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Leila Lalami discusses surveillance, data and selfhood at Pasadena 1 City, 1 Story event
Summary
Author Leila Lalami told a Pasadena audience that her novel The Dream Hotel explores data collection, privacy and selfhood, citing a 2014 phone notification as the seed for the book and warning that surveillance disproportionately targets marginalized groups.
Leila Lalami, author of The Dream Hotel, told an audience at Pasadena’s 24th annual 1 City, 1 Story event that her novel uses speculative fiction to examine who owns the data our bodies and devices produce and whether such data can be used against people.
Lalami described a 2014 incident that inspired the book: she received a phone notification suggesting she leave immediately in order to reach her yoga studio on time, despite not having told any…
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