| After 10 Years, Bitcoin Has Changed Everything—and Nothing | 7-Eleven accused of weaponizing ICE raids to shed troublesome franchisees | As police scrutiny tightens, Hong Kongers use Tinder and Pokemon Go to organize protests |
| A look back at the sales training for Radio Shack's Model 100, a groundbreaking early laptop | 'City of surveillance': privacy expert quits Toronto's smart-city project | Banned from Youtube, Chinese propagandists are using Pornhub to publish anti-Hong Kong videos |
| An oral history of USB, the port that changed everything | 'We beat Uber but it never should have been our fight' | Barbed Wire Telephone Lines Brought Isolated Homesteaders Together - Atlas Obscura |
| Data Violence | 'We just play in the carpark': more segregated playgrounds revealed | Chinese Activists Are Using Blockchain to Document #MeToo Stories |
| Tim Berners-Lee's radical new plan to upend the WWW | A crusade to defeat the legacy of highways rammed through poor neighborhoods - The Washington Post | Data Mining Reveals the Way Humans Evaluate Each Other - MIT Technology Review |
| First Evidence That Online Dating Is Changing the Nature of Society | A History of CCTV Surveillance in Britain | Desire paths: the illicit trails that defy the urban planners |
| Former Facebook exec says social media is ripping apart society | A Solution to Extensive Workplace Surveillance | Emotional labor watch: "Closers" flirt on behalf of men who use Tinder |
| Globalisation: the rise and fall of an idea that swept the world | A/B testing rules the web. That could be a serious problem | English is a user-modifiable technology |
| How PowerPoint is killing critical thought | Amazon turns its jobs into games to encourage working faster, pits employees against each other in order to win Amazon branded merch | Fraudsters hijack eBay parcels in a postcode lottery |
| The workplace-surveillance technology boom | The exhausting playbook behind Trump’s battle with Twitter | Amazon sellers use 'collectible' label to dodge price gouging rules |
| Coronavirus is giving us a glimpse of the future of work – and it's a nightmare | We will not allow the weaponization of COVID-19 data | K-pop fans spam Dallas PD 'snitch' app with memes to support protesters |
| Datification and the mourning of COVID 29 victims | Post-COVID-19 Employee Monitoring in the Workplace | The civics hi-jinks of K-POP fans |
| How Slack ruined work | Why are good jobs disappearing if robots are not taking them? | How the next wave of AI is rooted in human culture and history |
| Butlers won't be replaced by robots anytime soon | The Behavioural Surveillance Dilemma: Human Rights, Technology and the New Normal | Queer Muslims Are Carving Out Their Space On TikTok |
| The human cost of a WeChat ban: severing a hundred million ties | In Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago, Bridges Have Become Barricades | Geographical fragmentation of the global network of Twitter communications |
| Futurists forget that we have bodies | Tech-enabled 'terror capitalism' is spreading worldwide. The surveillance regimes must be stopped | People are fed up with broken vaccine appointment tools — so they’re building their own |
| The act of writing a letter changes the way you communicate completely | Cities Turn to Software to Predict When Police Will Go Rogue | Protesters are using facial recognition technology to ID police |
| Is the Pandemic Spurring a Robot Revolution? | Zuckerberg feared Facebook's conservative users, so they received special treatment | Gaming Amazon's flex by hanging phones from trees |
| Remote Work Is Killing the Hidden Trillion-Dollar Office Economy | Don’t let gig economy companies rewrite the law | Financial Times | Save The Sun Newspaper This Christmas |
| Technology Is Stupid: How to choose tech for remote working | Gig Economy Coming for Millions of U.S. Jobs After California’s Uber, Lyft Vote | Players are fixing Microsoft Flight Simulator’s missing monuments with Google Maps |
| Silicon Valley Nationalism | ‘Lazy,’ ‘Money-Oriented,’ ‘Single Mother’: How Union-Busting Firms Compile Dossiers on Employees | |
| AI @ Work: overcoming structural challenges to ensure successful implementation of AI in the workplace | Hitting the books: How China uses AI to influence its 1.4 billion citizens | Teens on Tiktok are making fake conversation videos that people can play if they’re feeling unsafe in an Uber |
| Why Can’t We Let Our Obsession With Calorie Counting Go? | Corporate snitches are using screen monitoring to find and fire slackers | Subvertising |
| Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates | Amazon’s Alexa for Landlords Is a Privacy Nightmare Waiting to Happen | Social media filters are helping people explore their gender identity |
| The Robots are Just Automated Management Tools | Coded bias | The dangerous appeal of
technology-driven futures |
| #CurbTheCount AND Stop Calories being displayed on menus! | The long, complicated history of “people analytics” | Forget dating apps: Here’s how the net’s newest matchmakers help you find love |
| Predicting personality from patterns of behavior collected with smartphones | On Weaponised Design - Our Data Our Selves | How to poison the data that Big Tech uses to surveil you |
| How Twitter is shifting the power balance from companies to their employees | Amazon deletes job listings for analysts to track 'labor organizing threats' following public outcry | Marseille’s battle against the surveillance state |
| Patient Satisfaction and the (Re)Making of Healthcare Service Workers | An Ethics Guide for Tech Gets Rewritten With Workers in Mind | Let’s Make Amazon Into a Dumb Pipe |
| Post-Human Centered Design: Working Responsibly at Scale | The SATS were literally invented by a eugenicist to uphold white supremacy | Protecting Dissent |
| The Discomfort of Death Counts: Mourning through the Distorted Lens of Reported COVID-19 Death Data | How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering | Far right is using Twitter’s new rule against anti-extremism researchers |
| The UN says a new computer simulation tool could boost global development | Workplace Coronavirus Tracing Apps Institute Dystopian Mass Surveillance by Default | Watch a police officer admit to playing Taylor Swift to keep a video off YouTube |
| Online-only platforms are going offline with permanent spaces | The price of certainty: How the politics of pandemic data demand an ethics of care | Amazon stops Flex drivers gaming system by hanging iPhones from trees |
| Africa's Quiet Cashless Payments Revolution | On the Clock and at Home: Post-COVID-19 Employee Monitoring in the Workplace | Woman allegedly made deepfakes to kick rivals off daughter's cheerleading squad |
| Cities Struggle to Boost Ridership With ‘Uber for Transit’ Schemes | Amazon to enforce social distancing in warehouses with AI surveillance software 'Distance Assistant' | Why this teen set up a prize-winning fake cosmetics shop |
| Investigating the Potential for Miscommunication Using Emoji | Is It Okay to Use White Emoji? | Even Peloton is cracking down on QAnon |
| Kudos, leaderboards, QOMs: how fitness app Strava became a religion | The Trump 2020 app is a voter surveillance tool of extraordinary power | This ‘Search Engine Artist’ Tricked Google Into Displaying Her Art |
| Against metrics: how measuring performance by numbers backfires | Your Personal Data Is Political Data | When coffee makers are demanding a ransom, you know IoT is screwed |
| Algorithmic Radicalization — The Making of a New York Times Myth | Whole Foods tracks unionization risk with heat map | The 0.5 selfie trend is a nostalgic protest against perfection |
| The Two Myths of the Internet | The activist dismantling racist police algorithms | Gig workers increasingly targeted by scammers |
| Why time management is ruining our lives | Of course technology perpetuates racism. It was designed that way. | Hacking an ableist world |
| How the Loss of the Landline Is Changing Family Life | This startup is using AI to give workers a “productivity score” | |
| Three and a half degrees of separation | Amazon “Stands in Solidarity” but Sells Racist Tech to Police | |
| Industrial Photography in the Machine Age | A History of Architects Mistaking Design for Politics | |
| The 'Future Book' Is Here, but It's Not What We Expected | Why filming police violence has done nothing to stop it | |
| How did Microsoft's 2009 predictions for the world of 2019 hold up? | Big Tech’s Role in Policing the Protests | |
| Science fiction writers on the future of work | We Will Not Allow the Weaponization of COVID-19 Data | |
| The Seductive Diversion of ‘Solving’ Bias in Artificial Intelligence | The stratification of logistics labor | |
| Judge approves $650 million Facebook privacy settlement over facial recognition feature | Report on how platforms are responding to protect gig workers | |
| The internet is made up revolutionary technologies, but isn't revolutionary | How My Boss Monitors Me While I Work From Home | |
| America’s Elderly Itinerant Workforce with Jessica Bruder | When Content Moderation Hurts | |
| Why Silicon Valley can’t fix itself | Banks shun Zoom: ‘Imagine if my pitch ends up on YouTube’ | |
| Apple’s 2019 Mac Pro will be shaped by workflows | How memes got weaponized: A short history | |
| The end of Windows closes in | Data Feminism Reading Group – Data Feminism | |
| Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain | Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers | |
| How the Index Card Cataloged the World | Data is never a raw, truthful input – and it is never neutral | |
| Interactions 2.0 — Bring the web back to life | How Donald Trump Could Build an Autocracy in the U.S. | |
| Information Underload | Here’s the File Clearview AI Has Been Keeping on Me, and Probably on You Too | |
| Why You Need Emoji | Lies, damned lies, and racist statistics | |
| The web is making the world worse | How the Coronavirus Revealed Authoritarianism’s Fatal Flaw | |
| On email | Algorithmic Profiling of Job Seekers in Austria: How Austerity Politics Are Made Effective | |
| Literature's business model explained, with special reference to the age of the Internet | No Small Matters: Reimagining the Use of Research Evidence From A Racial Justice Perspective | |
| Beauty filters are changing the way young girls see themselves | Toronto wants to kill the smart city | |
| The future of remote work | Inside the fight to reclaim AI from Big Tech’s control | |
| The (possibly dystopian) rise of the automated video interview | Stop talking about AI ethics. It’s time to talk about power | |
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| Denmark's 'techplomacy' efforts should confront inequalities | |
| The Corona cycleways and the new contours of the cycling city | A New Lawsuit Says Instagram Hurts Teenagers by Design | |
| The Fatfinger Economy | Today I learned Amazon has a form so police can get my data without permission or a warrant | |
| A genius Twitter bot is calling out companies that post platitudes for International Women’s Day | Bossware is coming for almost every worker | |
| The myths and reality of modern friendship | How Democracies Spy on Their Citizens | |
| The Technological Future of Love | On Racialized Tech Organizations and Complaint: A Goodbye to Google | |
| So many people don't have internet — and it's not their faul | Un candidat à la présidentielle pour porter l’inclusion et la médiation numérique? | |
| USING POWERPOINT, ARTISTS ASK HOW PERFORMATIVE PRESENTATIONS SHAPE OUR THINKING | Toward a Mindful Digital Welfare State | |
| TikTok's tech driven network effect | A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled a New Breed of Superpredator | |
| 75% of work conversations could be recorded and assessed by 2025 | Eighty years after a segregation wall rose in Detroit, America remains divided. That's not an accident. | |
| AI Reads Human Emotions. Should it? | The Constant Boss | |
| Low-paid workers face pandemic 'double whammy' | AMAZON’S TWITTER ARMY WAS HANDPICKED FOR “GREAT SENSE OF HUMOR” | |
| The Age of Instagram Face | Rhetorical uses of precise numbers and semi-magical round numbers in political discourse about COVID-19 | |
| Why the “homework gap” is key to America’s digital divide | How Workers Really Get Canceled on the Job | |
| The Age of Algorithmic Anxiety | Let’s make sure our personal data works for us – not against us – after the pandemic | |
| Majority of tech staffers say Big Tech wields too much power in new survey | |
| Amazon AI van cameras spark surveillance concerns | |
| Warnings of Growing 'Surveillance Empire' as AI Van Cameras Give Amazon 'Roaming Eyes in Every Neighborhood' | |
| Illinois Will End Cash Bail — and Limit Use of High-Tech Incarceration | |
| UN warns of impact of smart borders on refugees | |
| How hate speech reveals the invisible politics of internet infrastructure | |
| Confidential Amazon memo reveals new software to track unions | |
| On Weaponised Design | |
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| Finding the off switch | |
| Shirking from home? Staff feel the heat as bosses ramp up remote surveillance | |
| Uber Is Getting Sued Over Its Allegedly Racist Ratings System | |
| Hitting the Books: Widespread DNA testing could intensify American racism | |
| The iRobot Deal Would Give Amazon Maps Inside Millions of Homes | |
| Co-Powering an Emergent Horizon | |
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