New piece from the face recognition research project! Huge thanks to @neil_selwyn and the whole team...
link.springer.com/article/10.100…

In honor of recent news coverage, re-upping 'The Jouissance of Trump':
'the U.S. self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience democracy's destruction as entertainment programming of the first order.'
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

'Automation' by Georgia van Toorn Mark Andrejevic Christopher O'Neill and Maitreya Shah features in Keywords of the Datafied State, Data & Society's new essay collection on concepts central to understanding the relationship between government and technology.

datasociety.net/library/keywor…

.Louisa Lincoln & I have a new article out that examines how public media could be reimagined & repurposed to better serve local information needs, arguing that a possible pathway is a renewed investment in the existing system in addition to structural reforms.journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

apple vision pro is a zombie technology. It doesn't matter if it's dead, it will keep coming for us. AR/VR/MR is the next frontier for platforming as much of our lives as possible...The tech industry needs this, which is why the tech will keep coming...

ping Thao Phan

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'synthetic data also satisfies a tendency immanent to capital, toward rendering the valorization process autonomous from human subjectivity' journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

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BREAKING: Billions of Pentagon dollars are shifting to Silicon Valley and Big Tech, according to our latest research. The top five contracts to major tech firms between 2019 and 2022 had contract ceilings totaling at least $53 billion combined. watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/pap…

This is key: 'humanities offer skillsets that can’t be replaced by emerging technology.'
Tech developments increase rather than diminish the need for the knowledge and skills fostered by arts degrees. Both students and employers understand this....

Great to see that the 'Cambridge Handbook on Facial Recognition in the Modern State' is now out, and open-access! Congrats to the editors Rita Matulionyte and Monika Zalnieriute

An amazing piece of reporting lifts the lid. nytimes.com/2024/04/06/tec…

'fakes of well-known people appear to be increasing – I don’t buy that the biggest tech companies in the world can’t do much more to get them off their platform.'
Yup. it's worth investigating how much Meta and other platforms make from these scams.
theguardian.com/australia-news…

📢 My NDSS Symposium keynote is up!

On how we lost the crypto wars, why surveillance advertising must be understood as the foundation of 'AI', & why the tactics of the past won't serve us in defending privacy today.

Text: signal.org/blog/pdfs/ndss…
Video: youtube.com/watch?v=XA2fRR…

This is why we need more humanities education. People don't even know what a book is for.