Business Ubisoft's gamer survey first asks if you're female, and terminates if you say "yes" — UPDATED Cory Doctorow
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facial recognition NIST confirms that facial recognition is a racist, sexist dumpster-fire Cory Doctorow
racism Amazon secretly planned to use facial recognition and Ring doorbells to create neighborhood "watch lists" Cory Doctorow
Business "Out of Home Advertising": the billboards that spy on you as you move through public spaces Cory Doctorow
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Business Facebook has filed a laughable patent-application for the well-known practice of "shadow banning" Cory Doctorow
surveillance Amazon's secret deals with cops gave corporate PR a veto over everything the cops said about their products Cory Doctorow
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