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=== Week 8: The Global Power of Big Tech Companies ===
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=== Week 10: AI and algorithms and privacy ===
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* September 10th 9 - 11 Pacific/12 - 2 Eastern Zoom https://zoom.us/j/9129428892
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* Real time lecture: September 24th 9 - 11 Pacific/12 - 2 Eastern on Zoom https://zoom.us/j/9129428892
  
 
==== Overview ====
 
==== Overview ====
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list of big tech companies eg palantir;
 
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mckinsey data use//covid; tech worker organizing against sexual harassment; privacy as consent, abuse of big tech founders
 
  
 
==== Readings ====
 
==== Readings ====
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https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/05/uks-covid-19-health-data-contracts-with-google-and-palantir-finally-emerge/
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Anatomy of an AI report and visualization of the data, labor, and ecological impacts of one Amazon Echo device from AI Now Institute: https://anatomyof.ai/
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April Glaser readings
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The far-right helped create the world's most powerful facial recognition technology: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-alt-right_n_5e7d028bc5b6cb08a92a5c48
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* https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-politics-radical.html
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Palantir provides Covid-19 tracking software to CDC and NHS, pitches European health agencies: https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/01/palantir-coronavirus-cdc-nhs-gotham-foundry/
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* https://jacobinmag.com/2018/06/google-project-maven-military-tech-workers
 
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* http://www.uncomputing.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/commercial-trolling.feb2014.pdf
 
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* https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59vex5/be-good-for-goodness-sake
 
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How Amazon automatically tracks and fires warehouse workers for ‘productivity’
 
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When the real threat is worker surveillance, not the robot apocalypse
 
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The inequalities of workplace surveillance
 
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Coronavirus is a labor crisis, and a general strike may be next
 
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Workplace monitoring and surveillance (optional long read)
 
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Should you buy an Amazon Ring doorbell? https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/should-you-buy-ring-doorbell-camera
 
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Amazon Ring's police partnerships https://www.mic.com/p/amazon-rings-police-partnerships-the-focus-of-open-letter-from-36-civil-rights-groups-19197774
 
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Amazon's Ring planned neighborhood watchlists based on facial recognition: https://theintercept.com/2019/11/26/amazon-ring-home-security-facial-recognition/
 
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Ring's hidden data let us map Amazon's sprawling home surveillance network: https://gizmodo.com/ring-s-hidden-data-let-us-map-amazons-sprawling-home-su-1840312279
 
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Leaked pics from Amazon Ring show potential new surveillance features https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/04/ring-cameras-may-someday-scan-license-plates-and-faces-leak-shows/
 
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Why Facebook’s Latest Ban of Alex Jones Was So Underwhelming by April Glaser
 
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Another 540 Million Facebook Users Data Has Been Exposed by April Glaser
 
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15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook
 
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Regulators Around the World Are Circling Facebook
 
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YouTube’s Search Results for “Abortion” Show Exactly What Anti-Abortion Activists Want Women to See by April Glaser
 
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Facebook while black: Users call it getting 'Zucked,' say talking about racism is censored as hate speech
 
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Facebook Can't Clean Up Its Data Spill by April Glaser
 
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Alex Jones Gets To Declare The Real Info War Now by April Glaser
 
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It’s Not Enough to Fine Facebook. The Feds Should Fine Mark Zuckerberg. by April Glaser
 
  
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* tech and gentrification
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https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/07/defund-facial-recognition/613771/
  
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* this week talk about physical infra/carbon impact/why this is significant with AI/international impact/GND
 
==== Guest lecturer ====
 
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Rob Larson, author of Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley
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Varoon Mathur, fellow at AI Now Institute
  
 
==== Discussion ====
 
==== Discussion ====
  
 
==== Tasks ====
 
==== Tasks ====

Revision as of 18:53, 25 August 2020

Week 10: AI and algorithms and privacy

Overview

Readings

Anatomy of an AI report and visualization of the data, labor, and ecological impacts of one Amazon Echo device from AI Now Institute: https://anatomyof.ai/ The far-right helped create the world's most powerful facial recognition technology: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-alt-right_n_5e7d028bc5b6cb08a92a5c48 Palantir provides Covid-19 tracking software to CDC and NHS, pitches European health agencies: https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/01/palantir-coronavirus-cdc-nhs-gotham-foundry/

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/07/defund-facial-recognition/613771/

  • this week talk about physical infra/carbon impact/why this is significant with AI/international impact/GND

Guest lecturer

Varoon Mathur, fellow at AI Now Institute

Discussion

Tasks

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