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Live Blog: Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights

Amy Sample Ward

Panelists include: Susan Pointer, Google’s Director of Public Policy & Government Relations. The technology itself is not intrinsically good -at Google we are advocates for free expression on the internet and free access for all; the technology istelf is and should be a neutral platform for this.

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

When transcoding audio of voices, the worker knows they are putting into writing the words of a speaker with an Irish accent. Google’s use of microwork for a US Department of Defense initiative, Project Maven, is a case in point. 16 As corrupt avatars for big tech, microwork sites hide the new satanic mills of firms that ‘do no evil’.

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