{"id":3756,"date":"2021-02-27T19:54:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T19:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2021\/02\/27\/newsletter-february-27\/"},"modified":"2021-02-27T19:54:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T19:54:46","slug":"newsletter-february-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2021\/02\/27\/newsletter-february-27\/","title":{"rendered":"JEDII Tech News: February 27"},"content":{"rendered":"

A roundup of links from around the web …<\/em><\/p>\n

How One State Managed to Actually Write Rules on Facial Recognition<\/a><\/h4>\n

By Kashmir Hill on NYTimes (nytimes.com)<\/p>\n

Massachusetts is one of the first states to put legislative guardrails around the use of facial recognition technology in criminal investigations.<\/p>\n

India Targets Climate Activists With the Help of Big Tech<\/a><\/h4>\n

By Naomi Klein on The Intercept (theintercept.com)<\/p>\n

Tech giants like Google and Facebook appear to be aiding and abetting a vicious government campaign against Indian climate activists.<\/p>\n

How safe is Clubhouse?<\/a><\/h4>\n

By Kate O\u2019Flaherty on WIRED UK (wired.co.uk)<\/p>\n

Despite its boom in popularity, the Clubhouse app has been found lacking in some basic privacy and security protections<\/p>\n

How Anduril and other startups are building military ready, self-piloted drones, away from Silicon Valley, where such projects have become politically untenable<\/a><\/h4>\n

on Techmeme (techmeme.com)<\/p>\n

By Cade Metz \/ New York Times. View the full context on Techmeme.<\/p>\n

Our First Year: Auditing Algorithms<\/a><\/h4>\n

on Revue (getrevue.co)<\/p>\n

Dispatches from Editor-in-Chief Julia Angwin<\/p>\n

These 7 Black Women Are the Unsung Heroes of the COVID Pandemic<\/a><\/h4>\n

By Patrice Peck on Health.com (health.com)<\/p>\n

In the health care and medical spaces critical to curbing COVID-19, seven Black women are playing both offense and defense against a crisis\u2014stabilizing the same ground on which they blaze new trails.<\/p>\n

Bias, disrespect, and demotions: Black employees say Amazon has a race problem<\/a><\/h4>\n

By Jason Del Rey on Vox (vox.com)<\/p>\n

Interviews with diversity managers and internal data obtained by Recode find that Black Amazon employees are promoted less frequently and are rated more harshly than non-Black peers.<\/p>\n

The Dolly Moment<\/a><\/h4>\n

By Tressie McMillan Cottom on essaying (tressie.substack.com)<\/p>\n

Why We Stan A Post-Racism Queen. A new essay on my new project, essaying. Live now. If you are an OG tressiemc.com subscriber – you got this delivered to your inbox along with a free Substack subscription as a thank you.<\/p>\n

AI Ethics Non-Profit Ecosystem: Where are the Black Folks?<\/a><\/h4>\n

By Mia Dand on Medium (miad.medium.com)<\/p>\n

When Ian Moura and I first started compiling a list of non-profits in the space of AI Ethics, our intent was to map the ecosystem to\u2026<\/p>\n

Introducing #NoMoreDataWeapons<\/a><\/h4>\n

By Jamelle Watson-Daniels on Data for Black Lives Blog (blog.d4bl.org)<\/p>\n

Data for Black Lives is launching #NoMoreDataWeapons. No more investing in Data Weapons, No more building new Data Weapons, No more disguising Data Weapons as legitimate and neutral.<\/p>\n

Virginia\u2019s Weak Privacy Bill Is Just What Big Tech Wants<\/a><\/h4>\n

By Hayley Tsukayama on Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org)<\/p>\n

Virginia\u2019s legislature has passed a bill meant to protect consumer privacy\u2014but the bill, called the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, really protects the interests of business far more than the interests of everyday consumers.Take ActionVirginia: Speak Up for Real PrivacyThe bill, which both…<\/p>\n

Zoom Pledges Provide Closed Captioning For All Free Users \u2014 A Win For Hearing Health Advocates<\/a><\/h4>\n

By Peter O\u2019Dowd and and Jeannette Jones on WBUR (wbur.org)<\/p>\n

Hearing health advocate Shari Eberts talks about her fight to make the service accessible to all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A roundup of links from around the web … How One State Managed to Actually Write Rules on Facial Recognition By Kashmir Hill on NYTimes (nytimes.com) Massachusetts is one of the first states to put legislative guardrails around the use of facial recognition technology in criminal investigations. India Targets Climate Activists With the Help of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}