1. Too often, data brokers track & sell Americans' location data—revealing not just where someone lives, but which doctors they visit and where they worship. FTC has taken action to ban data broker X-Mode/Outlogic from selling sensitive location data. ftc.gov/news-events/ne…

The AI supply chain: "It makes visible the connection between an engineer training an algorithm in the UK, a miner extracting tantalum in Kazakhistan, an engineer in Mexico working in a data centre, a worker in Taiwan manufacturing GPUs and a worker in Kenya dismantling e-waste"

I hope it makes sense to people now that the reason 2023 was one sustained howl of AI hype / bout of handwringing over whether AI could grow too powerful too soon was to pique the interest of potential clients like the Dept of Defense so OpenAI could ink deals like this

It's wild how the most consistent feature of my entire decade-ish on Twitter has periodic waves of media layoffs, the slow chipping away at the livelihood/lives of the people in one of the only industries that actually holds fascism to account or makes it legible to the public

We're hosting an online launch with our incredible contributors, Ruha Benjamin, Marwa Fatafta مروة فطافطة, JCarlos, J. Carlos Lara Gálvez, and Ruth Wilson Gilmore on Feb 15th, 7 PM GMT/2 PM ET, and you don't want to miss out on this one! 🔥 Indebted to these phenomenal thinkers tickettailor.com/events/haymark…

On February 15, as part of the Protecting Human Rights in the Age of AI conference organized by Mila, Catherine Régis will moderate a panel on tools for integrating human rights in AI governance. Register now: bit.ly/protecting-hr-…

📣BREAKING: A new investigation by Access Now, Citizen Lab, and local partners has uncovered the widespread use of Pegasus spyware in #Jordan, targeting journalists, activists, civil society and human rights lawyers. 1/5 accessnow.org/publication/be…

When I talk to people outside the US, they're rarely aware of how bad its gotten. I believe bc state level authoritarianism seems rarely subject to international media coverage. In any event, there's now a proposal to *jail teachers/librarians who possess 'banned books'* !!!

Tech giants are building huge data centers around the world that require a ton of water and energy — and local opposition is growing. I spoke to Sebastián Lehuedé about a group in Chile that fought a Google data center and why tech’s plans must be challenged. disconnect.blog/how-to-stop-a-…

“If we allow this brazen slaughter to continue, even as it is livestreamed into the most private recesses of our personal lives, we are complicit in it. Something in our moral selves will be altered forever.” — Arundhati Roy

Wrote this short piece for about the recent AI Environmental Impacts Act. I argue that AI’s contributions to climate change are its real existential risk Thanks to Justin Hendrix and Prithvi Iyer Tech Policy Press for publishing it! techpolicy.press/measuring-ais-…

🪁 If there was ever a lesson on the simple yet beautifully radical ways of resisting oppressive technologies…

We investigated 220 companies in 50 humanitarian projects, including digital ID & biometrics, connectivity, cybersecurity, AI, and cloud. Bottom line: we need more transparency and human rights safeguards in humanitarian tech! Read the full report ⬇️ accessnow.org/private-tech-h…

New: University of Michigan is selling hours and hours of audio recordings of office hours, study groups, and more to outside third-parties to train AI. Selling for tens of thousands of dollars, not clear if participants gave informed consent 404media.co/university-of-…

The surveillance business model is threatening to become the only business model.

An Alabama court rules that because “a holy God” views “the destructive of His image as an affront to Himself” reproductive healthcare must be sharply limited. Again, I don’t think a lot of people, particularly outside the US, are clocking how quickly things are sliding.

Honored to contribute a few thoughts to this sharp and critical investigation of AI at the border -- a better world is possible, and we can't let technosolutionism make us forget it. themarkup.org/news/2024/03/2…

Me screenshotting everything I’ve ever felt, said, or written

Wish I was a snail so I could hang out with Jeremy :/