Johana Bhuiyan @JMBooyah Twitter profile

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Johana Bhuiyan

@JMBooyah

4 years

Sweetie everyone’s already washing their hands five+ times a day, covering their face, not shaking hands + avoiding bars. Not only are we already here, you’re all Muslim. Salam brother.

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You think COVID-19 is bad? Give me a break. Wait until Muslims hit critical mass in America. You’ll look back on these times fondly.

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Landed in Honolulu, & while waiting at baggage claim a sheriff with a canine had the dog sniff people & when he got to me loudly said “go girl, find it, find the terrorist.” My husband & I were taken aback. I’ve been sniffed by K-9 units at airports before but never heard this

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My niece had too much turkey.

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I was in fourth grade and adult women would stop me in the street to tell me to take off my hijab.

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Overall, Americans took 9/11 pretty calmly. Notably, there wasn't a mass outbreak of anti-Muslim sentiment and violence, which could all too easily have happened. And while GW Bush was a terrible president, to his credit he tried to calm prejudice, not feed it 2/

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My hijab isn’t making you uncomfortable, your racism and xenophobia is making you uncomfortable with my hijab.

The Times and The Sunday Times

@thetimes

3 years

Businesses can sack Muslim women wearing the hijab headscarf if they work face-to-face with customers or if the wearing of the religious clothing causes workplace conflicts, the EU’s highest court has ruled

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Without doing any digging or questioning I have no idea if this was targeted or not or if it’s routine to just…say that. But these are the kinds of interactions I remember constantly experiencing & having to question post 9/11. & I can’t believe we’re here again.

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And I’m not looking for sympathy, wasn’t sure whether to even say anything but just I can’t believe we’re here again.

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Here's our story on it: Nearly two years after the @latimes first revealed Amazon was dipping into driver tips to cover their minimum pay, Amazon is being fined $61.7 million by the @FTC

Amazon will pay $61.7 million to delivery drivers after withholding tips

Amazon's settlement with the FTC comes nearly two years after the Los Angeles Times first exposed its tip-withholding practices.

www.latimes.com

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Black and brown reporters are being pulled off assignments bc we’re too biased to cover our own communities but ok.

Josh Dawsey

@jdawsey1

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NEW: CNN anchor Chris Cuomo took part in a series of strategy calls with his brother and his brother's staff on how the governor should respond to misconduct allegations. Network says he shouldn't have participated and won't going forward. w/ @sarahellison :

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4 years

Ok now do this to my tweets about my articles plz

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3 years

This is a HUGE deal for Muslims. So many people use this app for prayer times, Qibla direction, etc & they’re selling location data that military & other contractors have access to. If you work at Muslim Pro & want to talk to me anonymously pls reach out to me. Signal # in bio.

Rowaida Abdelaziz

@Rowaida_Abdel

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Muslim Pro, the Muslim prayer app with over 98 million downloads is one of the apps connected to a wide-ranging supply chain that sends ordinary people's personal data to brokers, contractors, and the military. I hate that I'm shocked but damn

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5 years

New: Uber and Lyft drivers are preparing to strike next week after the most recent round of pay cuts. This isn’t the 1st strike but this time LA drivers are pulling from the playbook of traditional movements & also using tech to better organize drivers

‘I'm really struggling’: Facing pay cuts, some ride-hailing drivers prepare to strike

Frustrations are mounting among some Uber and Lyft drivers about wages and treatment.

www.latimes.com

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3 years

This is the third holiest masjid. It’s the last Friday of Ramadan.

Noga Tarnopolsky נגה טרנופולסקי نوغا ترنوبولسكي

@NTarnopolsky

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Exceptional documentation of police throwing shock grenades *inside* the al-Aqsa Mosque on the last Friday of Ramadan. ( @SuleimanMas1 )

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A Louisville police officer used a data-combing software called Accurint which is owned by Lexis Nexis to gather info about women then share it with hackers who'd use it to break into their Snapchat accounts to find explicit photos to exploit them with.

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An entire generation of Muslim children grew up post 9/11 knowing legitimately nothing else but a country that hated them and wanted them to go back to their countries. BUT OK PAUL.

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4 years

Did the controversy around Park 51 masjid not happen? War on terror? Muslim ban? Or was that all a dream

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2 years

A company that once sold cattle monitoring devices uses ankle monitors, facial & voice recognition to surveil 180k+ immigrants on behalf of ICE. Today we’re sharing the 1st in a 3-part investigation into BI Inc, an arm of private prison corp The Geo Group.

Poor tech, opaque rules, exhausted staff: inside the private company surveilling US immigrants

BI claims it provides immigrant tracking and ‘quality’ case management. A Guardian investigation paints a very different picture

www.theguardian.com

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@latimes One employee, a staff engineer named Sophie Haskins, gave her notice on Monday specifically citing the contract and said Github “shows no indication of canceling the contract,” which she wrote was “morally unacceptable.”

GitHub is trying to quell employee anger over its ICE contract. It's not going well

GitHub's announced donation to help communities affected by Trump immigration policies was a peace offering of sorts. But tensions inside the software firm are still high.

www.latimes.com

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Muslims in the West don’t get to be tired/exasperated after e/ attack. We’re forced to stay alert bc our mere existence is questioned at the highest levels of government & discourse. This isn’t new & if you think it is you’re just starting to pay attention

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::reads the room:: I guess since you’re all here this is a good a time as any to announce some ~professional~ news. Last Friday was my last day at @Recode . Next week, I’ll be starting at the @latimes as an enterprise reporter focusing on tech accountability.

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NEW: Github is doubling down on its defense of its ICE contract, saying cancelling it “could actually hurt the very people we all want to help," in a memo @latimes obtained. Employees are frustrated & one resigned on Monday over the continued work with ICE

GitHub is trying to quell employee anger over its ICE contract. It's not going well

GitHub's announced donation to help communities affected by Trump immigration policies was a peace offering of sorts. But tensions inside the software firm are still high.

www.latimes.com

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3 years

NEW: This is what happens when ICE asks Google for your user information

This is what happens when ICE asks Google for your user information

If you want to stop Google from providing your personal information to authorities who have issued an administrative subpoena, you need to act fast.

www.latimes.com

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Johana Bhuiyan

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4 years

A Doordash driver didn’t get paid sick leave even though a MD said he had to self-quarantine. Instacart workers want hazard pay. Amazon driver says he can’t get the $2/hr raise every1 is supposed to unless his rating is high. They say they’re not protected

Delivery workers are keeping California fed. They say no one's keeping them safe

Coronavirus relief efforts are leaving some delivery workers unprotected, they say.

www.latimes.com

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Johana Bhuiyan

@JMBooyah

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An asylum seeker spent 6 months in ICE detention unable to communicate with anyone bc AI translation tools didn't understand his dialect. His asylum app also had discrepancies: His home city, Belo Horizonte, was translated literally to beautiful horizon.

Lost in AI translation: growing reliance on language apps jeopardizes some asylum applications

Translators say the US immigration system relies on AI-powered translations, without grasping the limits of the tools

www.theguardian.com

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NEW: When SF chose Scoot for its scooter pilot, it was partly bc they promised to serve areas beyond downtown, esp the 7 designated communities of concern. But Scoot has drawn a red line around parts of 2 of those neighborhoods: Tenderloin & Chinatown

Scooter start-up promised to serve a whole city. Then it cut out two poor areas

Like 11 other dockless e-scooter companies, Scoot Networks was eager to obtain a coveted permit to do business in San Francisco.

www.latimes.com

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NEW: In what is likely a 1st cross company effort, a group of Google and Amazon workers are coordinating an effort to demand the companies cancel its $1.2 billion contract with the Israeli military. We published the letter here: We condemn Project Nimbus

We are Google and Amazon workers. We condemn Project Nimbus | Anonymous Google and Amazon workers

We cannot support our employer’s decision to supply the Israeli military and government technology that is used to harm Palestinians

www.theguardian.com

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Johana Bhuiyan

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4 years

Thank you all for your prayers. My aunt, who was a nurse on the front lines in Queens, passed away Saturday evening from Covid-19. She was only 54. I tried to write something to make sense of it.

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New from me: Muslims have been the subject of mass government surveillance for years, at times, for simply practicing their faith or participating in faith-based activities. That's why Muslim Pro's sale of location info felt like such a violation

Muslims reel over a prayer app that sold user data: 'A betrayal from within our own community'

The Muslim Pro app has features that make it easier to practice Islam. But revelations about its data collection have upset some users.

www.latimes.com

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Here's the original story breaking the news in early 2019:

Where does a tip to an Amazon driver go? In some cases, toward the driver's base pay

Amazon at times dips into the tips earned by contracted delivery drivers to cover their promised pay, a Times review of emails and receipts reveals.

www.latimes.com

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4 years

I’m gonna make Paul come with me through airport security.

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Ok Paul.

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My mosque burned down

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Also 1/5 of American Muslims are Black. So we’re talking layers and layers of dehumanization and surveillance happening for Black Muslims.

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I wrote about this research a few years back: muslims and Arabs were among the most dehumanized groups:

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Honestly the first thing I did when I first started reporting on this was search all my inboxes for an email that said notification from Google

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Being the journalist means my family barely knows what my job entails and also that I’m writing everyone’s speeches for my brother’s wedding

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Muslims, we don’t have to do the thing where we try to defend our religion and distinguish it from extremists. They know, they don’t care! We’ve done it for years, it didn’t matter. We don’t have to accept that we’re one of the few identity groups that has to condemn extremism

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4 years

Mm yes this sounds nothing like anti-Muslim sentiment.

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I am a New Yorker. 19 years ago, as a small child, my second memory - after being called a slur an hour after it happened - was of our masjid praying for a Hindu auntie in our area who was taken for Muslim, and run over. This is why I hate the NY/America came together narrative.

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I’m like laughing because 9/11 was SUCH a defining moment for Muslims that as a community we’ve worked to dismantle the idea that our existence in the US can only be described in the context of a terrorist attack so I guess Paul is telling us that it’s working

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NEW from me: Ring wanted to prove that it was an effective crime fighting tool, so it turned to a group of brand ambassadors. They were LAPD officers. At least 100 officers got free devices or discounts & were urged to promote Ring.

LAPD officers got free swag from Ring, some promoted its cameras to the public

Ring provided at least 100 LAPD officers with free devices or discounts and encouraged them to endorse and recommend its doorbell and security cameras to police and members of the public.

www.latimes.com

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i'm glad i'm not a media reporter anymore bc i won't have to try to explain how a company that cut its employees pay, furloughed them once a week for a few months and laid a bunch of people off then bought a whole other company all in the same year.

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It makes 0 sense that they didn’t ask the MANY hijabbi freelance writers out there to write this or test out the swimwear hijab. Why is the perspective and experience of this non Muslim, non hijabbi woman trying out a hijab while swimming at all relevant??

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@latimes This is just another example of the newfound sense of activism among tech workers, who are willing to publicly challenge their employers in an unprecedented way. Over the next month (& forever bc we love labor), we'll be looking closely at the last year of tech worker activism.

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Me when my editors asks how my draft is going

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Oh hm remember this, Paul.

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NEW: Instacart workers have seen spikes in demand but say the "pay doesn't add up," Interviews w/ workers & receipts we reviewed show they're paid about the same to do 2-3 orders at a time as they are for 1 order, despite the extra time & labor required

The coronavirus crisis has been great for Instacart. For its workers, it's a different story

Demand for Instacart's grocery deliveries has put new strains on the company's shoppers, who say they have little to show for risking their health.

www.latimes.com

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I got a bug bite on my eye for these pictures.

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The amount of hoops many journalists are jumping through to soften, downplay or otherwise caveat what Israel is doing and has been doing to Palestinians is depraved. Again all you literally have to do is open your journalism 101 books. Use clear, precise, accurate language.

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Everyday people find new ways to ask the world “what IS racism?”

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The LA Times is a newsroom full of dedicated journalists who routinely punch above their weight and have remained loyal to a publication in spite of years of leadership or ownership failings. To see it gutted in this way (again!) is devastating. What's the freaking plan?

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NEW: Clearview AI is facing a new lawsuit, this time in California. The lawsuit alleges the company violates all Californians' privacy & can chill their political speech & activity.

Clearview AI uses your online photos to instantly ID you. That's a problem, lawsuit says

By scraping the web for photos and extracting unique biometric information, Clearview AI violates privacy and chills protected political speech, a lawsuit says.

www.latimes.com

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And our story six months later in August 2019 when we broke the news Amazon was doing away with the practice:

Amazon ends practice of dipping into drivers' tips to meet their wage guarantees

The Times has confirmed that the company will no longer use supplemental earnings or tips to cover the minimum pay, and will pay drivers their promised minimum out of the company's own pocket.

www.latimes.com

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NEW: @githubbers have called in reinforcements in their fight against @Github 's ICE contract. Now 40+ open source developers -- a hugely important community to the co -- have signed a letter asking the company to drop the $200k contract

Developers join call for GitHub to cancel its ICE contract

Open source developers, GitHub's power users, are joining the software platform's employees in calling for the company to cancel its contract with ICE. A boycott could be next.

www.latimes.com

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Rebecca Rivers, one of 2 activist workers at Google who was put on leave sparking protests from employees, has now been officially terminated

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Friends, it's my first day at @GuardianUS where I'll be covering surveillance of marginalized and often vulnerable groups and will be helping figure out what kinds of stories our already stellar tech team will cover. (Hi @kari_paul ) Tips/fanmail: johana.bhuiyan @theguardian .com

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@JMBooyah

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CC: PAUL

Ramy Zabarah

@ramyzab

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Notably, my parents had to pull me out of my majority-muslim private school in 2001 because of daily anti-Muslim protests, multiple BOMB threats, and a general societal pressure to assimilate or face the consequences of prejudice. But you're right, overall pretty calm.

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New: Senators question Amazon over contract with company that @latimes & @ipvideo reported on Tuesday offered 'real-time Uighur warnings' + race detection

Amazon questioned over contract with company that offered 'real-time Uighur warnings'

Amazon faces questions from senators over a reported contract with Dahua, a Chinese security camera company that touted on its website the ability to alert police when its facial recognition software...

www.latimes.com

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NEW: LAPD shut down its flagship predictive policing programs amid public outcry over the feedback loop it created which experts say led to the over-policing of Black & brown communities. Newly public documents show its replacement shares much of the flaws

LAPD ended predictive policing programs amid public outcry. A new effort shares many of their flaws

Documents show how data-driven policing programs reinforced harmful patterns, fueling the over-policing of Black and brown communities

www.theguardian.com

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The DHS request was an administrative subpoena from ICE asking for IP address, street address & payment sources associated with their Google account. But critics argue bc administrative subpoenas aren’t court ordered, Google shouldn’t hand over any info

This is what happens when ICE asks Google for your user information

If you want to stop Google from providing your personal information to authorities who have issued an administrative subpoena, you need to act fast.

www.latimes.com

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Personal plea, my aunt who is in the hospital due to Covid-19, has been on a ventilator for a bit now & is dealing with a few other complications from the virus is getting worse. Please keep her in your prayers.

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Eid Mubarak to my Muslim brothers & sisters. May we all one day live in a world where our lives and rights are valued equally & we can live, breathe, exist & practice our faith without being ethnically cleansed, detained, surveilled, or stripped of our humanity.

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ICE also uses Accurint. So this is your daily reminder that Lexis Nexis (yes the software that librarians and journalists use) is a databroker that ALSO contracts with ICE and helps them get around sanctuary policies.

US immigration agency explores data loophole to obtain information on deportation targets

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) has contracted with private data brokers to get around some areas’ sanctuary laws, documents show

www.theguardian.com

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GitHub execs: we heard from non profits that “one of the greatest challenges facing immigrants is a lack of technology at ICE and related agencies” @RAICEStexas : Uh no

RAICES

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Github bosses claim in this story that nonprofits want ICE to have better tech. We can assure you that is not the case. ICE must be abolished & those responsible for human rights abuses brought to justice. Thank you @sophaskins & Github workers for speaking out. #NoTechForICE

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The Nakba was a casual "migration" of Palestinians?! CNN is running its reports by the IDF before publication? How can I ever in good conscience defend the media to people who have turned to unauthoritative sources instead of journalists when this is what we're doing?

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This is genuinely something that Amazon drivers have complained to me about, saying they’ve had cops called on them or been watched suspiciously esp if they’re POC in an affluent neighborhood. Amazon won’t give them uniforms bc they’re contractors.

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Message To Amazon: Now that you have regular people making your home deliveries.. Maybe they should wear a Vest with AMAZON DELIVERY on it..... I almost shot a MF creeping up to my crib last night.... Just sayin.

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The ~ can you tell my Uber driver to shut up ~ feature is insulting. This isn’t really directed at Uber, it’s the people who asked for it. They’re not robots you can just shut off. It’s their car, you’re not even paying them directly, & they spend all day driving.

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Immigrants in a privately run ICE surveillance program upload a selfie to an app called SmartLink with little idea what happens to their data. “It’s exactly like my [ankle monitor], but now it’s in my phone,” 1 person said she was told. Here’s what we know

A US surveillance program tracks nearly 200,000 immigrants. What happens to their data?

Guardian review of company’s policies raises privacy concerns amid fears records could be shared or monetized

www.theguardian.com

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Today in mansplaining...

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Love to wait months for public records requests and get this.

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We love a good chart

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New from @SamAugustDean & me: Employees at 6 Amazon facilities in Southern California have tested positive for coronavirus

Employees at 6 Amazon facilities in Southern California have tested positive for coronavirus

Coronavirus: Amazon workers at 6 Southland facilities test positive

www.latimes.com

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Amazon workers also said they were being told to stay only 3 ft apart, not 6 until recently. One complained they didn’t get any protective gear so he made a mask out of a paper towel and rubber bands.

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A Facebook Executive shared a post calling Muslims a "degenerate community." When she was called out on it she was like lol my bad I didn't mean to denigrate Islam. via @PranavDixit

A Facebook Executive Who Shared An Anti-Muslim Post Has Apologized To Employees

Ankhi Das expressed regret in an internal Facebook post — but some Muslim employees think the company needs to go further.

www.buzzfeednews.com

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ICE works with a private company to monitor 180k+ immigrants using ankle monitors & face recognition. The program lacks oversight & the tech is faulty causing immigrants to suffer physically/mentally & feel constantly afraid. Part 2 of our investigation:

‘Constantly afraid’: immigrants on life under the US government’s eye

Participants in the privately run Isap program, billed as an alternative to detention, describe painful ankle monitors and contradictory rules

www.theguardian.com

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@latimes Sources say the employees are trying to figure out what their next move is & are considering turning to the open source community to apply pressure to leadership. But organizing a distributed/remote workforce comes with its challenges.

GitHub is trying to quell employee anger over its ICE contract. It's not going well

GitHub's announced donation to help communities affected by Trump immigration policies was a peace offering of sorts. But tensions inside the software firm are still high.

www.latimes.com

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Barring anything absolutely wild happening between now and Thursday, this story on how unfair ratings can dramatically lower Instacart shoppers’ earnings is my last big story of the year. And it’s part of a series of stories I did on IC the last few months

Unfair ratings cost some Instacart shoppers hundreds a week. Here’s what’s happening

Instacart shoppers with higher ratings get first pick of orders. Those with lower ratings earn less, even when the ratings aren't fair, shoppers say.

www.latimes.com

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Getting married during the pandemic was weird. But 1 of the weirdest parts was buying my reception dress from Pakistan over WhatsApp. Turns out there’s an entire marketplace of India & Pakistan based clothing brands using WhatsApp to make sales. New ->

How south Asia’s bridal industry built a WhatsApp empire

Diaspora families typically travel to the region each year for wedding shopping. But the pandemic has changed everything

www.theguardian.com

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New from me: Lyft pays drivers who rent a car through its Express Drive program less per mile than all its other drivers. That makes it hard for some struggling drivers to offset the weekly rent, which start at $219.

Lower pay and higher costs: The downside of Lyft’s car rental program

It was an advertisement for Lyft that convinced Chris Berry to leave his small town and head to Nashville.

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You know what may have helped when I found out I was paid less all other mostly male senior reporters at my site? A union contract! Instead it was 1 of the reasons I decided to look for another job. I left Vox Media. Give everyone else a fair contract

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@voxmediainc The Vox Media Union has walked out today. Here’s what it looks like in the New York office.

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Another detail in here: We saw internal slack messages showing sales staff appearing to celebrate a $56K upgrade to the ICE contract. The message read in part: 🚨 🦅 🇺🇸 $56K UPGRADE AT DHS ICE 🚨 🦅 🇺🇸 5 people reacted with an American flag emoji

GitHub is trying to quell employee anger over its ICE contract. It's not going well

GitHub's announced donation to help communities affected by Trump immigration policies was a peace offering of sorts. But tensions inside the software firm are still high.

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Is the COVID-19 risk on airplanes really as low as the studies airlines are promoting say it is? Here's what experts say. (Not really.)(

Is the COVID-19 risk on airplanes really that low? Here's what experts say

The airline industry is promoting new studies that suggest the risk of contracting COVID-19 while flying is low. Let's take a closer look at the assertions.

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A thrilling use of the official White House Twitter

The White House

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Congressman Vern Buchanan had over $2.3 million in PPP loans forgiven.

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Today marks the 3rd week Instacart workers are striking over lack of hazard pay & protections during coronavirus. The strike builds on years-long frustrations with low pay & lack of transparency. We found out co policies all but ensure workers don’t get paid extra for extra work

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NEW: Instacart workers have seen spikes in demand but say the "pay doesn't add up," Interviews w/ workers & receipts we reviewed show they're paid about the same to do 2-3 orders at a time as they are for 1 order, despite the extra time & labor required

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NEW: A WhatsApp feature that generates images in response to users’ searches returns a picture of a gun or a boy with a gun when prompted with the terms “Palestinian”, “Palestine” or “Muslim boy Palestinian”, the Guardian has learned.

WhatsApp’s AI shows gun-wielding children when prompted with ‘Palestine’

By contrast, prompts for ‘Israeli’ do not generate images of people wielding guns, even in response to a prompt for ‘Israel army’

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NEW: I dove deep into what it’s like to be an hourly employee for Instacart. Shoppers are measured weekly for how many seconds it takes to pick each item, how many refunds they have to issue for out of stock goods & have 4 mins to accept orders b4 getting a strike against them

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Black and brown reporters: "It's not ok that governments are killing Black and brown people." Media: "You know what you might be too personally invested to cover this..." Meanwhile...

Josh Dawsey

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NEW: CNN anchor Chris Cuomo took part in a series of strategy calls with his brother and his brother's staff on how the governor should respond to misconduct allegations. Network says he shouldn't have participated and won't going forward. w/ @sarahellison :

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I reached out for comment and Twitter spokesperson Ian Plunkett said this tweet is not in violation of their policies.

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Guys, meet Sophie:

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Since it’s now appeared in print, I might as well say it here - I’ve resigned from GitHub and my last day will be tomorrow. Doing business with ICE is not okay.

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To keep their posts from being blocked on FB & IG, some misspell “Palestine” or “Israel”; others intersperse posts about Gaza with images from their everyday lives. IG users are advising followers to add a COVID-19-themed “Get Vaccinated” sticker.

Tech platforms' treatment of pro-Palestinian content raises bias allegations

Social media users say they've been been censored for views expressing support for Palestinians and criticism of Israel. Employees of Facebook and Google have also accused the companies of bias.

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And while we're here Equifax is also a databroker that offers a service ICE said it needed to get around sanctuary policies “Due to policy or legislative changes, [Ice] has experienced an increase in the # of...agencies...that do not share information."

US immigration agency explores data loophole to obtain information on deportation targets

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) has contracted with private data brokers to get around some areas’ sanctuary laws, documents show

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FWIW, I've sent inquiries to several companies incl. Google & Meta about plans for responding to law enforcement requests for user data in abortion-related investigations (& any plans to change data retention policies which goes hand in hand w/ this) & so far I've heard nothing

Ryan Mac 🙃

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Have to wonder how Google, Meta (Facebook), Amazon, other technology companies respond to subpoenas around future abortion law enforcement in certain states.

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We reviewed an email Google sent to a user notifying them that the DHS requested their user info. In it, Google said they have 7 days to respond with a court ordered motion to quash otherwise they may hand over their info

This is what happens when ICE asks Google for your user information

If you want to stop Google from providing your personal information to authorities who have issued an administrative subpoena, you need to act fast.

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NEW from @SamTLevin : New documents show how LAPD targeted Nipsey Hussle’s street corner and store. The LAPD designated his store as an anchor point or a point of interest as part of its controversial predictive policing program Operation Laser

Revealed: how LAPD targeted Nipsey Hussle’s street corner and store

Police sent patrols to stop people around The Marathon Clothing store, records show, as Hussle’s brother tells the Guardian: ‘Everybody would get harassed’

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‘We lay like corpses. Then the raping began’: 52 years on, Bangladesh’s rape camp survivors speak out

‘We lay like corpses. Then the raping began’: 52 years on, Bangladesh’s rape camp survivors speak...

In 1971, the Pakistan army began a brutal crackdown against Bengalis in which hundreds of thousands of women were detained and repeatedly brutalised. Only now are their stories beginning to be told

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New: Uber and Lyft drivers represented by Shannon Liss Riordan are asking a Cali judge to issue an injunction forcing the companies to comply with AB5 & afford their workers employee status/benefits including paid sick leave given the current Covid19 outbreak

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Clearview AI is being sued by 4 individuals including @stevenrenderos as well as @ConMijente & @NorResist who allege Clearview AI “engages in the widespread collection of California residents’ images and biometric information without notice or consent.”

Clearview AI uses your online photos to instantly ID you. That's a problem, lawsuit says

By scraping the web for photos and extracting unique biometric information, Clearview AI violates privacy and chills protected political speech, a lawsuit says.

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Community notes providing more meaningful context than many journalists.

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My dad whenever I tell him I met A Muslim in NY ™️:

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Uber and Lyft drivers are on strike today. What riders need to know

If you were planning to rideshare on Wednesday, there may be delays. Here's more info on the driver strike

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“When I look at the... team who are making $100,000 to $150,000 a year, and they get to go home without worrying about if they’re going to get paid, that bugs me,” a warehouse worker said. “Bc we’re still here and if we go home, we don’t get paid.”

Employees at 6 Amazon facilities in Southern California have tested positive for coronavirus

Coronavirus: Amazon workers at 6 Southland facilities test positive

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@latimes The memo also gave some more details about Github's contract saying "ICE has set up instances within the Homeland Security Investigations arm, M&A, and ERO divisions." The co did not comment beyond referring us back to their original blogpost

GitHub is trying to quell employee anger over its ICE contract. It's not going well

GitHub's announced donation to help communities affected by Trump immigration policies was a peace offering of sorts. But tensions inside the software firm are still high.

www.latimes.com

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