"...in a world in which data is power, and that power is wielded unequally, data feminism can help us understand how it can be challenged and changed."

Morning Tech Futures Lab! Looking forward to sharing my thoughts on data science with your November cohort today. Bring on the provocative questions! #techfuturenews

Theme of the day: #algorithms are tools, but #datascience is a mindset. With citizen "data science" (a.k.a. tools) becoming increasingly accessible, we must stay true to the "science": context, rigour and critical thinking buff.ly/2zBP1ot #techfuturenews

We can only be friends if you know what these are from (originally not candles)

More lifelike face masks

So it begins

US job applicants are getting a single number that determines if they get a job. That number comes from a bollocks AI system that claims to rate their social media activity. And people think 'social credit scores' are just in China 🤔

internet.....connected.....wood

Data brokers and the hidden data ecosystem privacyinternational.org/feature/2433/i… #techfuturenews

Is solving "AI bias" distracting us from asking why we're using surveillance-based classification systems in the first place? medium.com/s/story/the-se… #techfuturesnews

... and last but not least for this morning: what would a talk on data and privacy be without the mention of Facebook. technologyreview.com/s/613084/zucke… #techfuturenews

Actress and scientist Hedy Lamarr was born today in 1914. On 11 August 1942 she was awarded a patent for her idea of a "frequency-hopping spread spectrum" for use in torpedo guidance systems. Nowadays we call it Wi-Fi.

Someone on TikTok asked if I could recommend books about tech ethics and I have never been so hyped to create a piece of content in my life. vm.tiktok.com/ZMJV3WPj8/

This fellowships sounds incredible... applications close Dec 13th!

Come see this at St Matthew's in Auckland's CBD! We'll be here for one more day, so do drop in and check it out. (Mandy of the Newts & Brendan Boughen)

From Disorder to Action: Solving the Climate Misinformation Crisis ... by Alex Garkavenko (Alex Garkavenko 🇺🇦) #InternetWeatherReport #climatechange #misinformation #COP27 tohatoha.org.nz/2022/10/from-d…