christ what an asshole Palantir has figured out how to make money by using algorithms to ascribe guilt to people, now they're looking for new customers Cory Doctorow
trumpism Coalition of 100+ tech groups and leaders warn the DHS that "extreme vetting" software will be a worse-than-useless, discriminatory nightmare Cory Doctorow
corruption Trump's spy agencies say AI vendors will sell them needle-detection tools for infinite haystacks Cory Doctorow
surveillance Case study of LAPD and Palantir's predictive policing tool: same corruption; new, empirical respectability Cory Doctorow
fbi "Do you go camping or play paintball?" and 47 other questions from the FBI's secret terrorist-detection questionnaire Cory Doctorow
media "Zombie" magazines: prestigious publications raised from the dead by hucksters, extremists and morons Rob Beschizza
california Good news: California ends cash bail! Bad news: It's been replaced with a black-box algorithm. Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Automating Inequality: using algorithms to create a modern "digital poor-house" Cory Doctorow
Copyfight A glimpse of the European Commission's plans for ham-fisted, indiscriminate mass online censorship Cory Doctorow
Business White House plan to use data to shrink prison populations could be a racist dumpster fire Cory Doctorow
Science Algorithmic guilt: defendants must be able to inspect source code in forensic devices Cory Doctorow
politics Why the DHS's pre-crime biometric profiling is doomed to fail, and will doom passengers with its failures Cory Doctorow
