Sources detail Eric Schmidt's influence over Biden's Office of Science and Technology Policy; Schmidt's charity indirectly paid the salaries of two employees
As President Joe Biden granted his science office unprecedented access and power, one outside adviser to that office has attained … Tweets: @alexthomp , @alexthomp , @alexthomp , @_jack_poulson , and ...
Nonprofit suicide chat service Crisis Text Line ends its data sharing relationship with for-profit spinoff Loris.ai and asks the company to delete existing data
and it's striking to be offered so much inside info about the CTL/Loris debacle — but it also doesn't fully connect the dots. A few thoughts/questions: https://www.zephoria.org/... @thomasfuchs : “My ...
FOI request reveals US Treasury acquired data feeds enabling government use of sensitive data from smartphone apps not subject to due process restrictions
The Treasury Department has in recent months expanded its digital surveillance powers, contracts provided to The Intercept reveal … Tweets: @samfbiddle , @carnage4life , and @_jack_poulson Tweets: Sam...
Google is aggressively pursuing a major cloud computing and AI contract with the Pentagon, three years after employee outcry ended similar work on Project Maven
& we will win again. https://www.nytimes.com/... @alphabetworkers : Our working conditions include our ethical concerns. Workers should have full transparency on the real world impacts of our labor AN...
A former AI research scientist at Google details how tech companies and the US government hide their surveillance projects in plain sight
Learning about the Pentagon's drone program through FOIA requests and public filings — An MQ-9 Sea Guardian unmanned maritime surveillance drone flies … Tweets: @carnage4life , @theprospect , @_jack...
Google says it plans to double the size of its team studying AI ethics in the coming years, as it looks to strengthen the group battered by recent controversies
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Report: most major tech companies in Silicon Valley have kept paying their thousands of unionized blue-collar workers for now, but future remains uncertain
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More than 140 scientists funded by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative urge Mark Zuckerberg to reconsider Facebook's policies on misinformation and incendiary language
@deboramarks The scientists stand up to their sponsor. And the sponsor desperately needs to take action. Now. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... by @nitashatiku https://twitter.com/... Gary Marcus / ...
In a rare public protest at Facebook, hundreds of staff staged a virtual walkout, pushing back on Zuckerberg's choice to let Trump's inflammatory posts stand
Since macOS 10.12 there's … Theodore Schleifer / Vox : Change will be harder for Silicon Valley than just donating money Wall Street Journal : Social Media Becomes Battleground Over Days of Street Pro...
Amazon employees share their views on Amazon's global impact, from climate change to “enabling Palantir and ICE to surveil and separate” families at the border
and in stark defiance of—Amazon's newly updated PR policy discouraging employees from talking about the company's climate policy Here are each of their statements: https://medium.com/... https://twitt...