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Business The privacy-invading, junk science "home DNA test" industry is cratering Cory Doctorow

facial recognition NIST confirms that facial recognition is a racist, sexist dumpster-fire Cory Doctorow

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Business Genetic genealogy company Gedmatch acquired by company with ties to FBI & law enforcement—why you should be worried Jennifer Lynch

algorithmic racism The Chinese version of 23andMe purports to tell you what percentage Uighur you are John Struan

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racism Teacher suspended after Halloween blackface rap Rob Beschizza

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News New federal rules will limit police searches of DNA ancestry databases Xeni Jardin

History Mystery deepens: dead of Skeleton Lake weren't killed by a hailstorm, say scientists Rob Beschizza

elections Elizabeth Warren publishes a massive, detailed plan for addressing the injustice of US relations with indigenous American peoples Cory Doctorow

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