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Deb Raji

@rajiinio
20 posts
2024-08-25
@themarkup My main issue - which I was glad to see featured prominently in this complaint - is how much they try to automate the rental process end to end (setting rental prices, screening tenants, etc) and *completely* box the humans out of any decision-making.
2024-08-25 View on X
Bloomberg

The US DOJ sues RealPage, alleging its software helps property managers collude to drive up rental prices on millions of units, violating antitrust law

- Prosecutors allege software drives up prices on rental units  — Company says rent software uses anonymous, aggregated data

RealPage is a clear monopoly player in the protech space & has been using algos of all sorts, impacting millions of tenants, unchecked for years. Next, it would be great to see some scrutiny on their role in tenant screening, reported by @themarkup here: https://themarkup.org/...
2024-08-25 View on X
Bloomberg

The US DOJ sues RealPage, alleging its software helps property managers collude to drive up rental prices on millions of units, violating antitrust law

- Prosecutors allege software drives up prices on rental units  — Company says rent software uses anonymous, aggregated data

2024-08-24
RealPage is a clear monopoly player in the protech space & has been using algos of all sorts, impacting millions of tenants, unchecked for years. Next, it would be great to see some scrutiny on their role in tenant screening, reported by @themarkup here: https://themarkup.org/...
2024-08-24 View on X
Bloomberg

The US DOJ sues RealPage, alleging its software helps property managers collude to drive up rental prices on millions of units, violating antitrust law

- Prosecutors allege software drives up prices on rental units  — Company says rent software uses anonymous, aggregated data

@themarkup My main issue - which I was glad to see featured prominently in this complaint - is how much they try to automate the rental process end to end (setting rental prices, screening tenants, etc) and *completely* box the humans out of any decision-making.
2024-08-24 View on X
Bloomberg

The US DOJ sues RealPage, alleging its software helps property managers collude to drive up rental prices on millions of units, violating antitrust law

- Prosecutors allege software drives up prices on rental units  — Company says rent software uses anonymous, aggregated data

2024-05-28
Nice to see the DSA in action—CrowdTangle (a platform transparency tool for Facebook) has been re-enabled through 2024 elections in EU member states. @mozilla & @brandonsilverm led a letter calling for this in March, after FB tried to shut the tool down:https://foundation.mozilla.org/ ...
2024-05-28 View on X
Reuters

Meta adds safety features to CrowdTangle for use during the EU elections, in a bid to address EU concerns over Meta's plan to shut down the tool in August 2024

CrowdTangle (a platform transparency tool for Facebook) has been re-enabled through 2024 elections in EU member states. @mozilla & @brandonsilverm led a letter calling for this in ...

2024-05-12
Wow, - very interesting new performance analysis tool from UK AISI!
2024-05-12 View on X
TechCrunch

The UK government's new AI safety body releases Inspect, an evaluation tool for AI model capabilities, including models' core knowledge and ability to reason

The U.K. Safety Institute, the U.K.'s recently established AI safety body, has released a toolset designed to “strengthen AI safety” …

2023-12-21
Whoa, impressed by this strongly worded letter from science committee leaders to @NIST & @WHOSTP about the due diligence required for us to properly evaluate AI systems in deployment. “Evaluations...cannot be based on speculation or.. unsound research” https://science.house.gov/... [image]
2023-12-21 View on X
Reuters

The US NIST seeks public input by February 2, 2024, for setting guidelines to ensure the safety of generative AI systems, as directed by President Biden's AI EO

2023-12-20
Whoa, impressed by this strongly worded letter from science committee leaders to @NIST & @WHOSTP about the due diligence required for us to properly evaluate AI systems in deployment. “Evaluations...cannot be based on speculation or.. unsound research” https://science.house.gov/... [image]
2023-12-20 View on X
Reuters

The NIST seeks public input by February 2, 2024 for setting guidelines to evaluate the safety of generative AI systems, as directed by President Biden's AI EO

The Biden administration said on Tuesday it was taking the first step toward writing key standards and guidance for the safe deployment …

2021-11-03
To be clear: We as a society should never have to rely on corporate gears miraculously aligning once-in-a-lifetime to do the right thing. Ever. We deserve to be protected by regulation! The thing to celebrate is that this will get policymakers to prioritize & pay attention. https://twitter.com/...
2021-11-03 View on X
New York Times

Meta plans to shut down Facebook's decade-old facial recognition system this month, deleting the face scan data of 1B+ users following legal and regulatory woes

Saying it wants “to find the right balance” with the technology, the social network will delete the face scan data of more than one billion users.

2021-10-11
The thing I admire the most about Ifeoma is that even long after she'd freed herself, she turned back and committed every ounce of energy she had to freeing everyone else too! 💕 Not someone to be messed with! https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-11 View on X
CNBC

Profile of Ifeoma Ozoma as she launches The Tech Worker Handbook, an online guide for tech workplace complaints, and Silenced No More Act becomes California law

- Ifeoma Ozoma, a former employee at Pinterest and Google, just published a resource guide for tech workers who are considering … Tweets: @ashleygjovik , @jenn_elias , @joshbbornst...

2021-10-09
The thing I admire the most about Ifeoma is that even long after she'd freed herself, she turned back and committed every ounce of energy she had to freeing everyone else too! 💕 Not someone to be messed with! https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-09 View on X
The Verge

Gov. Newsom signs Silenced No More Act, which ex-Pinterest employee Ifeoma Ozoma helped draft, to protect CA workers who call out discrimination despite NDAs

if they so wish—when they are a victim of any type of harassment or discrimination in the workplace. #EmpowerSurvivors Release: https://sd20.senate.ca.gov/... https://twitter.com/....

2021-08-14
Horrible - the way Facebook is strategically silencing third-party external auditors should be raising serious red flags for everyone hoping to see these companies being held accountable. https://twitter.com/...
2021-08-14 View on X
The Verge

Researchers at Berlin-based AlgorithmWatch say they abandoned their research project monitoring the Instagram algorithm after legal threats from Facebook

run by @LauraEdelson2 and Damon McCoy—even though the work involves only limited and anonymous information about advertisements. https://knightcolumbia.org/... Deb Raji / @rajiinio...

2021-07-01
ICYMI @USGAO just released a report on federal agency use of facial recognition. “...six (agencies)...using the technology to identify people...during the civil unrest, riots, or protests following death of George Floyd in May 2020” 🤔 h/t @jovialjoy https://www.gao.gov/...
2021-07-01 View on X
BuzzFeed News

Clearview AI data shows GAO's recent report on government use of facial recognition overlooked usage by five agencies, including IRS, TSA, and US Capitol Police

2021-04-14
@nsthorat @timnitGebru @mmitchell_ai Happy to hear this but I think Google definitely underestimated their impact on the research community, for sure - otherwise the dismissals would have been handled with much more caution & care. I can't imagine them treating a researcher they valued with that level of disrespect.
2021-04-14 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Alphabet shareholder Trillium Asset Management pushes Google for better whistleblower protections, referencing the firing of Timnit Gebru and a 2020 NLRB report

Citing recent red flags, Trillium Asset Management files another shareholder proposal urging tech giant to review protections for employees voicing human rights concerns

I said this because I believe it: “It was really easy for them to fire her because they didn't value the work she was doing”. Unfortunately for Google, much of the research community disagrees. Proud to continue standing by @timnitGebru & @mmitchell_ai. https://www.theverge.com/...
2021-04-14 View on X
The Verge

Google's decision to fire two of its top AI ethics researchers has triggered waves of protest from academics, as some say its research can't be trusted any more

James Vincent / The Verge :

I said this because I believe it: “It was really easy for them to fire her because they didn't value the work she was doing”. Unfortunately for Google, much of the research community disagrees. Proud to continue standing by @timnitGebru & @mmitchell_ai. https://www.theverge.com/...
2021-04-14 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Alphabet shareholder Trillium Asset Management pushes Google for better whistleblower protections, referencing the firing of Timnit Gebru and a 2020 NLRB report

Citing recent red flags, Trillium Asset Management files another shareholder proposal urging tech giant to review protections for employees voicing human rights concerns

2021-03-18
Me & @camillefrancois's @mozillafestival discussion of @AJLUnited's CRASH project got a news feature! “If we had a harms discovery process that, like in security, was ...robust, structured & formalized, that would help the community gain credibility” https://www.zdnet.com/...
2021-03-18 View on X
ZDNet

Mozilla's AI ethics advocacy group proposes algorithmic bias detection program modeled on bug bounty programs

2021-02-07
In this article, @_KarenHao summarizes our paper so concisely. Facial recognition is just the latest (& most dangerous) AI application corrupted by an all-consuming data requirement for deep learning, which causes an inevitable loss of privacy & control. https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
2021-02-07 View on X
MIT Technology Review

Study of 130+ facial recognition data sets compiled over 43 years: driven by ML's data needs, researchers gradually abandoned asking for people's consent

The largest ever study of facial-recognition data shows how much the rise of deep learning has fueled a loss of privacy.  —  hide

2021-02-04
Knives don't require the hoarding of my biometric information. Also, knives work. Can't stand this dual use argument when used to justify AI deployments that aren't even functional. Also annoyed with comparisons that ignore the tech's unique, data-specific ethical implications. https://twitter.com/...
2021-02-04 View on X
CNBC

Profile of AWS' CEO and Amazon's next CEO, Andy Jassy, whose success has been built on attracting a variety of customers to AWS, ranging from the CIA to Apple

Knives don't require the hoarding of my biometric information. Also, knives work. Can't stand this dual use argument when used to justify AI deployments that aren't even functional. Also annoyed with comparisons that ignore the tech's unique, data-specific ethical implications. https://twitter.com/...
2021-02-04 View on X
Bloomberg

In an email to staff on February 1, Andy Jassy reaffirmed his commitment to making video games, following a scathing Bloomberg profile of Amazon Game Studios

One day before he was named the next chief executive officer of Amazon.com Inc., Andy Jassy reaffirmed his commitment to making video games …