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April Glaser

April Glaser is an investigative journalist at NBC News, covering the technology industry and labor and workplace culture in Silicon Valley. Previously, she worked at Slate, Recode, and Wired, reporting on AI, surveillance, disinformation and hate online, and the politics of social media platforms. Before journalism, Glaser worked at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and various other nonprofits focusing on technology policy. She is a 2020 journalist-fellow at the Shorenstein Center at the Harvard Kennedy School.

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Opening the Black Box

With the resort to facial recognition technology and algorithms by governments and the private sector, big data and the “artificial” intelligence required to process that data are being deployed without any real accountability.
Tech investigations reporter at NBC News
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