Surveillance capitalism turns a profit by making people more comfortable with discrimination.
By Chris Gilliard for Real Life on October 15, 2018
Friction-Free Racism
Why Can’t This Soap Dispenser Identify Dark Skin?
On Wednesday, a Facebook employee in Nigeria shared footage of a minor inconvenience that he says speaks to tech’s larger diversity problem. In the video, a white man and a dark-skinned black man both try to get soap from a soap dispenser. The soap dispenses for the white man, but not the darker skinned man. After a bit of laughter, a person can be overheard chucking, “too black!”
By Sidney Fussell for Gizmodo on August 17, 2017
HP computers are racist
The face tracking feature of the HP web cam will not recognize or track black faces.
From YouTube on December 10, 2009