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Mali Collins discusses her research into the intersection of digital surveillance and reproductive rights, in particular in the context of Black birthing people. Looking at the potential criminalization of online searches, she argues for including safe internet search practices in community health instruction.
Daly Barnett is a technologist, educator, writer, and activist. She alchemizes each of these skills to disempower the harms that surveillance and technology can cause movement based work, especially around […]
As abortion bans across the nation are implemented and enforced, law enforcement is turning to social-media platforms to build cases to prosecute women seeking abortions or abortion-inducing medication — and […]
By Katherine Tangalakis-LippertThere are an estimated 38 million disabled eligible voters in the U.S., but many of them face unique obstacles when trying to cast their ballots. Federal and state laws require […]
By Kimberly Adams, Daniel ShinIn this talk, Lindsey D. Felt will introduce a framework that locates disability innovation, artistry, and crip politics as central to the development of AI and technology. From M Eifler’s Prosthetic […]
Can AI be a Force for Global Public Health? From the Covid-19 pandemic to more recent outbreaks of Monkeypox and Poliovirus, wastewater surveillance technologies and their data have demonstrated the […]
Reproductive rights activists in Latin America have long fought for reproductive freedom, including some significant battles won. With the recent repeal of Roe v. Wade in the US, the “green […]
It starts with a tick box on a form. To assess the potential risk to vulnerable people, my university ethics committee asks whether a research project involves “people with a […]
By Georgia van ToornLicensed healthcare professionals on YouTube can now apply to get panels added to their videos that mark them as reliable health information sources, the company said Thursday. They’ll also be […]
By Nicole WetsmanIn 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.
Physicians and medical experts are starting to incorporate algorithms and machine learning in many parts of the health care system, including experimental models to analyze images from X-rays and brain […]
By Kimberly Adams, Daniel Shin