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Saudi Arabia jails alleged satirist ‘identified in Twitter infiltration’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/09/saudi-arabia-jails-alleged-satirist-identified-in-twitter-infiltration

The Secret, Essential Geography of the Office https://www.wired.com/story/the-secret-essential-geography-of-the-office/

From Black Boxes to Open Systems https://rhizome.org/editorial/2021/apr/07/announcing-from-black-boxes-to-open-systems/

These artists formed a collective to reimagine Black architecture https://www.fastcompany.com/90623244/these-artists-formed-a-collective-to-make-space-for-black-architecture

Small Technology are everyday tools for everyday people designed to increase human welfare, not corporate profits https://small-tech.org/about/

Making sense of conspiracy theorists as the world gets more bizarre https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/apr/11/making-sense-of-conspiracy-theorists-as-the-world-gets-more-bizarre

Seeing stones: pandemic reveals Palantir's troubling reach in Europe
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/02/seeing-stones-pandemic-reveals-palantirs-troubling-reach-in-europe

Chasing White Supremacy into Tech’s Lairs
https://dev.lareviewofbooks.org/article/chasing-white-supremacy-into-techs-lairs/

#TheGlassRoom: #Misinformation Edition is now available to visit in #Vietnamese, the latest of over a dozen languages! https://theglassroom.org/vi/misinformation/

Throttling of Twitter in Russia https://censoredplanet.org/throttling

How Many Is a Trillion?

We hear about trillions all the time now, but the number is beyond human comprehension https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/06/style/trillion.html

How Elizabeth Loftus Changed the Meaning of Memory https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/05/how-elizabeth-loftus-changed-the-meaning-of-memory

After Working at Google, I’ll Never Let Myself Love a Job Again https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/07/opinion/google-job-harassment.html

EU grants will support sixteen organisations to shape and influence public and policy debates in Europe around Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Automated Decision Making (ADM) https://europeanaifund.org/what-we-fund/targeted-core-funding/

The Citizens’ Biometrics Council

Bringing together 50 members of the UK public to deliberate on the use of biometrics technologies like facial recognition
https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/project/citizens-biometrics-council/

Institute for Ethics in AI
Oxford leading the way in AI ethics https://www.schwarzmancentre.ox.ac.uk/ethicsinai

Ban Automated Recognition of Gender and Sexual Orientation
https://act.accessnow.org/page/79916/action/1

88The Misgendering Machines: Trans/HCI Implications ofAutomatic Gender Recognition https://ironholds.org/resources/papers/agr_paper.pdf

Fairness for Unobserved Characteristics:Insights from Technological Impacts on Queer Communities https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.04257.pdf

Are Covid passports a threat to liberty? It depends on how you define freedom https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/10/covid-passports-threat-to-liberty-freedom-pandemic