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Gokada CEO Fahim Saleh found beheaded, dismembered in NYC condo
By Brett Wilkins The chief executive officer of a Nigerian tech startup has been found dismembered in a luxury condominium in New York City. The New York Police Department confirmed on Wednesday that the remains
Ethics In Tech joins call for Microsoft to #DitchTheDAS surveillance partnership with NYPD
Brad SmithPresident of Microsoft1 Microsoft WayRedmond, WA 98052 Re: Domain Awareness System – New York City Contract Dear Mr. Smith,We, the undersigned civil rights and community-based organizations, call on Microsoft to end its surveillance partnership
Black Michigan man wrongfully arrested after false facial recognition match
By Brett Wilkins The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a complaint on behalf of a Michigan man who was wrongfully arrested and detained by police earlier this year after an incorrect facial recognition
Norway’s wealth fund urged to extend weapons ban to include killer robots
By Brett Wilkins An ethics committee appointed by the Norwegian government is recommending that companies that manufacture lethal autonomous weapons — killer robots — be excluded from investment by the country’s $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund. Bloomberg
US to ‘reinterpret’ arms pact to sell more drones
By Brett Wilkins The United States plans to reinterpret a decades-old arms control agreement so that US weapons companies can sell more unmanned aerial drones to nations including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates,
Amazon, Microsoft pause sales of facial recognition tech to police
By Brett Wilkins The current wave of deadly civil unrest sparked by police and white supremacist killings of unarmed black people including Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd and Breonna Taylor have brought increased scrutiny of tech
Ethics In Tech stands with #BlackLivesMatter
By Brett Wilkins From the moment I first encountered Ethics In Tech, it was engaged in intersectional solidarity. Back in 2014, when EIT was a one-man operation, I met founder Vahid Razavi not at a
The Trump-Twitter war, explained
By Brett Wilkins One would be remiss to say it all started with the tweets suggesting that MSNBC host and former Republican congressman Joe Scarborough murdered his young aide nearly 20 years ago. To do
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