Category: General

Racist Technology in Action: The algorithm that was supposed to match asylum seekers to places with jobs doesn’t work and is discriminatory

A dark stylished picture of the Netherlands with a city in the North highlighted with yellow round marker.

For many years and for many people, GeoMatch by the Immigration Policy Lab was a shining example of ‘AI for Good’: instead of using algorithms to find criminals or fraud, why don’t we use it to allocate asylum seekers to regions that give them the most job opportunities? Only the naive can be surprised that this didn’t work out as promised.

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Migrant Community of Practice

Equinox Initiative for Racial Justice, Greek Forum of Migrants and International Women* Space are building a Migrant Justice Community of Practice: a coalition of migrant-led organisations working to shift European migration approaches away from punishment, violence and control toward community, care and social provision.

From Equinox

On “The Palestine Laboratory”

The cover of the book “The Palestine Laboratory” showing an explosion from a rocket near what appears to be a mosque.

A large part of Israel’s economy and global influence are dependent on its military-technology complex that not only fuels the ongoing genocide in Gaza but is also exported to facilitate oppression around the world. In this thorough 2023 book, journalist Anthony Loewenstein makes explicit how Israel’s military industrial complex profits exorbitantly from exporting technologies “battle-tested” on occupied Gaza and the West-Bank.

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Intuit: “Our fraud fights racism”

Today’s key concept is “predatory inclusion”: “a process wherein lenders and financial actors offer needed services to Black households but on exploitative terms that limit or eliminate their long-term benefits”.

By Cory Doctorow for Pluralistic on September 27, 2023

What languages dominate the internet?

Is English language the leading language of the internet? As of right now, English is the leading internet language, with Russian and Spanish following behind.

By Russell Brandom for Rest of World on June 7, 2023

Dutch Institute for Human Rights: Use of anti-cheating software can be algorithmic discrimination (i.e. racist)

Dutch student Robin Pocornie filed a complaint with Dutch Institute for Human Rights. The surveillance software that her university used, had trouble recognising her as human being because of her skin colour. After a hearing, the Institute has now ruled that Robin has presented enough evidence to assume that she was indeed discriminated against. The ball is now in the court of the VU (her university) to prove that the software treated everybody the same.

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The Dutch government wants to continue to spy on activists’ social media

Investigative journalism of the NRC brought to light that the Dutch NCTV (the National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security) uses fake social media accounts to track Dutch activists. The agency also targets activists working in the social justice or anti-discrimination space and tracks their work, sentiments and movements through their social media accounts. This is a clear example of how digital communication allows governments to intensify their surveillance and criminalisation of political opinions outside the mainstream.

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