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Why Facebook and other social media companies need to be reined in

Kaitlynn Mendes, Western University; Jacquelyn Burkell, Western University; Jane Bailey, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa, and Valerie Steeves, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

What can and should be done in light of response to the Facebook Files? The issues are undoubtedly complex, but solutions need to centre on children’s rights and prioritize what young people need.
Facial recognition algorithms are usually tested using white faces, which results in the technology being unable to differentiate between racialized individuals. (Shutterstock)

AI technologies — like police facial recognition — discriminate against people of colour

Jane Bailey, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa; Jacquelyn Burkell, Western University, and Valerie Steeves, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

Technology is not neutral, as facial recognition algorithms and predictive policing have shown us. Algorithms discriminate by design, reflecting and reinforcing pre-existing biases.
A Grade 6 student takes part in a virtual school session with her teacher and classmates via Zoom from her home in Vancouver, April 2, 2020. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward)

Children’s privacy is at risk with rapid shifts to online schooling under coronavirus

Jane Bailey, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa; Jacquelyn Burkell, Western University; Priscilla Regan, George Mason University, and Valerie Steeves, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

Children in our schools are the latest at risk in a brave new age of surveillance and data control that is being catalyzed by hasty educational technology decisions under COVID-19.

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