police Chicago PD's predictive policing tool has been shut down after 8 years of catastrophically bad results Cory Doctorow
racism Amazon secretly planned to use facial recognition and Ring doorbells to create neighborhood "watch lists" Cory Doctorow
corruption Mysterious New Orleans "anti-crime" camera emblazoned with NOPD logos outside surveillance contractor's house is disavowed by NOPD Cory Doctorow
corruption Beyond GIGO: how "predictive policing" launders racism, corruption and bias to make them seem empirical Cory Doctorow
surveillance Is this the full list of US cities that have bought or considered Predpol's predictive policing services? Cory Doctorow
Business The ACLU showed that Amazon's facial recognition system thinks members of Congress are felons, so now Congress is taking action Cory Doctorow
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
police New Orleans Police used predictive policing without telling the city's elected officials Séamus Bellamy
happy mutants Automating Inequality: using algorithms to create a modern "digital poor-house" Cory Doctorow
books I Can't Breathe: Matt Taibbi's scorching book on the murder of Eric Garner and the system that let the killers get away with it Cory Doctorow
police Though crime happens everywhere, predictive policing tools send cops to poor/black neighborhoods Cory Doctorow
maps See what the White Collar Crime Early Warning System (WCCEWS) thinks of your neighborhood Elías Villoro
Boing Boing Gadgets The Serafim Keybo turns any flat surface into a full-sized keyboard Boing Boing's Shop
china Leaked documents document China's plan for mass arrests and concentration-camp internment of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang Cory Doctorow
AI "Intellectual Debt": It's bad enough when AI gets its predictions wrong, but it's potentially WORSE when AI gets it right Cory Doctorow
