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News on Surveillance Technology
Just Tech Program Officer Ever Bussey interviews Just Tech Fellow Tawana Petty about how data extraction and surveillance impact marginalized communities, working with policymakers, and how to address the proliferation of artificial intelligence in an inclusive and consentful manner.
The following passage is from Zara Rahman’s new book Machine Readable Me: The Hidden Ways Tech Shapes Our Identities. Rahman is an author and researcher investigating the intersection of power, […]
Zara Rahman is a British-Bangladeshi author and researcher whose interests lie at the intersection of power, technology and justice. Her book, Machine Readable Me: The Hidden Ways Tech Shapes Our […]
Romi Ron Morrison is an interdisciplinary artist, scholar, and educator. Their work investigates the personal, political, ideological, and spatial boundaries of race, gender, and social infrastructure within digital technologies. Using […]
In this interview, Hamid Khan, founder of the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, and Just Tech Editor Rodrigo Ugarte discuss the work of the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition with LA’s minority and marginalized communities, how police surveillance manifests through policy and on the streets, and how communities can be better informed.
Hamid Khan is an organizer with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition. The mission of the Coalition is to build community-based power to dismantle police surveillance, spying, and infiltration programs. The […]
Danielle Blunt is a sex worker, community organizer, public health researcher, and the cofounder of Hacking//Hustling, a collective of sex workers and accomplices working at the intersection of tech and […]
Tawana Petty is a mother, organizer, poet, author, and facilitator. She is a long-time social justice organizer whose work focuses on racial justice, equity issues, water rights advocacy, data privacy, […]
Jay L. Cunningham is an assistant professor of computer science (Human‑Computer Interaction) at DePaul University’s College of Computing and Digital Media (CDM), where he directs the Responsible AI Systems & […]
For the past 21 years, James has worked for a private security company as a plain-clothes officer in high-street stores, mainly on London’s Oxford Street. He’ll often film the people […]
By Daisy SchofieldTwo developers have used OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 image generation model to create a forensic sketch program that can create “hyper-realistic” police sketches of a suspect based on user inputs. The […]
By Chloe Xiang