leaks Antipolygraph.org publishes secret guidelines for the federal "Test for Espionage and Sabotage," a psuedoscientific feature of government life Cory Doctorow
authoritarianism Cops and spooks all over the world rely on a junk-science "walking polygraph" method to steer their investigation Cory Doctorow
twitter German researchers with ties to for-profit "neuromarketing" company want to use AI to guess peoples' "intelligence" from their writing Cory Doctorow
Gadgets Report from a massive Chinese surveillance tech expo, where junk-science "emotion recognition" rules Cory Doctorow
class war When the HR department is a robotic phrenologist: "face-scanning algorithm" gains popularity as a job-applicant screener Cory Doctorow
Business Ernst and Young subjected women employees to "training" about keeping the company's men happy Cory Doctorow
psychology Eminent psychologists condemn "emotion detection" systems as being grounded in junk science Cory Doctorow
Science Profile of Peter Thiel's "junk science" journal from someone asked to write for it Rob Beschizza
security If you're an American of European descent, your stupid cousins have probably put you in vast commercial genomic databases Cory Doctorow
labor The Big Lie: how polygraph companies convinced the US government to use pseudoscience on job applicants Cory Doctorow
uk Welsh police deployed facial recognition tech with a 92% false positive rate, but they're sure it's fine Cory Doctorow
uk It's back! British Conservative politicians' habitual "go ahead, kick me in the balls, I can take it" pose Cory Doctorow
Science Neurobollocks with Chinese characteristics: Chinese employers use "brain wave sensors" to tune workforces Cory Doctorow
uk UK police train machine-learning model using Experian data that stereotypes people based on garden size, first names, and postal codes Cory Doctorow
Business Just because Cambridge Analytica tells its customers it can sway elections, it doesn't follow that they're any good at it Cory Doctorow
Science For more than half a century, the sugar industry has used Big Tobacco tactics to suppress sugar/cancer link and to confuse the science Cory Doctorow
