In episode 75, we're talking data privacy, surveillance, sophisticated bots, racially biased tech and misinformation on social media in the time of COVID, BLM and the upcoming election. We check in with researchers, privacy advocates and an artist/activist, who talk about how our data is valuable to corporations or governments that want to exploit their knowledge of us for policing, political or capitalistic reasons.
David Carroll is an Associate Professor of Media Design at . He took on Cambridge Analytica to get his data back and is featured in the Netflix documentary The Great Hack. He says U.S. citizens still have to fight for the right to manage their own data, though this isn't the case in other countries, and that鈥檚 especially dangerous during protests, COVID-19 and in an election year.
Mutale Nkonde is CEO of and a fellow at Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University, and the at Stanford University. She tells us facial recognition technology is trained to read White faces, and when it's used by law enforcement, it can misread Black faces, which could mean false accusations and arrests.
Professor Kathleen Carley from Carnegie Mellon鈥檚 has been studying sophisticated bots and found many more of them in the time of COVID-19鈥�.
Albuquerque artist and activist compares sharing videos of police violence on social media to the lynching postcards shared among racists in the Jim Crow South 100 years ago. Letcher says the double-edged sword of social media is that it's also the best forum for uniting people.
And a news update:
The United States is seeing a rise in coronavirus infections this week, experts are warning, and six states鈥攊ncluding our neighbors Arizona and Texas鈥攁re seeing more patients filling hospital beds, .
In New Mexico, the special legislative session begins next week, and as things stand, the public and lobbyists won鈥檛 be able to be there in person. A bipartisan group of 22 legislators filed a petition yesterday to make the session open to the public, citing the state鈥檚 constitution, the reports.
Officials announced 162 new cases in the state, according to the , bringing the total to 9,526. That includes 13 more cases at the Otero County prison, which has 275 known cases today. There are six more deaths reported. The death toll stands at 426.
The police union in Albuquerque says the calls to defund police are infuriating, , and that reform means additional training, which would require more money.
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