Racism and Technology Center Curated news, research and activism on the intersection between racism and technology. 25 issues Subscribe to our newsletter By subscribing, you agree with Revue’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and understand that Racism and Technology Center will receive your email address.
The Top400, how police tech reinforces power abuse, the perpetuation of stereotypes by AI-based image generation, and an automatic tool to remove racist language #25 Nov 26, 2022
Risk profiling with devastating consequences, defective altruism, and a racist AI-generated rapper #24 Oct 29, 2022
Racist robots, whitewashing the accent of call centre workers, and assistive versus punitive AI #23 Oct 1, 2022
#21 Aug 6, 2022 Dutch student files complaint with the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights about the use of racist software by her university – This month's newsletter is dedicated to one story only: student Robin Pocornie filing a complaint wit
#20 Jul 10, 2022 Meta addressing discrimination in advertising and mistreating a whistleblower, a guidebook on combatting algorithmic discrimination, and turning a Black person White
#19 Jun 11, 2022 State algorithms failing the most basic requirements, techno solutionism in the world of soccer, and a racist AI judging a beauty contest
#18 May 14, 2022 AI colonialism, the Dutch government using social media to spy on activists, and the silencing of Black women by tech journalists
#17 Apr 16, 2022 AI's reliance on exploitative labour, ‘algospeak’, and the racial bias of chest X-rays
#16 Mar 19, 2022 The case against racist tech in the Dutch municipal elections, abolishing tracking-based advertising, and oxymeters designed for white skin
#15 Feb 19, 2022 Centering social justice and de-centering tech, Facebook's racial profiling in its targeted ads, and the racial impact of unbiased traffic cameras
#14 Jan 22, 2022 How our world is designed for the ‘reference man’, restricting the future to its racist past, and using race as a (horrible) predictor of student success
#13 Dec 25, 2021 The racial bias of predictive policing, Dutch tax office fined for discriminatory data processing, and Uber using racist facial recognition to fire its workers
#12 Nov 27, 2021 The dangers of ‘race-blind’ content moderation, a history of surveillance, and a super racist AI for moral judgments
#11 Oct 30, 2021 Amnesty warning against another benefit scandal, regulating big tech to make sure nobody is excluded, and putting harmed communities central
#10 Oct 2, 2021 The limitations of ‘debiasing’, Big Tech exploiting marginalised people, and photo filters keeping colorism alive
#9 Sep 4, 2021 A call to government to stop using discriminatory algorithms, proof of Twitter's bias against dark skin tones, and racial discrimination in online pricing
#8 Aug 7, 2021 Automating racism, the double standard in content moderation on social media, and a stereotype reinforcing emoji keyboard
#7 Jul 10, 2021 Hiding the racialised impact of Covid-19, the impossibility of anti-racist tech companies at scale, and why a human in the loop won't fix all of AI's harms
#6 Jun 12, 2021 An improved camera app for Black people, the hidden costs of AI, and the EU's need for a new vocabulary to talk about race
