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
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
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
The Impact of the Gig Economy dystopia, gigeconomy, hopelessness, human guinea pig https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/articles/the-impact-of-the-gig-economy/?utm_medium=tr_social&utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1585287856
‘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
Palantir in Talks With Germany, France for Virus-Fighting Tool 1984, hopelessness, surveillance, technology https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-01/palantir-in-talks-with-germany-france-for-virus-fighting-tool