This session will teach journalists how to filter procurement data, map companies dealing with invasive surveillance equipment, and identify highly indicative tenders for spy tech.
In this session, you’ll learn key principles of how invasive surveillance technologies are procured and operated, which will help you boost your research by using the right keywords, official terminology, and industry slangl, and help you uncover specialized surveillance tools hidden in plain sight. You will also learn about other resources and tools that can help you find information on the surveillance industry, and how to turn these leads into an investigative story on state surveillance.
In the session, we'll discuss how to use tools like web scraping, AI-powered data analysis, and semantic search techniques that can significantly speed up your investigation process, but no knowledge of data analysis or programming is needed to attend the session.
