Chris Gilliard

Published in OneZero

·Feb 8, 2021

Note to Reporters: If Surveillance Data Shouldn’t Exist, Then Don’t Use It

The New York Times fails in its attempt to report on the surveillance economy — This op-ed was co-authored by Albert Fox Cahn, the founder and executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) …

Privacy

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Note to Reporters: If Surveillance Data Shouldn’t Exist, Then Don’t Use It

Privacy

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Published in OneZero

·Aug 27, 2020

Facebook’s Technocratic Reports Hide Its Failures on Abuse

These reports obscure a torrent of hate speech and other toxic content — If you’ve never read a Facebook “Community Standards Enforcement Report,” you probably haven’t witnessed the technocratic language used to obscure the harm done by the platform. Bluntly, it’s appalling. The report offers statistics about how much more effective the company is getting at removing material that violates its community standards…

Facebook

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Facebook

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Published in OneZero

·Jul 9, 2020

Facebook Cannot Separate Itself From the Hate It Spreads

The social network doesn’t just ‘hold a mirror up to society’— it does something much more powerful and concerning — Imagine a factory that allowed anyone to bring toxic waste there, any time of day or night, and promised to store it. Imagine that in addition to storing the waste, the factory would exponentially increase the amount of toxic waste and enlist wide swaths of the population into adding their…

Facebook

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Facebook

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