Letter from Shenzhen
"Chinese tech isn’t an imitation of its American counterpart. It’s a completely different universe."
Why Tech Employees Are Rebelling Against Their Bosses
"The disputed projects span a range, from building facial-recognition technology that could be deployed on unsuspecting people in public to providing computer services that a few years ago would have been run on a machine inside the Pentagon."
Cop Tases Drug Suspect in the Back For Not Crossing His Ankles Quickly Enough
"'Oh come on, bruh. You're really going to tase him? He was sitting down,' shouts the bystander who captured the incident on camera. 'That's crazy. That's why I record everything.'"
Homeland Security mass US citizen face-scanning program rolled out in Orlando
"The face scan expansion is costing the Orlando airport authority $4 million. The program should be rolled out at other airports in other U.S. cities in the next year."
Google’s ‘principles’ on AI weapons, mass surveillence, and signing out
"At some point the wolf cannot say 'I won’t eat you' to sheep any longer with a straight face, because everybody knows for a fact that it eats sheep daily."
SPLC “field guide” errors prompt lawsuits against tech companies it partners with
"Silicon Valley relies on the SPLC to police 'hate speech'."
Be on the Lookout: Amazon Turns its Gaze to Surveillance
"AWS already has a sprawling Pentagon business, and it is the odds-on favorite for a new contract that could be worth $10 billion."
N.S.A. Says It’s Purging Millions of Illegally Gathered Call and Text Records
"The agency had collected the data from a system it created under the USA Freedom Act. Congress enacted that law in 2015 to end and replace a once-secret program that had systematically collected Americans’ domestic calling records in bulk."
How Silicon Valley workers are revolting against ICE overreach
"The growing recognition among white-collar workers that their labor is a precondition to the carrying out of unjust policies — and that if they withhold that labor, they can help bring these policies to a halt — is critical."
Microsoft Removes Glowing Mention of ICE Contract After Protests
"Microsoft Corp. scrubbed an online reference to its work for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as the agency faces criticism for its role in separating families at the U.S.-Mexican border."