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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 & […]
Erin McElroy is an assistant professor of American studies at the University of Texas at Austin. McElroy is also the cofounder of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, a counter-mapping and digital […]
The Covid-19 pandemic saw a spike in the adoption of varied surveillance technologies. Here, Erin McElroy examines how real estate developers and landlords used the pandemic to install new forms of surveillance systems, which they call “landlord tech,” to track current tenants and appeal to new, wealthier renters, exacerbating gentrification.
Mar Hicks is a historian of technology, gender, and labor, specializing in the history of computing. Hicks’s book, Programmed Inequality, investigates how Britain lost its early lead in computing by […]
Mali Collins’ research areas include Black motherhood studies, Black archival studies, twentieth and twenty-first century literature and art, medical humanities, digital technology, and reproductive health and justice. She is a […]
In this interview, Just Tech Program Director Catalina Vallejo and Program Associate Eliana Blam talk with Sarah Aoun, a security and privacy researcher whose work focuses on tech, human rights, and transformative justice, about how activists and community advocates should be mindful of digital security and how lax cybersecurity can endanger them and their work.
All Tech Is Human’s Spring into Responsible Tech Reading List is a curated list of 20 books that are helping to educate, inform, and inspire the growing Responsible Tech Movement. […]
By All Tech Is HumanThe evening the Derek Chauvin verdict was announced on April 19, 2021, a young, multiracial group of anti-gentrification protestors marched down Vanderbilt Avenue in brownstone Brooklyn. The surrounding neighborhood, like […]
In this interview, Lydia X. Z. Brown, policy counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology, explains how technology can be used to oppress people with disabilities and how the disability community is advocating for a better digital environment.