Google Allegedly Used Homeless People to Train Pixel Phone
via Data and Society Institute
I'm not even sure I understand any of this. This is without a doubt a discussion that would have been impossible to imagine twenty years ago. (Although I think the idea is that "homeless people are free.")
"Should tech companies pay more for dark-skinned subjects because they’re underrepresented in training data? If our bodies are commodities, what’s a fair price, and who should set it? The data-ownership idea is, fundamentally, limited: Even if we manage, with the help of Hughes or Yang or state legislatures, to negotiate a high price for our data, we’re still for sale.Smart home tech can help evict renters, surveillance company tells landlords
— Sidney Fussell, The Atlantic
Nov 2019, CNET
When it's 2011 and you try to think about what face recognition will be used for in the next ten years... .
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