the gig economy is quietly undermining a century of worker protections ethic, gafam, hopelessness https://qz.com/1556194/the-gig-economy-is-quietly-undermining-a-century-of-worker-protections/
machine mind hack: the new threat that could scupper the AI revolution ai, dystopia, ethic, technology https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24232270-200-machine-mind-hack-the-new-threat-that-could-scupper-the-ai-revolution/?utm_medium=SOC&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1556282866
runaway saudi sisters call on google and apple to pull ‘inhuman’ woman-monitoring app 1984, app, dystopia, ethic, google https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/25/runaway-saudi-sisters-call-for-inhuman-woman-monitoring-app-absher-to-be-pulled-google-apple?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1556188024
alexa is spying…again amazon, data, ethic, privacy, spy, surveillance https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2019-04-24/alexa-is-spying-again-video
amazon’s system for tracking its warehouse workers can automatically fire them 1984, amazon, dystopia, ethic, hopelessness, surveillance, technology https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613434/amazons-system-for-tracking-its-warehouse-workers-can-automatically-fire-them/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=tr_social&utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement
how retailers like guess are personalizing the shopping experience in real time with contextual targeting 1984, advertising, dystopia, ethic, hopelessness, human guinea pig, privacy https://www.psfk.com/2019/04/data-debrief-contextual-targeting.html
teen sues apple for $1 billion over apple stores’ facial recognition apple, ethic, genius, privacy Teen sues Apple for $1 billion over Apple stores’ facial recognition
tech giants oppose bill to outlaw unauthorised IoT device recordings ethic, hope, privacy, Protect https://www.itpro.co.uk/policy-legislation/33453/tech-giants-oppose-bill-to-outlaw-unauthorised-iot-device-recordings
an ai startup has found a new source of cheap labor for training algorithms: prisoners 1984, ai, dystopia, ethic, hopelessness, human guinea pig https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613246/an-ai-startup-has-found-a-new-source-of-cheap-labor-for-training-algorithms/