Hold up. For a decade+, the College Board published Advanced Placement racial+gender participation data. After using public $ to develop #APCSPrinciples and claiming increased CS 'diversity', they have now removed access to the data. What's going on College Board? #CSforAll

This Stanford Social Innovation Review + Ford Foundation #PIT series article by Ruha Benjamin and Greta Byrum give us hope for how the @ssrc_just_tech fellowship can help reinvent our sociotechnical systems to create a more just technological future: ssir.org/articles/entry…

Fascinating work from Rua M. Williams and team on perceptions of algorithmic & AI ethics

I’ve made 135 payments and worked 11 years in nonprofits for #PSLF. The notices I’m getting now don’t make sense & don’t match what I was told a month ago. Hold times for MOHELA and Fedloan exceed 2 HOURS!!! How will I figure out the way fwd? Extend the waiver!! The Debt Collective 🟥

250 groups, including ⁦Free Press Action⁩, call for a vote on ⁦Gigi Sohn⁩ nomination to ⁦FCC⁩ — and for Congress to reject dishonest industry lobbying campaign against her. washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…

Folks say a crush of tenants is causing soaring rents, a major inflation driver. But ProPublica found another dynamic at work: A tech co.’s little-known algorithm helps landlords “beat the market” – and push rents even ⬆️ Critics accuse it of undermining competition. 1/

I was invited to give this year’s James Baldwin lecture at Princeton. My message: quantitative methods have become tools to justify discrimination and excuse inaction. If quantitative scholars want to help, we must radically change our ways. Transcript: cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/talks…

⁦⁦⁦hypervisible⁩ 👁‍🗨Consumers may believe that they have nothing to fear (or hide) from luxury-surveillance devices. But these very devices are leveraged by their employers, the government, their neighbors, stalkers, and domestic abusers 👁‍🗨 theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

🚨NEW🔵: The Real Facebook Oversight Board is issuing 7 urgent demands of Facebook ahead of the 2022 U.S. Midterm elections. Urgent action is needed by Meta to halt the flood of disinformation and extremist content. Read more 🔗⤵️ rfob.medium.com/real-facebook-…

Another report showing clear evidence of #digitalredlining

Before the Nov. 21 comment deadline for FTC's Commercial #Surveillance & #DataSecurity Rulemaking, be sure to use Fight for the Future's public comment tool to join Open Tech Institute & other #privacy advocates in urging FTC to protect our #OnlineSafety & #DataPrivacy now: bit.ly/3CMIuHQ

Alan Davidson Governor Kay Ivey Boyd Rutherford April Delaney Governor Tony Evers Senator Amy Klobuchar Tina Smith Archive: Senator Jon Tester "This funding from the Biden-Harris administration will help to keep New Yorkers connected and build our digital infrastructure for the 21st century economy." - Governor Kathy Hochul Read more about #NY's nearly $7.2 million #InternetForAll grant here: ntia.doc.gov/press-release/…

Today Europe signed the 🇪🇺 declaration on digital rights and principles. A digital Europe that starts people and rights first. Let’s now implement it and make it real everywhere! Read the declaration here digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/di…

Five staff members on the “Books Unbanned” team at the Brooklyn Public Library have been recognized by Library Journal as Librarians of the Year. 6,000 teenagers have requested cards through #BooksUnbanned since the program began last spring. #Libraries #Librarians nytimes.com/2023/01/04/nyr…

Not every community in the U.S. has access to #broadband because the infrastructure was never built. A legacy of racist policies & practices is to blame. Katie Thornton & Greta Byrum discuss how we can move toward a future of #DigitalEquity for all on 99 Percent Invisible.

Great speaking with ⁦The Verge⁩ on the most recent chapter of the Red Hook WiFi story: Brooklyn built a disaster-proof mesh Wi-Fi network just in time for Hurricane Sandy. What happened? theverge.com/c/features/237…

Super proud to have an article in this stellar collection curated by the great @shannonmattern

⁦Michael Barbaro⁩ ⁦The New York Times⁩ not a metaphor