We met with migrants to reflect on how tech is reshaping movement, borders, and power. This is what they told us

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The Data Labelers Association is developing mutual support structures and fighting for better working conditions. This inquiry recounts our path to founding it and acknowledges our ongoing partnership...

Petra Molnar argues that Canada’s Strong Borders Act expands surveillance and threatens refugee rights to appease the Trump Administration's demands.

Petra Molnar argues that Canada’s Strong Borders Act expands surveillance and threatens refugee rights to appease the Trump Administration's demands.

Exclusive: Shabana Mahmood told companies she wanted ‘deeper collaboration’ to tackle prisons crisis

Presenting her groundbreaking new book co-authored with Emily M. Bender, “THE AI CON: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want”, Alex Hanna unpacks the myths and marketing that surro...

The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...

Because they are based on centralization and abstraction, our current sociopolitical structures are susceptible to being replaced by AI. This is not only exemplified by the Department of Government Ef...

A new AI app pays civilians to track people crossing the border – no training, no oversight, no rules.

The largest data centers can guzzle millions of gallons of fresh water a day. Roughly 40% are located in the most water-stressed areas of the country, Business Insider found.

Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowdin...

Amsterdam’s struggles with its welfare fraud algorithm show us the stakes of deploying AI in situations that directly affect human lives.

Following a judgment against NSO Group, developer of the notorious Pegasus spyware, Tim Bernard reviews legal and policy avenues for combating spyware.

Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.

Private incarceration companies are playing a huge role in Trump’s deportation plans. The biggest detention centers in the country are run by private companies – many of which have tried to curry favor with the Trump Administration by donating to Republican campaigns or Trump’s inaugural committee. NYU Law Professor Rachel Barkow says the dynamics mimic the larger prison industrial complex. Co-Creator, Migration and Technology Monitor Petra Molnar says some tracking apps developed by these companies can be efficient, “But right now, what technology is doing is actually replicating racism, discrimination, carceral logic.”

The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

Social network company Meta is partnering with weapons-maker Anduril to develop military technology for the Pentagon using AI and augmented reality.

Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.

Lessons from the intersections of Sudan and Palestine in politics, media, and organizing.

PEER LEARNING CIRCLE The Pulitzer Center is seeking applications from civil society, academia, or researchers operating in Africa, Latin America, and South and Southeast Asia for a three-day virtual...

Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nationwide system for ICE.

President Trump’s plan to finish his wall along US-Mexico border puts wildlife conservation at risk

A new analysis of AI hardware being produced and how it is being used attempts to estimate the vast amount of electricity being consumed by AI.

Engage with activists, movements, and politically committed scholars at the Decolonial Conference.

The court injunction comes as the school launches a lawsuit calling Trump’s actions a ‘blatant violation’ of its rights.

He served his time in the US. He deserves to heal here, too.

If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help

The Systemic Justice Project at Harvard Law School is working with other organizations to launch a new initiative, the Justice Union, to bring together law students and lawyers eager to help defend…

The US House advanced a 10-year pause on state AI regulation, but its fate is uncertain in the Senate.

New initiative will address growing need for legal, safety, immigration resources

A new analysis of AI hardware being produced and how it is being used attempts to estimate the vast amount of electricity being consumed by AI.

[FREE TO READ] Letter from Department of Homeland Security signals new escalation in stand-off with university

Inside the effort to de-democratize AI

AI will reshape critical infrastructure, labor markets, and civic discourse long before it poses species‑level dangers, writes Atoosa Kasirzadeh.

Microsoft has made some changes to its email systems