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odinsblog · 1 year

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IN THE FALL OF 2020, GIG WORKERS IN VENEZUELA POSTED A SERIES OF images to online forums where they gathered to talk shop. The photos were mundane, if sometimes intimate, household scenes captured from low angles—including some you really wouldn’t want shared on the Internet.

In one particularly revealing shot, a young woman in a lavender T-shirt sits on the toilet, her shorts pulled down to mid-thigh.

The images were not taken by a person, but by development versions of iRobot’s Roomba J7 series robot vacuum. They were then sent to Scale AI, a startup that contracts workers around the world to label audio, photo, and video data used to train artificial intelligence.

They were the sorts of scenes that internet-connected devices regularly capture and send back to the cloud—though usually with stricter storage and access controls. Yet earlier this year, MIT Technology Review obtained 15 screenshots of these private photos, which had been posted to closed social media groups.

The photos vary in type and in sensitivity. The most intimate image we saw was the series of video stills featuring the young woman on the toilet, her face blocked in the lead image but unobscured in the grainy scroll of shots below. In another image, a boy who appears to be eight or nine years old, and whose face is clearly visible, is sprawled on his stomach across a hallway floor. A triangular flop of hair spills across his forehead as he stares, with apparent amusement, at the object recording him from just below eye level.

iRobot—the world’s largest vendor of robotic vacuums, which Amazon recently acquired for $1.7 billion in a pending deal—confirmed that these images were captured by its Roombas in 2020.

Ultimately, though, this set of images represents something bigger than any one individual company’s actions. They speak to the widespread, and growing, practice of sharing potentially sensitive data to train algorithms, as well as the surprising, globe-spanning journey that a single image can take—in this case, from homes in North America, Europe, and Asia to the servers of Massachusetts-based iRobot, from there to San Francisco–based Scale AI, and finally to Scale’s contracted data workers around the world (including, in this instance, Venezuelan gig workers who posted the images to private groups on Facebook, Discord, and elsewhere).

Together, the images reveal a whole data supply chain—and new points where personal information could leak out—that few consumers are even aware of.

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thefreethoughtprojectcom · 12 days

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“We spent a lot of time listening to the United States putting lipstick on a pig, but the judges didn’t buy it,” Stella Assange told reporters outside the court building.

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/free-speech/london-court-rules-assange-can-appeal-us-extradition-on-first-amendment-grounds

#TheFreeThoughtProject #TFTP

#the free thought project #tftp #police state #julian assange #free julian assange #london #first amendment #1st amendment rights

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serious2020 · 11 months

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SF to dismiss almost all cases against Dolores hill bomb teens

San Francisco officials to dismiss cases against 79 of the 81 teenagers arrested for hill bomb rioting. Status of arrested adults is unclear. — Read on missionlocal.org/2023/07/hill-bomb-sf-to-dismiss-almost-all-charges-against-teens/

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geezerwench · 1 year

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In June 2022, the Orem City Council banned the public library from maintaining a display for Pride Month in the children’s and teen’s areas. It later expanded the prohibition throughout the library and to displays for women’s history and minority groups. While most federal holidays, including the 4th of July, Columbus Day, and Christmas were exempt from the ban, others — such as Juneteenth — were not.

We’ve heard of librarians shushing loud-talkers. But in Orem, Utah, city officials are telling librarians to zip it — or else.

The librarians were punished and censored for criticizing their local government.

That’s why FIRE is stepping in.

FIRE is giving city officials one chance to learn they can’t punish librarians & their association for criticizing the government’s restrictions of book displays in the public library.

#Utah #Orem Utah #libraries #librarians #1st amendment rights #1st amendment #freedom of speech #employees rights #ULA #Utah Library Association

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thespookiestprincessofthemall · 3 months

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We have one day left before they addressed wether to pass the KOSA bill or not, you think this wouldn't be a problem but It is, they're going to violate the 1st amendment, not just to the children but to the adults as well, including but not limited to the people who are fighting for Palestines rights, and I don't mean we simply won't be able to fight for their rights, though thats bad enough, I mean we're going to be targeted by the government If this bill comes to fruition, If you actually care for us and the lives of the innocent PLEASE call your representatives and your senators, and PLEASE sign a petition against KOSA, I BEG OF YOU, PLEASE HELP US!

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theconstitutionisgayculture · 2 years

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#human rights #constitution #bill of rights #1st amendment #2nd amendment

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thoughtportal · 10 months

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In an email to constituents raising concerns about KOSA, Representative Frost writes, “Proposals that involve filtering or identification requirements on sites, like the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), would have unintended consequences that undermine our goal of an enriching and educational Internet experience and far outweigh their benefits. They jeopardize kids’ privacy through increased data collection and promote inappropriate parental surveillance which can keep children experiencing domestic abuse from seeking help. Governor DeSantis has championed these policies as a way to censor LGBTQ+ content, like LGBTQ+ mental health resources and HIV prevention information, that can be essential to kids’ well being.”

Representative Frost is absolutely right, and his comments are in line with what human rights, free expression, civil liberties, and civil rights experts have been saying for months. There is tremendous urgency around holding Big Tech companies accountable, but KOSA is not the solution.

Representative Frost goes on to say, “Instead, I support proposals that shape the underlying design of online services commonly used by kids, including social media and video game platforms, to better serve them. These include requiring providers to default to the highest privacy setting possible for minors; ending algorithms that push children toward inappropriate content; using clear, concise language that kids can understand for terms of service; and further limiting and securing the collection of children’s data. We deserve an internet that works for all of us, especially kids.”

Fight for the Future has long called for strong Federal data privacy legislation, a ban on the use of personal data to power recommendation algorithms, and an end to manipulative design features like auto play, infinite scroll, and intrusive notifications. Representative Frost rightly points out that there are many things we can do to crack down on Big Tech abuses without empowering extreme right wing attorneys general to attack trans kids and censor content they don’t like. We hope other members of Congress will join him in speaking out against misguided legislation like KOSA, so that we can work together toward meaningful legislation that addresses the harms of Big Tech without throwing marginalized kids and human rights under the bus.

#article #stop KOSA #KOSA #online privacy #lgbtq rights #LGBTQ #social media #1st amendment #first amendment #privacy #internet

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eternalistic · 1 year

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“Correctional facilities across the country have a variety of rationales they use to justify this, but largely it boils down to the fact that scanned electronic mail is easier to surveil than physical mail. NYC’s plan is ostensibly in response to a spike in overdoses in NYC’s jail system.”

“Council members also had privacy concerns should mail be recorded off-site by a private contractor. [...] Such data can be retained far into the future and be used against people even if they have never been charged with a crime, have been released from jail, or have had charges dismissed...” “Previous attempts to digitize mail have resulted in first amendment lawsuits.”

#vice #civil rights #right to privacy #prison reform #us prisons #mail #fourth amendment #4th amendment #prisoners rights #prison industrial complex #human rights #first amendment #1st amendment

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agentfascinateur · 23 days

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The high price of the US-Israel blank cheque relationship:

Pro-Israel forces in the U.S. are attacking our own democratic freedoms in order to suppress public outcry about apartheid and potential genocide 6,000 miles away.

Or the parasite eating its host...

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news4dzhozhar · 28 days

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gwydionmisha · 2 days

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Trump told donors he will crush pro-Palestinian protests, deport demonstrators

#Donald Trump #pro-Palestinian protests #1st Amendment #War on Freedom #Human Rights Abuses #Authoritarianism #News

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chaos-in-one · 1 year

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Conservative Americans showing 0 understanding of what Freedom of Speech means will never not be funny to me

Freedom of Speech protects you from the government, not from randos online telling you to shut the fuck up because you said something bigoted

#leftist #left wing #anti conservative #politics #political discourse #1st amendment #I don't usually make posts like this I have 0 clue how to properly tag this #american politics #american #anti right wing

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jbfly46 · 11 months

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#1st amendment #Freedom of Speech #2nd amendment #Right to Bear Arms

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serious2020 · 1 year

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National Black Radical Organizing Conference - Community Movement Builders

National Black Radical Organizing Conference – Community Movement Builders — Read on communitymovementbuilders.org/national-black-radical-organizing-conference/

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#1st Amendment Rights #African/Black experience #Afrikan #Artists #Black Panther Party #culture #Haiti #liberation #ll #media #Political Prisoners #protest #revolutionary #revolutionary leaders #war #War on Afrikans

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vermillioncrown · 5 months

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the things that bothers me about those pithy positivity posts wrt creating and art are:

1. they implicitly assume good faith behavior from everyone

2. it's difficult to untangle a creator's intent vs their biases; most ppl don't bother to do so, those who try usually aren't precise

3. the shittiest ppl co-op those as excuses for never introspecting or growing

#opinionated verm #also the antis don't help bc they've now forced this false dichotomy of pro vs anti censorship #there's a post abt 'critique' that i 90% agreed w but it took roz's tags for me to see what didn't jive #articulating thoughts on that later #the tldr is like the us constitution first amendment + that quote from the mcelroys #''1st amendment protects you from the govt but not from the justin'' or w/e #you can post whatever you want and ppl have a right to react to it #sometimes ppl don't fucking get what you've done #sometimes you gotta re-evaluate yourself #it's situational #i've only seen ppl w weakest sense of self needing to cling to ''i do what i want'' to justify their work

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queerism1969 · 1 year

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