Dave Gershgorn
senior writer for @medium's OneZero, focused on artificial intelligence. no pitches, please.
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MIT apologizes, permanently pulls offline huge dataset that taught AI systems to use racist, misogynistic slurs
Top uni takes action after El Reg highlights concerns by academics
The 50 Best Black Twitter Accounts Under 50K Followers
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Zoom misses its own deadline to publish its first transparency report – TechCrunch
The company said it would publish a transparency report after Chinese authorities demanded it take action against U.S.-based Zoom users.
The Amazon Effect Is Making Customer Service Reps’ Lives Hell
The pandemic has exposed a major rift in the retail industry
In the 'Blackest city in America,' a fight to end facial recognition
Activists say facial recognition and its racial bias have no place in Detroit, a city that boasts the highest percentage of Black residents in the US.
Dave Gershgorn
"My argument is that I live in Detroit too, and I want to feel safe too."
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Tech companies want facial recognition laws, but maybe not this one
Lawmakers introduced legislation that would put an indefinite ban on facial recognition for police use. Not everyone's a fan.
Objective Algorithms Are a Myth
Shalini Kantayya on her new documentary ‘Coded Bias,’ and the importance of breaking open the black box of algorithm design
Twitter A.I. guru who worked for Magic Pony is set to join Cambridge University
Artificial intelligence expert Ferenc Huszár is set to leave his full-time role at Twitter and join the University of Cambridge.
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Selling surveillance tech in the face of a civil rights movement
Henri Seydoux, the founder of the French drone company Parrot, explains why he's comfortable selling to law enforcement after the George Floyd protests.
Dahua Buenos Aires Bus Screening Violates IEC Standards and Dahua's Own Instructions
Dahua promoted this as "solutions that facilitate community safety" but it risks wasting public funds and creating a false sense of safety.
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In Buenos Aires, some of the buses are getting temperature sensors and mask detectors.
But they aren't installed correctly, so they probably don't work! Very cool.
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Our Ability to Process Information Is Reaching a Critical Limit
The result feels like a mental DDoS attack
Special Report: Thousands of U.S. judges who broke laws, oaths remained on the bench
Judge Les Hayes once sentenced a single mother to 496 days behind bars for failing to pay traffic tickets. The sentence was so stiff it exceeded the jail time Alabama allows for negligent homicide.
Police Used Smart Streetlight Footage to Investigate Protesters - Voice of San Diego
After a series of protests calling for police reform, the San Diego Police Department accessed the city’s network of streetlight cameras at least 35 times in search of evidence for criminal cases against protesters who police believed vandalized...
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San Diego police accessed security camera footage at least 35 times to get footage of protesters.
while the state of its own facial rec is unclear, the SD sheriff's dept uses Dataworks Plus, the same facial rec provider in Detroit and other major cities
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Thousands of U.S. judges who broke laws or oaths remained on the bench
In the past dozen years, judges have repeatedly escaped public accountability for misdeeds that have victimized thousands. Nine of 10 kept their jobs, Reuters found
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if you want to feel a deep despair about the state of the U.S. judicial system, Reuters has a read for you this morning
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The "Stop Hate For Profit" Movement Isn't Going to Stop Anything
Yesterday, Verizon became the latest company to join a corporate chorus boycotting Facebook advertisements in July as part of a rallying cry to get Facebook’s corporate board to take action on the rampant racism and hate speech that many of us have...
Facebook will change its News Feed algorithm to prioritize news stories with original reporting and demote ones that are not transparent about their authors
By Sara Fischer / Axios. View the full context on Mediagazer.
Exclusive: Facebook to boost news articles with original reporting in algorithm
Facebook will be updating the way news stories are ranked in its News Feed.