@elinorcarmi.bsky.social
🌈 Feminist Senior Lecturer in data politics and social justice at City st. George's, Uni of London, UK. She/her. https://elinorcarmi.com/ Working on data politics/feminist data/data&AI literacies/data justice/digital rights/ad tech industry/surveillance.
“Instead of paying humans to join focus groups and complete surveys, Aaru uses thousands of AI agents, or bots, to simulate human responses. It feeds demographic and psychographic information into its models to create human profiles that match clients’ needs…”
"But a Guardian investigation has shown the money isn’t necessarily real... the UK example will raise fears that, without oversight, the value of these investments may simply enrich companies and investors that are largely headquartered in the US"
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
A new hobbyist developed app warns if people nearby may be wearing smart glasses, such as Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses, which stalkers and harassers have repeatedly used to film people without their knowledge or consent. www.404media.co/this-app-war...
🚨 New report from People vs Big Tech: Algorithms on X & TikTok disproportionately push content from far right parties to new users, squeezing out moderate parties. EU & French authorities must enforce the Digital Services Act to protect democracy.
peoplevsbig.tech/x-and-tiktok...
this is something we deal with on a daily basis now as reporters. unfortunately I think more and more people are going to find themselves struggling with a friend or family member who is going through "ai psychosis" www.404media.co/ai-psychosis...
👇👇👇 So yes, this is finally out. We explored how AI chatbots respond to queries that indicate an interest in conspiracy theories – and the results are very mixed.
Also, in news that will surprise no-one, Grok is exceptionally terrible, and its “Fun Mode” is spectacularly unfunny. 😫
I'm now recruiting for a crucial post in my team - Curator: Parliamentary Art Collection. A rare chance to work with a wonderful collection in a unique setting.
Please do share, and feel free to get in touch with any questions
Amazing, thank you!
It still blows my mind that the UK doesnt do preventative medicine and just wait for people to get sick, in the end it costs more money and lives.
- No breast cancer check ups under 50 years old.
- many doctors gaslight women about perimenopause/ menopause symptoms because they do not know what they are even though more than half of the population experiences them.
- making it difficult to get HRT.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
They should do a new one for LinkedIn!
Absolutely, I don't think enough companies and brands are here but they should definitely do a new one for LinkedIn.
Thanks for the update! I try not to go on X so I won't check the link though 😉
A common argument put forward by British AI boosters is that we *have to* hand the life’s work of the UK’s creatives to AI companies, because other countries are doing so.
But they are wrong, for three reasons.
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The gender pay gap bot was such an amazing initiative which I taught my students as an example of D'Ignazio and Klein's Data Feminism Challege Power principle. Does anyone know what happened to it? Are they on Bluesky? 🤔
New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...
Must thread by Ed about AI & copyright.
We already had a landmark court case in September 2025 where Anthropic has to pay more than a billion to authors.
After last year's #MakeItFair campaign it should be clear this is the way forward for fair & ethical use of works.
www.npr.org/2025/09/05/g...
No, BBC, end-to-end encryption isn’t ’controversial privacy tech’, it’s industry standard protection
Having literally surveyed the workers in these industries on this very question…. Wow, no.
If you want to understand how web-cookies and real-time-bidding have been standardised through lobbying you should check out my book Media Distortions (open access) www.peterlang.com/document/106...
Governments have been reluctant to regulate this market, and this is an example of why they want it.
Absolutely. You should write a paper on your experience in AM panels!
Yep we havw a project we conducted with students and very few know what it is....
The government's own data shows that people think AI is more likely to have a negative impact on discrimination/equality in society.
But not to worry, as it seems growth is all that matters.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
No mention of the notorious AI Skills Hub 😉 but if you want to understand how problematic it is for UK's democracy then check out our @techpolicypress.bsky.social piece with @taniaduarte.bsky.social, @markwong.bsky.social, @suoman.bsky.social & @timdavies.org.uk
www.techpolicy.press/the-real-cos...
Now listening to the Science & Technology committee. Listening to Liz Kendall saying that growth is the main thing driving her department (no surprise).
Also apparently ppl should not worry about AI because the workers in these industries know how good they are.
parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
It would mean the lobbying by big US tech firms had succeeded, and the protests of the UK's creatives had been ignored.
People's work is not the government's to give away.
If you're in the UK and you care about creatives and the creative industries, please write to your MP!
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🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.
This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.
Please spread the word.
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Why I said we need anti-surveillance laws not privacy laws... this isn't ok just because they 'anonymised' the data.
