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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Although many platform companies such as Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb have claimed credit for advancing a sharing economy—the preferred term for which is now solidarity economy —model, they don’t in fact fall under that category, because they seek to extract maximum profits from their operations. 39 This is a tiny share of the U.S.

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

When transcoding audio of voices, the worker knows they are putting into writing the words of a speaker with an Irish accent. Modelled on eugenicist theory, the software is used to capture people’s faces and compare the photos to existing databases, with the aim of identifying and locating people – often producing highly racist results.

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