|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Starting this summer, you’ll need to provide a video of your face to access the agency’s website. It’s a major expansion of the use of facial recognition software by the government.
|| Health and Medical Applications Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
An argument against human gene editing technology being used to edit out disabilities.
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
David Heinemeier Hansson, a Danish entrepreneur and developer, said in tweets last week that his wife, Jamie Hansson, was denied a credit line increase for the Apple Card, despite having a higher credit score than him.
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
OMPAS, is used nationwide to decide whether defendants awaiting trial are too dangerous to be released on bail. In May, the investigative news organization ProPublica claimed that COMPAS is biased against black defendants.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
The technologies Facebook uses to put advertising it deems relevant in front of people may be more responsible for the polarization of American politics than previously understood, a team of researchers has concluded.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
AI systems are being used to detect whether people are standing less than 6 feet apart during the COVID-19 pandemic, but concerns are being raised around whether temperature tracking is. or could become a serious privacy concern.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A list of some (but not all) of the data points Facebook uses to target ads for users, which begs to question of if the tracking and bundling of information that Facebook does is really benevolent or not.