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• 5 min
• Wired
• 2019

Axon’s novel use of an ethics committee led to a decision to not use facial recognition programs on the body cameras which they provide to police department, on the basis of latent racial bias and privacy concerns. While this is a beneficial step, companies and government offices at multiple levels debate over when and how facial recognition should be deployed and limited.

• Civil Surveillance
• Algorithmic Bias
• Computer Vision

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• 5 min
• Time Magazine
• 2017

Chicago police enact an algorithm to calculate a “risk score” for individuals based on factors such as criminal history and age with the aim of assessing and pre-emptively striking against risk. However, these numbers are inherently linked to human bias both in input and outcome, and could lead to unfair targeted of citizens, even as it supposedly introduces objectivity to the system.

• Predictive Policing
• Algorithmic Bias
• Machine Learning

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• 10 min
• The Washington Post
• 2019

Law enforcement officials at Federal and state levels, notably the FBI and ICE, use state driver’s license photo databases as a repository for facial recognition software. Such capabilities allow DMVs to help law enforcement in finding those suspected of a crime, undocumented immigrants, or even witnesses. Ultimately, states allow this to happen with certain stipulations, feeding into a concerning system of facial recognition and breach of trust. There is not a solid established system for citizen consent to such monitoring.

• Data Privacy
• Civil Surveillance
• Computer Vision
• Biometrics

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• 7 min
• Vice
• 2019

Programmer creates an application that uses neural networks to remove clothing from the images of women. Deepfake technology being used against women systematically, despite continued narrative that its use in the political realm is the most pressing issue.

• Deep Fake
• Gender Bias
• Machine Learning
• Object Recognition

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• 7 min
• New York Times
• 2018

Youtube’s algorithm suggests increasingly radical recommendations to its users, maximising the amount of time they spend on the platform. The tendency toward inflammatory recommendations often leads to political misinformation.

• Digital Media Misinformation
• Polarization
• Recommender Systems
• Social Networks

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• 11 min
• Kinolab
• 1993

Geordie uses a brain-computer interface, which projects his consciousness into a mobile avatar controlled by his neural impulses, to explore distant ships. This humanoid avatar is able to perform tasks that go beyond human capabilities, such as shooting phaser beams from the hands. However, upon discovering the dead crew of the Raman, it is revealed that the lines separating his virtual reality and true reality are blurred.

• Assistive Technologies
• Edited Humans
• Brain-Computer Interfaces
• Mixed Reality