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Portland Commissioner Floats Penalty for Business Facial Recognition Use
A Q&A with Jo Ann Hardesty, Portland’s first black woman on the city council, who considers banning facial recognition a matter of civil rights.
Reporter’s Notebook: Behind the Scenes of a Fair-Trade AI Data Story
Some of the best parts of a recent feature story about the AI data industry involved a bagel-making Halliburton executive in Egypt – but they never made the final cut.
What’s Hidden in a Sidewalk Labs Government Contract
Portland’s contract with Sidewalk Labs limits algorithmic transparency, and fails to address law enforcement data access.
Is Your Data Scraping Ethical? A Movement to Update Research Ethics Reviews Is Underway
Amid data-scraping concerns and ethics board debacles, there’s a growing movement to change how corporations and academics gather and employ data for research.
Notes from a Reporter in Portland, a Sidewalk Labs City (and How AT&T Data Led to Replica Software)
RedTail’s Kate Kaye lives in Portland, OR, where a project with Sidewalk Labs is underway. She tells how AT&T data was used in research leading to the firm’s Replica software and offers a glimpse at other potential AI and emerging tech partnerships Portland has considered.