Author: jon
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JEDII Tech Links – January 8
Back to links on diverse topics today … including a video! My Data Rights by Chenai Chair on My Data Rights (mydatarights.africa) A feminist review of AI, privacy and data protection to enhance digital rights. Are we all equal in the eyes of AI? What are the opportunities and challenges for marginalised groups…
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Social networks, disinformation, and the white supremacist mob
Image description: a multi-colored meter, with the needle pointing to the orange area “attempted coup”, labled Coup-o-meter. Screenshot from Is this a coup? What happened yesterday in DC and statehouses around the country is certainly part of an attempted coup, but it’s just one event so needs its own name … a lot of people…
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JEDII Tech Links – January 6
Quite a crop of links today! Envisioning a Decolonised Digital Rights Field – and Charting Next Steps By Nani Jansen Reventlow and Claire Fernandez on Digital Freedom Fund (digitalfreedomfund.org) If together we had built a digital rights field in which all groups in society have their voices heard and which works to protect the digital…
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Privacy Roundup – JEDII Tech Links for January 5
Image from ENISA. Description: a keyboard, including a big blue key with the word Privacy and an image of a lock. With the People’s Privacy Act about to be introduced in Washington state, I’ll be focusing even more than usual on privacy for the next few months. Here’s a handful of recent…
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Tech Worker Organizing: the new Alphabet Workers Union
Getting the new year off to a fast start, workers at Google today announced the Alphabet Workers Union. From their page on Why we organized: We recognized that our power as Alphabet workers—full-time employees, temporary employees, vendors, and contractors—comes from our solidarity with one another…. To fight the systems of oppression that persist to this…
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Colophon
JEDII Tech is hosted using Ghost, an open source publishing platform. I chose Ghost because I’ve used WordPress for years and want to try something different (and I’d really prefer to avoid the white male-dominated, YCombinator-funded Substack world). JEDII Tech is currently self-hosted (on a $5/month Digital Ocean droplet) so that I can…
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Starting 2021 with the Oracle for Transfeminist Technologies
What if the technologies we cherish were developed to crash, instead of maintain, the matrix of domination of capitalism, hetero-patriarchy, white supremacy, and colonisation? — Joana Varon,
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Welcome to JEDII Tech
After blogging at achangeiscoming.net and Medium for the last couple of years, I’m ready for a change. One of my goals for 2021 is to start experimenting with a newsletter. Substack’s popular, but … well let’s just say that it’s not all that congruent with the brand I’m trying to create. Instead, I’m going…
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Significant progress, although still a ways to go: privacy and facial recognition legislation advances in Washington State
After a dramatic debate on the floor, the Washington House voted to send improved versions of two key bills back to the Senate. Now, the lobbying will get even more intense, as the tech industry and law enfocement try to convince legislators to return to the really bad versions of the bills the Senate passed…
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DRAFT: Title needed, something involving Warren, privacy, and Washington
Draft! Feedback welcome! Please do not forward! Washington votes on March 10, along with six other states. Meanwhile, the Washington State Legislature is on the verge of passing a pair of bills, literally written by an Amazon lobbyist and a Microsoft employee, that sell out our privacy and our rights to exploitative tech companies. It’s…
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DRAFT: The golden age of corruption: bad privacy and facial recognition legislation advances in Washington State
Draft! Feedback welcome! Please do not forward! This may be split into multiple posts before publishing. We’re living in the golden age of income inequality … and we’re also living in the golden age of corruption. These two forces are very scary together. As legislators, what are you doing to protect Washington residents from…
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DRAFT: A short reading list on Facial Recognition
Here’s some links, mostly short articles by AI researchers and lawyers, that I’ve found very helpful in thinking about facial recognition. I’ve included excerpts, but if you’ve got the time it’s really worth reading the full article. A couple of them are paywalled so I’ve included PDFs as well. At the end, I’ve also included…
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DRAFT: A bad day for a bad privacy bill, a good day for privacy
SB 6281 did not fare well in the Washington House ITED Committee hearing
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DRAFT: A bad day for a bad bill (early very long draft)
DRAFT! Please do not forward! The initial section has been revised and turned into a separate, much shorter, post. I’m leaving this here for people who want to see the fuller report. State lawmakers in Washington want the state to be the gold standard for regulating companies and governments that collect people’s digital data or…
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DRAFT: Countering digital voter suppression in 2020
DRAFT! FEEDBACK WELCOME! Please do not forward yet! Shireen Mitchell, discussing disinformation, at CUNY. See the 15-minute video here, via Kim Crayton. We have to face the fact that disinformation and suppression is now a permanent part of a single continuum of actions that becomes digital voter suppression. — Shireen Mitchell, Report On Ongoing Threat…