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A.I.’s Most Important Dataset Gets a Privacy Overhaul, a Decade Too Late

The authors of the image dataset that changed the world have made one long-overdue tweak

3 min readMar 19, 2021

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Jesuit Priests Pledge $100 Million in Reparations to Make Amends for Slave Labor and Sales

In the early 1800s, the Maryland Jesuit order of priests owned hundreds of enslaved people, forcing them to work on plantations and…

1 min readMar 18, 2021

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How to Make a Cloud-Free Security Camera for $3

A DIY device that won’t hand your data over to Amazon, Google, or anyone else

6 min readMar 12, 2021

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Tech’s ‘Diversity Theater’ Penalizes Black Workers for Speaking Out

Black tech workers are speaking out against the industry’s “diversity theater,” the practice of preaching diversity and equity while…

1 min readMar 12, 2021

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A Simple Way to Measure Whether Your Privacy Law Is Worth a Damn

States still haven’t matched Illinois’ 2008 biometric privacy law

3 min readMar 12, 2021

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‘Black people weren’t just happy to be on Clubhouse — they knew it wouldn’t be as popular if they…

From critically acclaimed live performances of The Lion King to Beat Battle rooms where 21 Savage, Wiz Khalifa, and Drake judged work from…

1 min readMar 11, 2021

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Facebook Scraped 1 Billion Pictures From Instagram to Train Its A.I. — But Spared European Users

The team purposely excluded Instagram images from the European Union, likely because of GDPR

3 min readMar 5, 2021

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China’s ‘Sharp Eyes’ Program Aims to Surveil 100% of Public Space

The program turns neighbors into agents of the surveillance state

7 min readMar 2, 2021

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Clearview AI Is Taking Facial Recognition Privacy To the Supreme Court

International regulators have found Clearview AI’s technology breaches their privacy laws

2 min readFeb 26, 2021

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The Shoddy Science Behind Emotional Recognition Tech

People’s facial expressions line up with their emotions less than half the time

2 min readFeb 19, 2021

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Dave Gershgorn

Dave Gershgorn

19.1K Followers

Senior Writer at OneZero covering surveillance, facial recognition, DIY tech, and artificial intelligence. Previously: Qz, PopSci, and NYTimes.

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