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Taking on the tech giants: the lawyer fighting the power of algorithmic systems
Whether it’s the CIA or Facebook, lawyer and activist Cori Crider is never one to shy away from a fight
‘It’s not as if I haven’t spent time with graphic material’: Cori Crider. Photograph: Suki Dhanda/The Observer
‘It’s not as if I haven’t spent time with graphic material’: Cori Crider. Photograph: Suki Dhanda/The Observer
EdSiddons
Sun 28 Feb 2021 05.00 EST
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In July 2019, Cori Crider, a lawyer, investigator and activist, was introduced to a former Facebook employee whose work monitoring graphic content on the world’s largest social media platform had left deep psychological scars. As the moderator described the fallout of spending each day watching gruesome footage, Crider was first struck by the depth of their pain, and then by a creeping sense of recognition.
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Netanel Gams
Feb. 24, 2021
“One thing bothers me,” said Prof. Eugene Kandel five years ago, “and that is the phenomenon of unionization in big high-tech companies. If we see this happen in one or two companies, we’ll see a massive exit of companies from Israel.”
Two months after Kandel – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s former economic adviser and today the CEO of Startup Nation Central – made these remarks at the annual Herzliya policy conference, workers at the big tech company Amdocs declared a formal labor dispute.
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Google has fired both leaders of its Ethical AI unit, raising concerns about the direction of the team as the company has come under fire about a number of diversity issues. The December firing of ethical AI expert Timnit Gebru has been cited as one of the reasons workers formed the Alphabet Worker Union, the first major union in Silicon Valley.