Written on 29 Mar 2022
This essay analyzes the ethics of AI that uses facial analysis to perform social classification, and criticizes defences researchers of such AI have used to jusitfy their work.
Written on 12 Mar 2022
In this essay, I look over the literature discussing ethics of emotion detection and recognition technology (EDR). I go over the views of emotion held by psychologists, philosophers and scientists. I discuss how one perspective based on basic emotion theory, "the common view", would become the most popular view and despite criticisms, how it go on to become intertwined with technology
Written on 06 Oct 2021
The surveillance of queer lives in Bangladesh have long ties to colonialism and queerphobia under state surveillance. However, Bangladeshi queer subjects come under another intense mode of societal and online surveillance. The illegitimate stateperson relationship and constant erasure and surveillance by society pushes sexual and gendered minorities under an authoritarian form of surveillance
Written on 11 Jan 2021
In this article I will analyze biometric systems at use in the airport, their colonial origins and the biases they operate on. Despite widespread trust by governments and airport authorities on these systems, I attempt to show the impact of these systems to perpetrate feelings of anxiety and stuckedness on racialized travellers.