{"id":1177041,"date":"2023-08-11T15:48:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T15:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fair.org\/?p=9034769"},"modified":"2023-08-11T15:48:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T15:48:43","slug":"shankar-narayan-on-facial-misrecognition-braxton-brewington-on-student-debt-abolition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/08\/11\/shankar-narayan-on-facial-misrecognition-braxton-brewington-on-student-debt-abolition\/","title":{"rendered":"Shankar Narayan on Facial Misrecognition, Braxton Brewington on Student Debt Abolition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mp3jWrap_0\" class=\"mjp-s-wrapper s-graphic unsel-mjp  verdana-mjp\" style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span id=\"playpause_wrap_mp3j_0\" class=\"wrap_inline_mp3j\" style=\"font-weight:700;\"><span class=\"gfxbutton_mp3j play-mjp\" id=\"playpause_mp3j_0\" style=\"font-size:14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"group_wrap\"><span class=\"bars_mp3j\"><span class=\"loadB_mp3j\" id=\"load_mp3j_0\"><\/span><span class=\"posbarB_mp3j\" id=\"posbar_mp3j_0\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"T_mp3j\" id=\"T_mp3j_0\" style=\"font-size:14px;\">CounterSpin230811.mp3<\/span><span class=\"indi_mp3j\" style=\"font-size:9.8px;\" id=\"statusMI_0\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"s-nosolution\" id=\"mp3j_nosolution_0\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><script>\nMP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_0 = [\n\t{ name: \"CounterSpin230811.mp3\", formats: [\"mp3\"], mp3: \"aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWRpYS5ibHVicnJ5LmNvbS9jb3VudGVyc3Bpbi9jb250ZW50LmJsdWJycnkuY29tL2NvdW50ZXJzcGluL0NvdW50ZXJTcGluMjMwODExLm1wMw==\", counterpart:\"\", artist: \"\", image: \"\", imgurl: \"\" }\n];\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><script>MP3jPLAYERS[0] = { list: MP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_0, tr:0, type:'single', lstate:'', loop:false, play_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pause_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pp_title:'', autoplay:false, download:false, vol:80, height:'' };<\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9034770\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9034770\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\" wp-image-9034770\" src=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/NYT-Facial-Recognition-350x373.png\" alt=\"NYT: Eight Months Pregnant and Arrested After False Facial Recognition Match (with photo of Porcha Woodruff)\" width=\"250\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/NYT-Facial-Recognition-350x373.png 350w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/NYT-Facial-Recognition-600x640.png 600w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/NYT-Facial-Recognition-768x819.png 768w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/NYT-Facial-Recognition-640x682.png 640w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/NYT-Facial-Recognition.png 896w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-9034770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><strong>New York Times<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/06\/business\/facial-recognition-false-arrest.html\">8\/6\/23<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This week on <strong>CounterSpin<\/strong>: Why was Detroit mother <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2023\/8\/9\/porcha_woodruff_false_facial_recognition_arrest\">Porcha Woodruff<\/a>, eight months pregnant, arrested and held 11 hours by police accusing her of robbery and carjacking? Because Woodruff was identified as a suspect based on facial recognition technology. The Wayne County prosecutor still contends that Woodruff\u2019s charges\u2014dismissed a month later\u2014were \u201cappropriate based upon the facts.\u201d Those \u201cfacts\u201d increasingly involve the use of technology that has been proven wrong; the <strong>New York Times<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/06\/business\/facial-recognition-false-arrest.html\">report<\/a> on Woodruff helpfully links to articles like \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/12\/29\/technology\/facial-recognition-misidentify-jail.html\">Another Arrest and Jail Time, Due to a Bad Facial Recognition Match<\/a>,\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/24\/technology\/facial-recognition-arrest.html\">Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm<\/a>.\u201d And it\u2019s especially wrong when it comes to\u2014get ready to be surprised\u2014Black people.<\/p>\n<p>Facial recognition has been deemed harmful, in principle and in practice, for years now. We talked in <a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/josh-ruebner-on-bds-boycott-bans-shankar-narayan-on-face-surveillance\/\">February 2019<\/a> with Shankar Narayan, director of the Technology and Liberty Project at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu-wa.org\/\">ACLU of Washington<\/a> state.\u00a0 We hear that conversation this week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Transcript:\u00a0 <\/strong><a class=\"entry-title-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/face-surveillance-is-a-uniquely-dangerous-technology\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">\u2018Face Surveillance Is a Uniquely Dangerous Technology\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"mp3jWrap_1\" class=\"mjp-s-wrapper s-graphic unsel-mjp  verdana-mjp\" style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span id=\"playpause_wrap_mp3j_1\" class=\"wrap_inline_mp3j\" style=\"font-weight:700;\"><span class=\"gfxbutton_mp3j play-mjp\" id=\"playpause_mp3j_1\" style=\"font-size:14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"group_wrap\"><span class=\"bars_mp3j\"><span class=\"loadB_mp3j\" id=\"load_mp3j_1\"><\/span><span class=\"posbarB_mp3j\" id=\"posbar_mp3j_1\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"T_mp3j\" id=\"T_mp3j_1\" style=\"font-size:14px;\">CounterSpin230811Narayan.mp3<\/span><span class=\"indi_mp3j\" style=\"font-size:9.8px;\" id=\"statusMI_1\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"s-nosolution\" id=\"mp3j_nosolution_1\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><script>\nMP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_1 = [\n\t{ name: \"CounterSpin230811Narayan.mp3\", formats: [\"mp3\"], mp3: \"aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWRpYS5ibHVicnJ5LmNvbS9jb3VudGVyc3Bpbi9jb250ZW50LmJsdWJycnkuY29tL2NvdW50ZXJzcGluL0NvdW50ZXJTcGluMjMwODExTmFyYXlhbi5tcDM=\", counterpart:\"\", artist: \"\", image: \"\", imgurl: \"\" }\n];\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><script>MP3jPLAYERS[1] = { list: MP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_1, tr:0, type:'single', lstate:'', loop:false, play_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pause_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pp_title:'', autoplay:false, download:false, vol:80, height:'' };<\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9034772\" style=\"width: 278px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9034772\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9034772\" src=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Newsweek-Student-Debt-350x196.png\" alt=\"Newsweek: President Joe Biden's plan to cancel $39bn in student loans for hundreds of thousands of Americans\" width=\"268\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Newsweek-Student-Debt-350x196.png 350w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Newsweek-Student-Debt-600x336.png 600w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Newsweek-Student-Debt-768x430.png 768w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Newsweek-Student-Debt-640x358.png 640w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Newsweek-Student-Debt.png 870w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-9034772\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><strong>Newsweek<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/bidens-new-student-loan-forgiveness-plan-blocked-court-1818072\">8\/7\/23<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Also on the show: Listeners may know a federal court has at least for now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/student-debt-rules-blocked\">blocked<\/a> Biden administration efforts to forgive the debt of student borrowers whose colleges lied to them or suddenly disappeared. The White House seems to be looking for ways to ease student loan debt more broadly, but not really presenting an unapologetic, coherent picture of why, and what the impacts would be. We talked about that with Braxton Brewington of the <a href=\"https:\/\/debtcollective.org\/\">Debt Collective<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/braxton-brewington-on-student-loan-debt-andy-marra-on-trans-youth-rights\/\">March 2022<\/a>. We\u2019ll revisit that conversation today as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Transcript:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/student-debt-hurts-the-economy-and-cancellation-will-improve-lives\/\">\u2018Student Debt Hurts the Economy and Cancellation Will Improve Lives\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"mp3jWrap_2\" class=\"mjp-s-wrapper s-graphic unsel-mjp  verdana-mjp\" style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span id=\"playpause_wrap_mp3j_2\" class=\"wrap_inline_mp3j\" style=\"font-weight:700;\"><span class=\"gfxbutton_mp3j play-mjp\" id=\"playpause_mp3j_2\" style=\"font-size:14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"group_wrap\"><span class=\"bars_mp3j\"><span class=\"loadB_mp3j\" id=\"load_mp3j_2\"><\/span><span class=\"posbarB_mp3j\" id=\"posbar_mp3j_2\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"T_mp3j\" id=\"T_mp3j_2\" style=\"font-size:14px;\">CounterSpin230811Brewington.mp3<\/span><span class=\"indi_mp3j\" style=\"font-size:9.8px;\" id=\"statusMI_2\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"s-nosolution\" id=\"mp3j_nosolution_2\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><script>\nMP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_2 = [\n\t{ name: \"CounterSpin230811Brewington.mp3\", formats: [\"mp3\"], mp3: \"aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWRpYS5ibHVicnJ5LmNvbS9jb3VudGVyc3Bpbi9jb250ZW50LmJsdWJycnkuY29tL2NvdW50ZXJzcGluL0NvdW50ZXJTcGluMjMwODExQnJld2luZ3Rvbi5tcDM=\", counterpart:\"\", artist: \"\", image: \"\", imgurl: \"\" }\n];\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><script>MP3jPLAYERS[2] = { list: MP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_2, tr:0, type:'single', lstate:'', loop:false, play_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pause_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pp_title:'', autoplay:false, download:false, vol:80, height:'' };<\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at recent press coverage of <a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/brooks-defense-of-trump-defenders-disguises-where-real-power-is\/\">Trumpism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/shankar-narayan-on-facial-misrecognition-braxton-brewington-on-student-debt-abolition\/\">Shankar Narayan on Facial Misrecognition, Braxton Brewington on Student Debt Abolition<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/\">FAIR<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facial recognition, a technology that has been proven wrong, has been deemed harmful, in principle and in practice, for years now.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/shankar-narayan-on-facial-misrecognition-braxton-brewington-on-student-debt-abolition\/\">Shankar Narayan on Facial Misrecognition, Braxton Brewington on Student Debt Abolition<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/\">FAIR<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422,724,428,259,8317,13,641,142,262,263],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177041"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1342861,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177041\/revisions\/1342861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}