Just spoke to @npr about what I’m now calling “content moderation-washing”: when platforms make a show of good citizenship by a. making an exceptional new policy b. enforced by the least empowered, most precarious workers that c. is relatively easy to implement.— Sarah T. Roberts (@ubiquity75) October 3, 2020

I want to create a repository of some of the more relevant threads I've created over the years all in one easier-to-find spot, so here you go. Thread-ception. A thread of threads.For all your privacy, law, tech, and terrible movie needs.— Vampiri-Calli Sucking Up Your Data (@Iwillleavenow) September 27, 2020

A survey of 2,200+ global business and IT leaders shows how organizations can leverage the technologies driving a data revolution.

The ProctorU software— even the Review+ version— is harmful and invasive to students. pic.twitter.com/YsqampMZco— Devon Cantwell (@devon_cantwell) September 30, 2020

This will be interesting

Given that Facebook’s Community Standards Enforcement Report (CSER) is considered the industry gold standard, it may seem counterproductive to criticize it. But for outsiders wishing to assess Facebook’s enforcement of its rules the CSER provides little value. (1) https://t.co/4A7CayDcU9— Rafiq Copeland (@RafiqCopeland) September 28, 2020

Fixing Facebook’s Community Standards Enforcement Report

James Melville explains why slavery isn't just a historic issue of statues and how your mobile phone contributes to the modern enslavement of 40 million people

The second annual CyFyAfrica 2019, The Conference on Technology, Innovation, and Society [1] took place in Tangier, Morocco, 7 – 9 June 2019. It was a vibrant, diverse and dynamic gathering …

Apparently losing rights to data and legal recourse is not enough of a reason to inspect online contracts. So how can websites get users to read the fine print?

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A 6,600-word internal memo from a fired Facebook data scientist details how the social network knew about specific examples of global political manipulation — and failed to act.

We've been trying to teach "ethics" for years. Teaching AI ethics to organizations is proving to be just as problematic. Yet as the urgency of ethical AI increases, we need a way forward. What are the options?

Historic legislation makes Portland a leader in a nationwide trend to regulate facial recognition technology.

Michael Oliver is the second Black man found to be wrongfully arrested by Detroit police because of the technology—and his lawyers suspect there are many more.

Listen to @AOC. pic.twitter.com/gVAYqeEQzW https://t.co/B4lLQGWqR1— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) September 4, 2020

If you work for Bank of America, or the US Army, you might have used technology developed by Humanyze. The company grew out of research at MIT’s cross-disciplinary Media Lab and describes its products as “science-backed analytics to drive adaptability.” If that sounds vague, it might be deliberate. Among the things Humanyze sells to businesses…

If you write code for a living, there’s a chance that at some point in your career, someone will ask you to code something a little deceitful – if not outright unethical. This happened to me back in the year 2000. And it’s something I’ll never be able to forget. I wrote my first line of code at 6 years old. I’m no prodigy though. I had a lot of help from my dad at the time. But I was hooked. I loved it. By the time I was 15, I was working part-time for my dad’s consulting firm. I built websit

Families were subjected to around-the-clock visits from deputies, who often arrived without evidence of a crime.

Edgenuity involves short answers graded by an algorithm, and students have already cracked it

Amba Kak was in law school in India when the country rolled out the Aadhaar project in 2009. The national biometric ID system, conceived as a comprehensive identity program, sought to collect the fingerprints, iris scans, and photographs of all residents. It wasn’t long, Kak remembers, before stories about its devastating consequences began to spread.…

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Facebook is sort of banning political ads in the week before the 2020 election and making other well-intentioned tweaks. That’s not nearly enough.

Palantir powers Ice immigration raids, the defense sector and police surveillance. It is the big tobacco of the tech world

On August 31, Airbnb launched Project Lighthouse, an initiative meant to “uncover, measure, and overcome discrimination” on the home-sharing platform. According to the company, Project Lighthouse will identify discrimination by measuring whether a renter’s perceived race correlates with differences in the rate or quality of that person’s bookings, cancellations, or reviews. This project comes amid…

The former FBI agent Peter Strzok worries that Americans will never learn the full story about Trump’s relationship with Russia.

Social media is unquestionably the vector for increasingly dangerous misinformation.

The company is surveilling dozens of private Facebook groups in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain, according to an internal web tool and reports left on the open internet.

Amazon and IBM get Covid screening systems from companies that use their technology to oppress minority groups