How BLM is challenging Big Tech

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🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Geoffrey Fowler describes the questions Black Lives Matter is raising for Big Tech. Ben Golliver considers the future of professional sports. And Marisa Iati, on how one data scientist is pushing back against faulty coronavirus stats in Florida.

Black Lives Matter could change facial recognition forever – if Big Tech doesn’t stand in the way.

The NBA has a plan for the playoffs. But players and fans have questions.

Florida fired its coronavirus data scientist. Now she’s publishing the statistics on her own.

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0:00.0	This Post Reports podcast is brought to you by Facebook.
0:07.3	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:10.8	Hi there, is the mayor in Marissa Lang with the Washington Post?
0:13.7	Hey, it's Dossie, I want to pick your brain on the phone.
0:16.0	Hi, Wayne's, Janet Johnson.
0:18.4	This is Post Reports.
0:20.0	I'm Martin Powers.
0:23.4	It's Tuesday June 16th.
0:26.3	Today, the hollow promise from Big Tech on facial recognition,
0:32.4	the risky return of the NBA season, and a data scientist rebels.
0:40.8	A lot of times, the presumption in Silicon Valley is that technology is race blind,
0:46.4	or that the algorithms that they're creating and the business models that they're creating
0:50.7	treat everyone the same.
0:52.6	And we've really been having a well overdue conversation in Silicon Valley
0:57.6	over the last week about how that's not the case.
1:03.0	I am Jeffrey Fowler.
1:04.1	I'm Tech Calmness here at the Washington Post in San Francisco.
1:08.2	Some of the biggest tech companies, so IBM, Amazon, Microsoft,
1:12.5	all one after the other last week said they were going to either stop selling facial recognition
1:19.1	technology to police forces, or that they had never sold it and that they were not going to sell it
1:25.3	until there's some kind of federal law regulating it.
1:28.7	So we should point out here that Jeff Bezos, who is the CEO of Amazon, he also owned the Washington
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