While Cutting Buses for the Poor, KCATA Signed a Secret Deal to Harvest Their Faces for a Private Company’s AI
A secret contract. No policy protecting riders' data. The Defender obtained the deal KCATA signed to harvest bus riders' faces for AI.
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Kansas City Killed the Data Center. The Tax Scheme It Was Feeding Is Still Alive
A Miami fund bought a 126-year-old downtown building, quietly signed away the right to demolish it, then asked Kansas City for permission to demolish it anyway and build a 20-story data center. A leading legal scholar reviewed the paperwork The Defender obtained and called it by its name. This week, Kansas City said no.
Eight Police Cars Swarm a Black Teen, Guns Drawn, Over a Bag of Chips. The AI That Called Them Is Coming to Schools Nationwide
From Baltimore to Kansas, states are pouring millions into militarized surveillance software for schools. An investigation into the AI that sent armed police after a Black teen holding a bag of Doritos.
Kansas City Prepares to Launch America’s First Public Bus Mass Biometric Surveillance Program
Kansas City wants to be the first city in the country to scan the face of every person who boards a public bus. The riders it would test the technology on are its poorest and its Blackest, and the company behind the cameras is a penny stock fronted by a man whose last company collapsed in fraud.
We Write to Wage War: The Radical Black Press As A Liberatory Technology
For 199 years, the radical Black press has been the infrastructure beneath every major turning point in Black American life. In an era of AI and social technologies, what is the role of the revolutionary Black Press today?
Independence Residents Fight a $6.6 Billion Data Center as Monday’s Tax Break Vote Looms
Independence is the latest front in a nationwide battle over data centers. On Monday, the city council will vote on whether to hand billions in tax breaks to a Dutch tech company for a project that, at full scale, will consume 18 times more electricity than every home in the city combined. Residents say they were never consulted.
Kansas City Killed the Data Center. The Tax Scheme It Was Feeding Is Still Alive
A Miami fund bought a 126-year-old downtown building, quietly signed away the right to demolish it, then asked Kansas City for permission to demolish it anyway and build a 20-story data center. A leading legal scholar reviewed the paperwork The Defender obtained and called it by its name. This week, Kansas City said no.
Eight Police Cars Swarm a Black Teen, Guns Drawn, Over a Bag of Chips. The AI That Called Them Is Coming to Schools Nationwide
From Baltimore to Kansas, states are pouring millions into militarized surveillance software for schools. An investigation into the AI that sent armed police after a Black teen holding a bag of Doritos.
Kansas City Prepares to Launch America’s First Public Bus Mass Biometric Surveillance Program
Kansas City wants to be the first city in the country to scan the face of every person who boards a public bus. The riders it would test the technology on are its poorest and its Blackest, and the company behind the cameras is a penny stock fronted by a man whose last company collapsed in fraud.
We Write to Wage War: The Radical Black Press As A Liberatory Technology
For 199 years, the radical Black press has been the infrastructure beneath every major turning point in Black American life. In an era of AI and social technologies, what is the role of the revolutionary Black Press today?
Independence Residents Fight a $6.6 Billion Data Center as Monday’s Tax Break Vote Looms
Independence is the latest front in a nationwide battle over data centers. On Monday, the city council will vote on whether to hand billions in tax breaks to a Dutch tech company for a project that, at full scale, will consume 18 times more electricity than every home in the city combined. Residents say they were never consulted.
