Lectures on Tap - "Cellphone Surveillance"

Join us for an engaging evening where professors, experts, and storytellers bring their thought-provoking lectures to your favorite bar in the Lower East Side, Manhattan!

Hosted by the Lectures on Tap team.

🗓️ Date: August 22nd, 2025

🕡 Time: 6:30 PM

📍 Location: Lower East Side Manhattan (exact address provided in confirmation email)

📚 Lecture: “Cellphone Surveillance”

🎤 Speaker: BBC Tech Reporter, Thomas Germain

Your phone isn't listening to you, but you might be surprised at what it knows. Join Thomas Germain for an eye-opening dive into the hidden world of cellphone surveillance and targeted advertising. Discover how the systems that power digital ads are tracking your every move and predicting information about you, often before you're even born.

In this thought-provoking lecture, Thomas will unravel the unsettling truth behind how our personal information is harvested and used. You'll learn about the complexities of technology dependency in our daily lives and the implications it has for privacy and individual freedom.

Thomas Germain is a senior technology journalist with the BBC, where he writes about the intersection of technology and society. With his expertise, he sheds light on how we use technology—and how technology, in turn, uses us.

Don’t miss this chance to uncover the truth about cellphone surveillance in our increasingly digital world!

Get a drink, connect, and learn at Lectures on Tap! 🙌

Agenda

6:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.

6:55 PM – Host introduction

7:00 PM – Lecture begins

7:45 PM – Audience Q&A

8:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round

8:30 PM – Wrap up.