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 Seamus 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
class war Though crime happens everywhere, predictive policing tools send cops to poor/black neighborhoods Cory Doctorow
china Leaked documents document China's plan for mass arrests and concentration-camp internment of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang Cory Doctorow
computer science "Intellectual Debt": It's bad enough when AI gets its predictions wrong, but it's potentially WORSE when AI gets it right Cory Doctorow
Business Police cameras to be augmented with junk-science "microexpression" AI lie-detectors Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Chasing down that list of potential Predpol customers reveals dozens of cities that have secretly experimented with "predictive policing" Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Garbage In, Garbage Out: machine learning has not repealed the iron law of computer science Cory Doctorow
surveillance Chelsea Manning: we're spied on all the time, and the state still can't figure out who we are Cory Doctorow
