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Maine leads the way with nation’s ‘strongest’ facial recognition ban
June 30, 2021 by Ethics in Tech board member Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams Civil liberties advocates on Wednesday cheered as Maine enacted what that state’s ACLU chapter called “the country’s strongest statewide facial recognition
Amazon workplace safety initiative panned as ‘publicity stunt’
Originally published by Ethics in Tech board member Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams Labor advocates have responded with disdain and derision to news that Amazon and the National Safety Council are partnering to find “innovative solutions” to
New campaign to counter Amazon’s quest for world ‘dominated by total corporate surveillance’
Originally published by Ethics in Tech board member Brett Wilkins at Common Dreams To mark the one year anniversary of Amazon’s extended temporary moratorium on sales of its controversial Rekognition facial identification software to law enforcement agencies, over
New Study Accuses ‘Silicon Six’ Tech Giants For Inflating Tax Payments by $96bn
US tech giants known as the “Silicon Six” have come under siege after a new report accused them of inflating their tax payments, claiming in their annual reports to pay more in taxes than they
DC attorney general sues Amazon for alleged monopolistic price-fixing
May 25, 2021 by Ethics in Tech board member Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams Washington, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine on Tuesday sued e-commerce giant Amazon, accusing the world’s largest retailer of monopolistic price-fixing, stifling
Signal trolls Facebook by showing users what data is collected so advertisers can target you
May 4, 2021 by Ethics in Tech board member Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams After a coalition of digital rights and other groups launched a campaign on Monday aimed at thwarting Facebook’s planned privacy rollback on its
May Day Action: Petitioning Senators and Representatives to Break Up Amazon’s Monopoly
Happy May Day! International Workers’ Day, also known as Labour Day in most countries and often referred to as May Day, is a celebration of labourers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labour movement and occurs every year on May Day (1 May). In
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Ethics in Tech is proud to announce our new partnership with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons! Founded in 2007 in Melbourne, Australia and based in Geneva, ICAN played a key role in the
‘This is crazy’: Rep. Jamaal Bowman condemns NYPD use of robotic K-9 unit
April 19, 2021 by Ethics in Tech Board Member Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams Rep. Jamaal Bowman on Friday added his voice to the growing public outrage—especially in over-policed communities of color—in response to the
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