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AI Companies Want to Colonize Our Data. Here’s How We Stop Them.
Artificial Intelligence companies are imposing a new “Doctrine of Discovery” on our digital commons, but we can resist.
Chicago Organizers Defeat Police Tech in Ongoing Fight for Community Safety
“We're going to continue to organize,” says Stop ShotSpotter organizer Navi Heer.
Will Chicago’s Mayor Cancel Inaccurate Gunshot Detection System Contract?
In 2021, a ShotSpotter alert resulted in the death of 13-year-old Adam Toledo, who was shot by a police officer.
Police Tech Isn’t Designed to Be Accurate — It’s Made to Exert Social Control
Policing technologies are inaccurate by design.
Dysfunctional Migration App Is Making Migrants to US Vulnerable to Kidnapping
Traffickers and scammers are using confusion caused by the CBP One app to take advantage of migrants desperate for help.
To Fight Big Tech, We Must Seize the Means of Computation
“[Elon] Musk is kind of an unsubtle example of the problem with Tech Bros,” says Cory Doctorow.
Rocket-Launching Billionaires Promise a New Pie in the Sky
Musk and Bezos are peddling new age-y religious drama of disaster and salvation, says author Mary-Jane Rubenstein.
Gaming Industry Lobbyists Jockey for Position Over Microsoft Merger
The $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard would be the largest merger in the industry's history.
AI Won’t Overthrow Us, But It Will Optimize the Capitalist Death Machine
“The real threat of these systems is what it will mean for our power,” says Paris Marx.
Surveillance Technologies Don’t Create Safety. They Intensify State Violence.
Surveillance technologies create a dragnet to monitor nearly everyone and collect data on all of our behaviors.