Harrisburg University develops facial recognition software to ID criminals, no racial bias 1984, ai, dystopia, ethic, hopelessness, privacy, surveillance, technology https://local21news.com/news/local/harrisburg-university-develops-facial-recognition-software-to-id-criminals-no-racial-bias
Amazon, Whole Foods, Instacart Workers Organize a Historic Mass Strike amazon, ethic, gigeconomy, hope, hopelessness, revenge https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7j8zw/amazon-whole-foods-instacart-workers-organize-a-historic-mass-strike?utm_content=1588257463&utm_medium=social&utm_source=motherboard_twitter
Hancock grants GCHQ powers over NHS IT systems data, ethic, health, medical, monopoly, technology https://www.hsj.co.uk/technology-and-innovation/hancock-grants-gchq-powers-over-nhs-it-systems/7027528.article
Private sector races to build virus apps to track employees 1984, app, data, dystopia, ethic, human guinea pig, privacy, surveillance https://www.ft.com/content/caeb250b-8d8b-4eaa-969c-62a8b58464aa
Would You Sacrifice Your Privacy to Get Out of Quarantine? 1984, Covid, ethic, hopelessness, privacy, psychology, surveillance, technology https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/04/coronavirus-pandemic-privacy-civil-liberties-911/609172/
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos grows fortune by $24bn amid coronavirus pandemic amazon, apocalypse, ethic, fail, hopelessness, monopoly https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/15/amazon-jeff-bezos-gains-24bn-coronavirus-pandemic?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1586969093
Amazon is tracking warehouse workers and says it could fire them for violating social distancing rules amazon, Covid, dystopia, ethic, fail, hopelessness, surveillance https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/06/amazon-says-workers-could-be-fired-for-violating-social-distancing-rules.html
“The long tail of contact tracing” Covid, ethic, human guinea pig, surveillance, technology https://github.com/DP-3T/documents/issues/118
Thousands of Android apps contain undocumented backdoors, study finds android, app, ethic, fail, piracy, privacy, surveillance Thousands of Android apps contain undocumented backdoors, study finds