Expert rejects Met police claim that study backs bias-free live facial recognition use | Facial recognition | The Guardian https://share.google/VC99CrEZYisnahXWA

Infrastructures of Exclusion. Àadhaar fails most often with the most marginalized reproducing and amplifying intersectional patterns of (dis)advantage.
https://idronline.org/article/rights/infrastructures-of-exclusion-how-e-kyc-impacts-access-to-food/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=sm&s=09

Microsoft's role in illegal settlements, apartheid Israel, and genocide. Tech for Palestine.
https://youtu.be/4k_yA9G8ciE?feature=shared

Your Cloud is Our Drinking Water.
Tucson community forces city council to unanimously reject huge new Amazon data centre.
https://azluminaria.org/2025/08/06/tucson-city-council-rejects-project-blue-amid-intense-community-pressure/

Can digital public infrastructure (DPI) be considered to be a colonial technology?
And if so, what would be necessary to decolonise DPI?
http://appropriatingtechnology.org/

Personal data is power and Trump's DOGE is symphoning it all into a master data set.
https://techpolicy.press/the-new-surveillance-state-why-data-privacy-is-now-essential-to-democracy

AI’s benefits are overstated and underproven, from cancer cures to hypothetical economic growth – while some of its flaws are real, immediate, and growing.
AI Now Institute
https://ainowinstitute.org/publications/research/executive-summary-artificial-power

How 'banking the unbanked' drew millions of Africans into the thrall of vulture capitalism. Unregulated FinTech loans is a new form of digital exploitation: "a ticking time bomb" of chronic indebtedness. https://techcabal.com/2025/05/16/bnpl-startups-debt-crisis-kenya/

Diplomats said the US state department pressure on African governments to issie licences to Musk's Sarlink company were an alarming departure from standard practice — because of both the tactics used and the person who would benefit most from them. Corruption at the highest level.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-musk-starlink-state-department-gambia-africa-pressure?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1747360803&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&s=09

Musk is programming white genocide disinformation into his AI bot Grok, once more proving genAI is neither artificial or intelligent, and that digital technologies reflect and reproduce the politics of their inventors/investors/programmers.
#TechnologyIsPolitics

Launching the new book 'Digital Surveillance in Africa' authored by members of the African Digital Rights Network (ADRN) a virtual network of 75+ African researchers from 30+ African countries. #DRIF25
https://www.africandigitalrightsnetwork.org/publications

A new dataset, visualized as maps, reveals the extent to which African workers are indirectly employed in the tech sector, doing content moderation, customer service, and data annotation for AI models, among other jobs. https://restofworld.org/2025/big-tech-ai-labor-supply-chain-african-workers/

Meta is facing a second set of lawsuits in Africa over the psychological distress experienced by content moderators employed to take down disturbing social media content including depictions of murders, extreme violence and child sexual abuse.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/27/meta-faces-ghana-lawsuits-over-impact-of-extreme-content-on-moderators