Tools for examining algorithmic bias, surveillance systems, discriminatory design, and community resistance — built from SFPC Code Societies curricula on code as social and political technology.
Pick a domain — hiring algorithms, lending models, facial recognition, predictive policing — and trace how racial hierarchies get encoded in training data and model design. Theory meets real systems.
Choose a surveillance technology — biometric databases, social media monitoring, predictive policing tools — and trace its institutional origin, its stated justification, and how it has actually been deployed.
Examine a real interface or system design and identify the assumptions encoded in it — whose experience was centered in the design, whose was excluded, and what that exclusion produces in practice.
Explore how incarceration intersects with economic structures — prison labor markets, the bail bond industry, private prison contracts, the school-to-prison pipeline. How profit and punishment interlock.
Read case studies of communities that pushed back against surveillance or algorithmic control — facial recognition bans, data strikes, encryption adoption, legal challenges. What strategies succeeded and why.
