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Mona Sloane

Mona Sloane, Ph.D., is a sociologist based at New York University where she works on issues of inequality in artificial intelligence design and policy.

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HEALTH SURVEILLANCE

Today’s COVID-19 Data Will be Tomorrow’s Tools of Oppression

We all face the risk that surveillance will turn state borders into 21st-century Iron Curtains, raising constitutional conundrums that would have been unthinkable just days ago.

Albert Fox Cahn

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