Tech giants are finding creative ways to use our data to fight the coronavirus 1984, dystopia, ethic, hopelessness, privacy, surveillance, technology https://www.theverge.com/interface/2020/4/7/21209595/google-mobility-reports-facebook-disease-prevention-maps-tech-privacy-backlash?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_content=facebook&utm_campaign=theverge.socialflow
‘It Felt Like a Black Mirror Episode’ The Inside Account of How Bird Laid off 406 People in Two Minutes via a Zoom Webinar 1984, dystopia, ethic, hopelessness https://dot.la/bird-layoffs-meeting-story-2645612465.html
Iran Launched an App That Claimed to Diagnose Coronavirus. Instead, It Collected Location Data on Millions of People. 1984, dystopia, ethic, fakenews, privacy, surveillance, technology https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/epgkmz/iran-launched-an-app-that-claimed-to-diagnose-coronavirus-instead-it-collected-location-data-on-millions-of-people
Is China’s social credit system as Orwellian as it sounds? 1984, dystopia, ethic, privacy, surveillance https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/02/26/137255/chinas-social-credit-system-isnt-as-orwellian-as-it-sounds/#Echobox=1585589038
Amazon hiring 100K workers to fill order surge during coronavirus outbreak amazon, dystopia, ethic, hopelessness, surveillance https://nypost.com/2020/03/17/amazon-hiring-100k-workers-to-fill-order-surge-during-coronavirus-outbreak/
China’s coronavirus app could have unintended consequences 1984, censorship, Covid, dystopia, ethic, hopelessness, privacy, surveillance https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/02/13/844805/coronavirus-china-app-close-contact-surveillance-covid-19-technology/
self-isolate or get paid? That’s the choice for gig workers in a virus outbreak, and it’s a big problem for the rest of us. 1984, apocalypse, deliveroo, dystopia, ethic, health, hopelessness, monopoly https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/08/uk/coronavirus-gig-economy-gbr-intl/index.html
NSO group fires back at facebook: you lied to the court, claims spyware slinger, and we’ve got the proof 1%, ethic, facebook, fail, know, privacy https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/09/nso_facebook_lied/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
first contact with laurie segall ethic, hope, hopelessness, know, sound https://www.breaker.audio/first-contact-with-laurie-segall
surveillance firm banjo used a secret company and fake apps to scrape social media 1984, app, data, dystopia, ethic, know, privacy https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3bgky/banjo-ai-used-secret-company-and-fake-apps-to-scrape-facebook-twitter