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NYT: Eight Months Pregnant and Arrested After False Facial Recognition Match (with photo of Porcha Woodruff)

New York Times (8/6/23 ([link removed]) )

This week on CounterSpin: Why was Detroit mother Porcha Woodruff ([link removed]) , 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’s charges—dismissed a month later—were “appropriate based upon the facts.” Those “facts” increasingly involve the use of technology that has been proven wrong; the New York Times report ([link removed]) on Woodruff helpfully links to articles like “Another Arrest and Jail Time, Due to a Bad Facial Recognition Match ([link removed]) ,” and “Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm ([link removed]) .” And
it’s especially wrong when it comes to—get ready to be surprised—Black people.

Facial recognition has been deemed harmful, in principle and in practice, for years now. We talked in February 2019 ([link removed]) with Shankar Narayan, director of the Technology and Liberty Project at the ACLU of Washington ([link removed]) state. We hear that conversation this week.

Transcript: ‘Face Surveillance Is a Uniquely Dangerous Technology’ ([link removed])

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Newsweek: President Joe Biden's plan to cancel $39bn in student loans for hundreds of thousands of Americans

Newsweek (8/7/23 ([link removed]) )

Also on the show: Listeners may know a federal court has at least for now blocked ([link removed]) 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 Debt Collective ([link removed]) in March 2022 ([link removed]) . We’ll revisit that conversation today as well.

Transcript: ‘Student Debt Hurts the Economy and Cancellation Will Improve Lives’ ([link removed])

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Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at recent press coverage of Trumpism ([link removed]) .
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