Recent & upcoming news, work in media, conferences, etc.
I have a new preprint available, for a mixed-methods paper we submitted to CSCW this year arguing that Ring Neighbors is used to racially gatekeep communities in Los Angeles and beyond.
CSCW 2022
July 2021
I released a report showing that Shipt's new "black box" payment algorithm is paying 40% of their workers less, using a texting bot that aggregated pay data from workers
Oct. 2020
I gave an hour-long talk at HOPE 2020 on how I "hacked" the Ring Neighbors app to partially uncover the breadth of Amazon Ring's growing surveillance network
HOPE 2020
Oct. 2020
I presented early results using statistical methods to estimate which U.S. counties are more likely to use the Ring Neighbors platform at IC2S2 2020. You can find a PDF of the extended abstract here.
ic2s2 2020
I wrote an article for Gizmodo arguing that we need to have a more public discussion about using surveillance to manage the COVID-19 pandemic. If we don't approach these tools right, we might end up with a stronger surveillance state lingering well after the pandemic ends.
Gizmodo
Apr. 2020
A map I made as part of an ongoing research project to understand how communities surveil themselves was featured in a piece in Gizmodo by Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra. Also covered in Cory Doctorow's newsletter.
Gizmodo
Dec. 2019
A mixed-media exhibition I created as part of our Atlas of Inequality project was exhibited for a month in the National Museum of China. It featured four large-format prints and an interactive exhibit.
National Museum of China
Oct. 2019
This year I'll be hosting a session at MozFest on the location data market, and how the use of "private" location data for public good is a bit problematic. We'll also be brainstorming alternate data governance mechanisms!
Mozfest
Oct. 2019
I testified alongside Gabriel Teninbaum, EPIC Policy Director Caitriona Fitzgerald, MIT Researcher Karthik Dinakar, and ACLU's incredible Kade Crockford, among others.
MA Statehouse
Sep. 2019
Computational social science researcher living in Boston