Some thoughts on the legal and ethical implications of ‘vaccine passports’ (thread)— Adam Wagner (@AdamWagner1) March 4, 2021

Algorithms are meaningless without good data. The public can exploit that to demand change.

Computer vision technology has lower accuracy rates for black females

BAME couriers working for Uber Eats and Uber claim that the company’s flawed identification technology is costing them their livelihoods

With remote learning now the norm, universities are using surveillance software to keep tabs on students who are not engaging with their studies

Guide on how the UK’s borders, immigrations, and citizenship system tracks and spies on people, and which companies profit.

How did the internet giants come to dominate our world? Big Tech firms are now some of the richest and most powerful entities on the planet – and we’re starting to see the effects of this extreme concentration of power, in the shocking ways these platforms have been used to manipulate our elections, violate our privacy, and threaten the social fabric of our societies. But it hasn’t always been like this: not so long ago, much of Silicon Valley operated on an optimistic, altruistic ethos, aiming to make information free and the world better connected. What happened? In the latest RSA Short, ...

Facial Recognition Technology is being used in a supermarket

Ed Bridges, 37, from Cardiff, brought a legal challenge after having his image captured twice.

Branches of Co-op in the south of England have been using real-time facial recognition cameras to scan shoppers entering stores. § See US based studies on FRT which shows the technology can be unreliable for black people, especially black women.