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📢NEW ARTICLE!!!
In which I connect Charles Babbage & his 19th c. blueprints for digital computation to industrial labor control & the creation of a regime of denigrated, disciplined "free" labor.
All of which has its roots in plantation slavery. 1/
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In which I connect Charles Babbage & his 19th c. blueprints for digital computation to industrial labor control & the creation of a regime of denigrated, disciplined "free" labor.
All of which has its roots in plantation slavery. 1/
logicmag.io/supa-dupa-skie…
Labor division, worker surveillance & record keeping are techniques that emerged on plantations as ways to extract as much labor from enslaved workers as possible. Well before they were deployed in industrial factories. 2/
Babbage was both the early co-designer of digital computing & an influential theorist of labor discipline. Both Babbage's "engines" & his labor theories repackage, expand on, and encode plantation techniques, particularly labor division and worker surveillance. 3/
Today we are proud to release two policy briefs that offer concrete options for addressing civil rights & human rights concerns related to #FacialRecognition technology.
Senior Fellow #RashidaRichardson of @GMFUS & @rutgersiipl reviews how #FacialRecognition is used in the public sector and surveys policy approaches designed to mitigate concerns associated with government use of facial recognition.
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Els J. Kindt of @CiTiP_KULeuven & @eLaw_Leiden explores 3 existing regulatory mechanisms that may be able to help address concerns related to facial recognition: data protection impact assessments, technical standards, and certification mechanisms.
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