An alarming report outlines an extensive pattern of racial discrimination within the city’s police department.
By Sam Richards and Tate Ryan-Mosley for MIT Technology Review on April 27, 2022
Kunstmatige intelligentie wordt een steeds groter onderdeel van ons leven. Het speelt een rol in onze opleiding, in ons werk, maar ook in ons dagelijks leven. Soms zelfs zonder dat we het door hebben. Maar wat zijn de voor- en nadelen van kunstmatige intelligentie? En hoe kan het bijdragen aan gelijke kansen?
By Robin Pocornie, Sander Heithuis and Xanne Visser for WOMEN Inc. on April 25, 2022
Author Tarcízio Silva on how algorithmic racism exposes the myth of “racial democracy.”
By Alex González Ormerod and Tarcízio Silva for Rest of World on April 22, 2022
Techno-capitalism is re-negotiating the social contract but knowledge about technologies is too often sequestered behind the lock doors of industry. Black women researchers like Dr. Timnit Gebru who raised alarm about the racial and ecological implications of emergent technologies are systematically silenced and forced out. Additionally, corporate capture of academic departments has even further limited the space to do critical research. Given these obstacles, how can researchers both inside and outside of tech companies do the difficult work of research, critique, and resistance? When individualist opportunism is the guiding norm of knowledge production, how do we cultivate a practice of transformative justice in the context of tech research? What are the set of tools and collective histories Black people in the Americas and the Black global diaspora can draw on in order to care for each other in the process of producing research about tech?
By Safiya Noble and Timnit Gebru for YouTube on March 31, 2022
Moeten we het internet blijven ‘aanpassen’ en ‘repareren’, of is het tijd om ons onze samenleving radicaal opnieuw voor te stellen en grondig te evalueren hoe het internet ons allemaal van dienst kan zijn?
By Nani Jansen Reventlow for De Groene Amsterdammer on April 9, 2022
To avoid angering the almighty algorithm, people are creating a new vocabulary.
By Taylor Lorenz for Washington Post on April 8, 2022
The startup promises a fairly-distributed, cryptocurrency-based universal basic income. So far all it’s done is build a biometric database from the bodies of the poor.
By Adi Renaldi, Antoaneta Rouss, Eileen Guo and Lujain Alsedeg for MIT Technology Review on April 6, 2022
In their own words, former Tesla employees describe what they call a racist work environment that led California to file a civil rights lawsuit against the company.
By Margot Roosevelt and Russ Mitchell for Los Angeles Times on March 25, 2022
Hoewel de ‘normen en waarden’ van het internet soms anders doen vermoeden, mag je foto’s waarop auteursrecht berust niet zomaar overal gebruiken. Het Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau, oftewel ANP, maakt daarom gebruik van een Belgische auteursrechtentrol – Permission Machine – om illegaal gebruik op te sporen en direct te beboeten. Hans de Zwart, bestuurslid van het Racism and Technology Center, ondervond dat zelf. We spreken met hem én Edouard van Arem, manager foto bij ANP.
By Edouard van Arem, Hans de Zwart and Joe van Burik for BNR Nieuwsradio on March 23, 2022
A conversation about the unholy trinity of whiteness, modernity, and capitalism.
By André Brock for Logic on December 25, 2021
A government leader in Argentina hailed the AI, which was fed invasive data about girls. The feminist pushback could inform the future of health tech.
By Alexa Hagerty, Diego Jemio and Florencia Aranda for WIRED on February 16, 2022
De Eerste Kamer doet onderzoek naar de effectiviteit van wetgeving tegen discriminatie. Wij mochten afgelopen vrijdag de parlementsleden vertellen over discriminatie en algoritmen. Hieronder volgt de kern van ons verhaal.
By Nadia Benaissa for Bits of Freedom on February 8, 2022
Two residents in Rome with exactly the same driving history, car, age, profession, and number of years owning a driving license may be charged a different price when purchasing car insurance. Why? Because of their place of birth, according to a recent study.
By Francesco Boscarol for AlgorithmWatch on February 4, 2022
A ProPublica analysis found that traffic cameras in Chicago disproportionately ticket Black and Latino motorists. But city officials plan to stick with them — and other cities may adopt them too.
By Emily Hopkins and Melissa Sanchez for ProPublica on January 11, 2022
Those who could be exploited by AI should be shaping its projects.
By Pratyusha Kalluri for Nature on July 7, 2020
Online ad-targeting practices often reflect and replicate existing disparities, effectively locking out marginalized groups from housing, job, and credit opportunities.
By Linda Morris and Olga Akselrod for American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on January 27, 2022
Ontmoet Reference man: een witte man, zo’n 1.75m lang en ongeveer 80 kilo. En onze wereld is afgestemd, getest en gebouwd op hem. Dat is soms bijna knullig, maar af en toe ook levensbedreigend. In dit vierluik neemt Sophie Frankenmolen de kijker mee in haar onderzoek naar dit bizarre fenomeen.
By Sophie Frankenmolen for NPO Start on January 13, 2022
So long as algorithms are trained on racist historical data and outdated values, there will be no opportunities for change.
By Chris Gilliard for WIRED on January 2, 2022
Bits of Freedom reikt ook elk jaar een Felipe Rodriguez Award uit, deze geven we aan een persoon die een buitengewone bijdrage heeft geleverd aan het beschermen van onze rechten. Vandaag te gast in onze podcast, de winnaar van dit jaar, Nani Jansen Reventlow.
By Inge Wannet and Nani Jansen Reventlow for Big Brother Awards 2021 on January 17, 2022
Refusing to see like a state.
By J. Khadijah Abdurahman and SA Smythe for Logic on December 25, 2022
Hiring sociocultural workers to correct bias overlooks the limitations of these underappreciated fields.
By Elena Maris for WIRED on January 12, 2022
The Decolonising Digital Rights project is a collaborative design process to build a decolonising programme for the European digital rights field. Together, 30 participants are working to envision and build toward a decolonised field. This blog post charts the progress, learnings and challenges of the process so far.
By Laurence Meyer for Digital Freedom Fund on December 27, 2021
De politie vergeleek telefoongegevens van asielzoekers met strafrechtelijke informatie. Dat „rijmde” niet met de privacywet, aldus de politie zelf.
By Martin Kuiper and Romy van der Poel for NRC on December 7, 2021
De Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (AP) legt de Belastingdienst een boete op van 2,75 miljoen euro. Dit doet de AP omdat de Belastingdienst jarenlang de (dubbele) nationaliteit van aanvragers van kinderopvangtoeslag op onrechtmatige, discriminerende en daarmee onbehoorlijke wijze heeft verwerkt. Dit zijn ernstige overtredingen van de privacywet, de Algemene verordening gegevensbescherming (AVG).
From Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens on December 7, 2021
We must curb the power of Silicon Valley and protect those who speak up about the harms of AI.
By Timnit Gebru for The Guardian on December 6, 2021
Timnit Gebru is launching Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR) to document AI’s harms on marginalized groups.
By Nitasha Tiku for Washington Post on December 2, 2021
ADCU has launched legal action against Uber over the unfair dismissal of a driver and a courier after the company’s facial recognition system failed to identify them.
By James Farrar, Paul Jennings and Yaseen Aslam for The App Drivers and Couriers Union on October 6, 2021
Millions of crime predictions left on an unsecured server show PredPol mostly avoided Whiter neighborhoods, targeted Black and Latino neighborhoods.
By Aaron Sankin, Annie Gilbertson, Dhruv Mehrotra and Surya Mattu for The Markup on December 2, 2021
Instead of relying on a ‘technological fix,’ we need to ask what drives students to cheat in the first place.
By Kari Zacharias and Ketra Schmitt for University Affairs on December 3, 2021
When you or I seek out evidence to back up our existing beliefs and ignore the evidence that shows we’re wrong, it’s called “confirmation bias.” It’s a well-understood phenomenon that none of us are immune to, and thoughtful people put a lot of effort into countering it in themselves.
By Cory Doctorow for Pluralistic on December 2, 2021
In het kader van de Big Brother Awards van 2021 legt Naomi Appelman uit hoe predictive policing in Nederland ingezet wordt (voor zover we dat weten) en wat daar de problematische kanten van zijn.
By Inge Wannet, Lotte Houwing and Naomi Appelman for Big Brother Awards 2021 on December 13, 2021
Today, 30 November 2021, European Digital Rights (EDRi) and 114 civil society organisations launched a collective statement to call for an Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA) which foregrounds fundamental rights.
From European Digital Rights (EDRi) on November 30, 2021
Surveillance systems, no matter the intention, will always exist to serve power.
By Chris Gilliard for WIRED on November 14, 2021
Despite Biden’s announced commitment to advancing racial justice, not a single appointee to the task force has focused experience on civil rights and liberties in the development and use of AI. That has to change. Artificial intelligence, invisible but pervasive, affects vast swaths of American society and will affect many more. Biden must ensure that racial equity is prioritized in AI development.
By ReNika Moore for Washington Post on August 9, 2021
Voyager, which pitches its tech to police, has suggested indicators such as Instagram usernames that show Arab pride can signal inclination towards extremism.
By Johana Bhuiyan and Sam Levin for The Guardian on November 17, 2021
Researchers proposed a fix to the biased algorithm, but one internal document predicted pushback from ‘conservative partners’.
By Craig Timberg, Elizabeth Dwoskin and Nitasha Tiku for Washington Post on November 21, 2021
Traces the longstanding relationship between technology and Black feminist thought.
By Catherine Knight Steele for NYU Press on October 1, 2021
Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it plans to remove detailed ad-targeting options that refer to “sensitive” topics, such as ads based on interactions with content around race, health, religious practices, political beliefs or sexual orientation.
By Elizabeth Culliford for Reuters on November 9, 2021
Photographer Ibarionex Perello recalls how school picture day would go back in the 1970s at the Catholic school he attended in South Los Angeles. He recalls that kids would file into the school auditorium in matching uniforms. They’d sit on a stool, the photographer would snap a couple images, and that would be it. But when the pictures came back weeks later, Perello always noticed that the kids with lighter skin tones looked better — or at least more like themselves. Those with darker skin tones looked to be hidden in shadows. That experience stuck with him, but he didn’t realize why this was happening until later in his life.
From 99% Invisible on November 8, 2021
How big data and machine learning encode discrimination and create agitated clusters of comforting rage.
By Wendy Hui Kyong Chun for The MIT Press on November 1, 2021
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