As the second Trump era begins today, on MLK day, it’s a good time to read the civil rights icon’s commentary on tech, inequality, and democracy.
By Brian Merchant for Blood in the Machine on January 20, 2025
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
Hackney group Rise.365 is trying to tackle poor representation and spark discussions about discrimination with new designs.
By Mabel Banfield-Nwachi for The Guardian on October 6, 2024
Car insurers in Michigan are not allowed to use race when setting premiums, but Black drivers are still being penalized.
By Soo Oh for The Markup on July 20, 2024
The Guardian reveals FTX trustees, in charge after the CEO’s downfall, allege payments were made with looted funds.
By Ali Winston and Jason Wilson for The Guardian on June 16, 2024
Across the rural South, about 38% of Black households don’t have home internet, a higher percentage than White people in the same region and the national average.
By Aallyah Wright for The Markup on December 6, 2023
Census categories for race and ethnicity have shaped how the nation sees itself. Here’s how they have changed over the last 230 years.
By Jennifer Medina and K.K. Rebecca Lai for The New York Times on October 16, 2023
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.
Continue reading “On “The Palestine Laboratory””
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
Beyond the moral arguments for inclusion and equity, placemaking can help strengthen local economies, reduce crime, and drive civic engagement.
By Shiva Kooragayala and Tanaya Srini for Urban Institute on August 2, 2016
PokéStops in communities of color suggest unconscious digital redlining within the game.
By Allana Akhtar for USA Today (EU) on August 9, 2016
Scientific research on the quality of face detection systems keeps finding the same result: no matter how, when, and with which system testing is done, every time it is found that faces of people with a darker skin tone are not detected as well as the faces of people with a lighter skin tone.
Continue reading “Current state of research: Face detection still has problems with darker faces”
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
Weaving memory into computer systems and Yoruba divination chains.
By Zainab Aliyu for Logic on June 2, 2023
The answer could be crucial in the FCC’s attempt to combat “digital discrimination”.
By Aaron Sankin for The Markup on April 8, 2023
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.
Continue reading “Dutch Institute for Human Rights: Use of anti-cheating software can be algorithmic discrimination (i.e. racist)”
CR+DS produces cutting edge research that illuminate the ways that race, ethnicity and identity shape and are shaped by digital technologies.
From Center for Critical Race + Digital Studies
The infrastructural legacies of apartheid have made modern South Africa into an especially stark illustration of the New Jim Code.
Continue reading “Apartheid by Algorithm”
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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