan Greer, director of Fight for the Future, to learn about the growing movement against biometric surveillance, and why tech and civil liberties experts see it as an existential threat to our most basic rights. Read some of Evan's writing on the topic in the Boston Globe and Buzzfeed, or hear her on NPR.

Fight for the Future has led some of the highest profile campaigns around facial recognition and palm scanning surveillance. The group worked with prominent artists like Rage Against the Machine, Amanda Palmer, Sean Ono Lennon, and Bikini Kill to lead boycotts of music venues that use biometric surveillance tech. The campaigns garnered widespread media coverage and led to dozens of venues pledging to abandon the tech, including Red Rocks, the iconic Denver music venue. Fight for the Future led a similar campaign that got more than 60 colleges and universities to pledge not to use facial recognition on campus.

Evan Greer (she/her or they/them) is a trans and queer activist, writer, and musician based in Boston. She's the director of the viral digital rights group Fight for the Future and an expert on issues at the intersection of tech policy and human rights, particularly surrounding LGBTQ+ communities and free expression. Greer tours internationally as a speaker and performer, is a regular guest on TV and radio, and writes frequently for outlets like the Washington Post, CNN, Time, NBC Newsweek, and WIRED. Her last album, "Spotify is Surveillance," was featured by NPR, Rolling Stone and Pitchfork and hit the very bottom of the Billboard charts.