This article was featured on the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project’s blog. Riders of New York City subways and buses are no stranger to the reality that they are being tracked on public transportation. Last year, the MTA successfully installed security cameras at all 472 subway stations. MetroCard data is routinely…

This article was originally published on LinkedIn. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released its “Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights” yesterday. The blueprint is the product of collaboration and input from AI auditing startups, human rights groups, the general public, and even companies like…

This article was originally published on my LinkedIn newsletter, Tech Support. Have you ever clicked on a link while scrolling through an app on your phone? Most apps won’t open that link on your internet browser of choice. Instead, they will take you to their in-app browser, which is a…

This article was originally published on my LinkedIn newsletter, Tech Support. At the end of 2021, The New York Times published a story about the first wedding in the metaverse, touting it as some novel experience. Articles like this show how a lot of marketing and money have likely gone…

This article was originally published in my LinkedIn newsletter, Tech Support. Cities across the United States are relying more and more on gunshot detection technology — a combination of microphones, audio analytics software, and human analysts — to identify sounds that may (or may not) be gunshots. The audio snippets…

This article was originally published in my LinkedIn newsletter, Tech Support. Algorithms exploit us by using our data. We can use that to our advantage to demand change. As you go about your day, you create data that is systematically collected by tech companies. Every email you send, every order you make online, every video you watch allows tech companies to develop a clearer and more complete…

This article was originally published in my LinkedIn newsletter, Tech Support. Affirmative action as we know it today was first introduced during the Kennedy administration. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy’s Executive Order 10925 created a committee with a vague mandate intended to communicate the administration’s commitment to fairness in…

This article was originally published on Tech Policy Press. The leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion sounded the alarm that the Court will almost certainly overturn its ruling in the 1973 reproductive rights case Roe v. Wade. …

This article was originally published on Tech Policy Press. When Facebook became Meta in October 2021, the rebrand was seen as a distraction from the company’s many scandals: whistleblower revelations, disinformation, and political polarization. While promises of a virtual reality may or may not make us forget about what Facebook…