As tech companies have grown and expanded their global reach, there has been increasingly visible backlash and resistance against their practices from both inside and outside the industry.
This timeline is the digitized version of one of Tactical Tech’s The Glass Room exhibits. It highlights more than 100 protests over the last ten years selected from publicly available information. It offers a view into the consequences of tech companies’ decisions, policies, and practices and their impact on their workforce, users, contractors, vendors, clients, and customers.
The timeline also reveals the recent trend toward collective worker resistance within Big Tech. Some of these protests have yielded attention and results, while others have flown under the radar or been overlooked by the media. With governments slow to regulate, and companies reluctant or failing at self-regulation, could these protests point toward a form of accountability?
This digital timeline is brought to you by Tactical Tech and TechEquity Collaborative and sponsored Firefox. It was designed and built by volunteers from TechEquity Collaborative who generously donated their time and skills to digitize the protest timeline: Jesse Luo, Vikas Shukla, and Vincent Van Buskirk.
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About Glass Room:
The Glass Room looks like a sleek tech pop up, but as you look closer you see nothing is for sale. Instead there is a collection of art, design, and technology objects that explore data, privacy and our relationship with the technologies and platforms we use in our everyday lives. The Glass Room exhibition is an immersive, self-learning experience that
has opened in Berlin, New York, London and most recently in San Francisco attracting over 60,000 visitors. The Glass Room has taken several formats that are smaller like the Glass
Room Plus or the Community Editions which have attracted another 100,000
visitors in the past two years.
About Tactical Tech:
Tactical Tech is an International NGO that aims to investigate and mitigate the impact of technology on society by using art and education interventions to engage with citizens, artists, media and civil society. Based in Berlin, we have an interdisciplinary team of technologists, researchers, designers and production experts. Since 2003, we have
worked to demystify the impact of technology by creating high-quality, accessible resources and engaging cultural spaces.
About TechEquity Collaborative:
TechEquity Collaborative is a non-profit organization that believes the tech industry can and should contribute to broad-based growth that benefits everyone. That instead of being a force for displacement and inequality, tech can create opportunity and widespread prosperity. TechEquity is a member-driven organization made up of individuals and companies that share our values. We educate people in the tech sector around housing and workforce & labor issues and activate them to make change in those key areas. One of the ways we do this is by partnering with tech volunteers to build civic tech projects that further these initiatives.
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About the Project:
As tech companies have grown and expanded their global reach, there has been increasingly visible backlash and resistance against their practices from both inside and outside the industry.
This timeline is the digitized version of one of Tactical Tech’s The Glass Room exhibits. It highlights more than 100 protests over the last ten years selected from publicly available information. It offers a view into the consequences of tech companies’ decisions, policies, and practices and their impact on their workforce, users, contractors, vendors, clients, and customers.
The timeline also reveals the recent trend toward collective worker resistance within Big Tech. Some of these protests have yielded attention and results, while others have flown under the radar or been overlooked by the media. With governments slow to regulate, and companies reluctant or failing at self-regulation, could these protests point toward a form of accountability?
This digital timeline is brought to you by Tactical Tech and TechEquity Collaborative and sponsored Firefox. It was designed and built by volunteers from TechEquity Collaborative who generously donated their time and skills to digitize the protest timeline: Jesse Luo, Vikas Shukla, and Vincent Van Buskirk.
<Insert any info you guys would like to put about yourself here!>
About Glass Room:
The Glass Room looks like a sleek tech pop up, but as you look closer you see nothing is for sale. Instead there is a collection of art, design, and technology objects that explore data, privacy and our relationship with the technologies and platforms we use in our everyday lives. The Glass Room exhibition is an immersive, self-learning experience that has opened in Berlin, New York, London and most recently in San Francisco attracting over 60,000 visitors. The Glass Room has taken several formats that are smaller like the Glass Room Plus or the Community Editions which have attracted another 100,000 visitors in the past two years.
About Tactical Tech:
Tactical Tech is an International NGO that aims to investigate and mitigate the impact of technology on society by using art and education interventions to engage with citizens, artists, media and civil society. Based in Berlin, we have an interdisciplinary team of technologists, researchers, designers and production experts. Since 2003, we have worked to demystify the impact of technology by creating high-quality, accessible resources and engaging cultural spaces.
About TechEquity Collaborative:
TechEquity Collaborative is a non-profit organization that believes the tech industry can and should contribute to broad-based growth that benefits everyone. That instead of being a force for displacement and inequality, tech can create opportunity and widespread prosperity. TechEquity is a member-driven organization made up of individuals and companies that share our values. We educate people in the tech sector around housing and workforce & labor issues and activate them to make change in those key areas. One of the ways we do this is by partnering with tech volunteers to build civic tech projects that further these initiatives.