“Only 20 percent of the members of Congress are racial minorities. But 39 percent of the members of Congress who were mistaken for criminals were racial minorities.”
Read more: https://reason.com/blog/2018/07/26/amazon-facial-recognition-confuses-membe
“Though 23andMe gets the consent of its customers to use their genetic data, it’s unlikely that most people are aware of this.”
Read more: https://www.livescience.com/63173-23andme-partnership-glaxosmithkline.html
“It’s not a stretch to say that it’s one of the most important lawsuits to ever cross the desk of a federal judge. The core of the Bill of Rights is in play, and a wrong result could formalize a slide into authoritarianism that began long ago, but accelerated after 9/11.”
Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/how-to-survive-americas-kill-list-699334/
“For fans of the 2002 Tom Cruise film ‘Minority Report,’ this will sound like life catching up with art.”
“A future full of always-listening devices will have its own complications, of course.”
“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.”
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/why-tech-worker-dissent-is-going-viral/
“Seven years after its secretive launch, X is starting to spawn mind-blowing companies—and show us what an ever expanding Google means for the world.”
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/alphabet-google-x-innovation-loon-wing-graduation/
“America’s founding document might be too politically incorrect for Facebook, which flagged and removed a post consisting almost entirely of text from the Declaration of Independence.”
Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2018/07/03/facebook-algorithm-flags-removes-declara
“Silicon Valley relies on the SPLC to police ‘hate speech’.”
“AWS already has a sprawling Pentagon business, and it is the odds-on favorite for a new contract that could be worth $10 billion.”
