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Timnit Gebru (she/her).
@timnitGebru@dair-community.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

"Emily [...] says she followed an ICE vehicle at a safe distance into a parking lot. “then someone leaned out of the passenger side of that SUV and took a picture of me and my car,” [...] the SUV made a sudden U-turn and barreled towards her, braking next to her driver's side window. A female agent wearing a gaiter-style mask [...] addressed Emily by name [...] ‘Emily, Emily, we're going to take you home!’ Then she looked at her phone and she recited my home address,”

https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/npr/nx-s1-5717031/ice-has-spun-a-massive-surveillance-web-we-talked-to-people-caught-in-it

NCPR

ICE has spun a massive surveillance web. We talked to people caught in it

The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools — purchased as its budget has ballooned under this administration — to monitor, apprehend and intimidate the people...
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spdrnl
@spdrnl@sigmoid.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@timnitGebru #palantir Peter Thiel is a self appointed narcissistic paladin. "We don't need saving, you're the problem."

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Steu
@Steutt@mastodon.uno replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@timnitGebru does t-shirt against facial recognition work?
Like https://antiai.biz/
Curious about a comparison.
Could help...

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SearingTruth
@SearingTruth@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@timnitGebru

"Have you ever wondered how good was so easily destroyed by evil in the past?

And thought to yourselves how ignorant and unaware those people must have been?

Well, look around.

Because the past is upon you."
SearingTruth

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Steve's Place
@steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@timnitGebru Their posting is messed up. The article is current, not from 1969. Weird.

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Steve's Place
@steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@timnitGebru The article has a Dec. 31, 1969 age date?

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Kierkegaanks regretfully
@Kierkegaanks@beige.party replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@timnitGebru Palantir is your friend

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josh g.
@joshg@mathstodon.xyz replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@timnitGebru You know, on the one hand, name and address is something they could get just from the license plate and DMV / cops.

but on the other hand, you usually hope that people who have access to that data aren't going to use it to be complete asshole bullies.

(acknowledging that might be my white privilege talking)

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