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‘Safe City Malta’: Is Privacy the Real Crux of the Matter?

January 16, 2019 · Francois Zammit ·

Apart from privacy, the Safe City Malta project raises a number of issues that must be addressed by the Maltese authorities: Who will be storing the data? What will be done with the data? Who will be monitoring the data?

Tagged With: AI, algorithms, facial recognition, mass surveillance, technology

Earn Money Online: the Politics of Microwork and Machines

August 7, 2018 · Lorenzo Marsili & Antonio Casilli ·

Understanding how the world of work is changing, and in whose interest, is the key political question of the future. 

Tagged With: AI, algorithms, machine learning, microwork, technology, technopolitics

Technology is No Guarantee of Equality

June 25, 2018 · Bartłomiej Kozek ·

Jędrzej Niklas of the London School of Economics talks to Bartłomiej Kozek about how algorithms can perpetuate discrimination and argues that they should not be left in the hands of IT people.

Tagged With: algorithms, democracy, equality, technology

Machines for the Evasion of Moral Responsibility

April 11, 2018 · Michael Sacasas ·

Algorithms as technical entities also function as the symbolic base of an ideology that abets thoughtlessness and facilitates the evasion of responsibility.

Tagged With: algorithms, responsibility, social media

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