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Thami Nkosi: Oral Histories of Surveillance
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 movement is the similar thing as having to have pass…
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Ingrid Burrington: Oral Histories of Surveillance
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. But the ideologies of mineral extraction and data extraction are…
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Tranae’ Moran: Oral Histories of Surveillance
[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 best way to describe this thing in every form. Because…
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Gunshot detection technology and the reproduction of targeting Black, immigrant, and working class communities
[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 add-on to police surveillance systems that egregiously target those…
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Rashida Richardson: Oral Histories of Surveillance
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 Richardson Our Data Bodies (ODB) is excited to present…
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Race, tech, and medicine: Remarks from Dr. Dorothy Roberts and Dr. Ruha Benjamin
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 of racial justice uprisings, which fit into a…