Technosolutionism and human rights
summary
Examines concrete failures and fixes: COVID-19 contact-tracing prototypes and Bluetooth API changes that trade location nuance for broad proximity signals, government appetite to absorb datasets including use of census-adjacent datasets, and the automated welfare robo-debt failure that lacked human review. Traces cryptography export-control history, contrasts working examples like Signal, lists concrete mitigations — design for outliers, anticipate abuse, add safeguards, and require multidisciplinary checks so a released system is tested against the 20 doors it opens.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 6:02Techno Solutionism Is Inherently Political
- 13:27Historical Context
- 14:29Export Controls
- 15:34Apple versus Fbi
- 18:49Techno Solutionism
- 21:18Rally around the Flag
- 22:25Global Pandemic
- 26:26Census Data Collection
- 31:18Build Awareness in Your Community
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