And so that's when I kind of decided to start to do a newsletter that focused on surveillance and anti-surveillance specifically. Because as somebody who is Black and Muslim, and so from two communities, or one community, you know, the intersections are from communities who...
When people were saying around, defunding the police, and that being couched within the overall vision of abolition, but just thinking about how so many resources are being put into death dealing institutions when, just like looking at the pandemic alone, alone, so many people...
And so we see this, and then we have our period apps giving off information to companies like Facebook who send it to different companies and governments. [They] are able to use all this information without our consent to regulate our bodies, how much contraceptives...
[The City of Bayamón] has invited research in the Internet of Things and has partnered with T-Mobile, just to see if they can produce different commercial uses for IoT technologies. I'm looking at it because there are no controls as to how government plays a...
And the complexities then therefore with this work is to be able to draw those parallels and simplify them for people to understand, to say the fact that you can't go to Tokai, for example, without somebody sitting in some control room, and watching your...
It's encouraging to see increased attention to and understanding of the extractive dimensions of computation. I think for a lot of software-oriented researchers, talking about mineral supply chains feels like something that's not their problem, or at least not related to the problems they face....
[O]ur message could have been co-opted multiple times by different people. We had to be clear that we are completely against biometric collecting software in residential properties anywhere in this city, not just here, and not just facial. Wwe have to figure out what's the...
[Original illustration and credit for Coda Story: Aigerim Ismagulova] Police stations across the United States increasingly rely on gunshot detection technology, extolling its virtues under the guise of increased safety and quicker, more predictive responses to “crime.” However, in-depth investigation reveals this technology functions as an...
I find the privacy frame as an approach to only challenging intrusions by technology has also help put us in this position where we don't have laws that actually grapple with the diversity of the people in our society and how technology affects them differently. —Rashida...
Image Credit: Ruha Benjamin (website) This past July, Dr. Dorothy Roberts and Dr. Ruha Benjamin participated in Policing without the police: Race, Technology, and the New Jim Code, an online talk facilitated by Haymarket Books. The two scholars spoke about their work and the current moment...
