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Business White House plan to use data to shrink prison populations could be a racist dumpster fire Cory Doctorow
Technology NYC will require businesses to prove A.I. employment software isn't racist or sexist Ruben Bolling
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media "Zombie" magazines: prestigious publications raised from the dead by hucksters, extremists and morons Rob Beschizza
politics More reporting links Clearview AI to Trump-aligned racists, neo-Nazis, and alt-right trolls Xeni Jardin
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facial recognition NIST confirms that facial recognition is a racist, sexist dumpster-fire Cory Doctorow
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