Immediate Release: Tuesday, October 13 Contact: Eteng Ettah, [email protected], (510) 698-3800 x 413 MediaJustice launches pledge for consumers to Break Up with Amazon’s racist spy machine MediaJustice launched, Break Up with Amazon, a new campaign calling on consumers to sign a pledge to move on from Amazon and its home surveillance company, Ring. Amazon forms …
A petition signed by hundreds of grassroots organizations to encourage the FCC to pass open Internet rules.
MY ORGANIZATION PLEDGES TO BE A DIGITAL INCLUSION CHAMPION.
We support the Media Action Grassroots Network. As a Digital Inclusion Champion, my organization asks the FCC and Congress to create a National Broadband Plan that defines broadband as a universal service, and network neutrality rules that protect an open and non-discriminatory internet.
A group of activists staged a protest at Amazon Web Services’s (AWS) summit Tuesday in an attempt to bring attention to the company’s work with immigration agencies and police departments. The collection of roughly a dozen protesters from MediaJustice, the Muslim Counterpublics Lab and For Us Not Amazon gathered in front of the Walter E. …
Despite their pledge to keep America connected during a global pandemic, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) chose increased profit instead, leaving the digital divide wider than ever. MediaJustice Executive Director Steven Renderos explains in the Arizona Mirror why Biden’s latest broadband plan and the new Affordable Connectivity Program won’t be enough to ensure an internet connection …
MediaJustice Demands Biden Pressure Senate Leadership to Confirm FCC Nominee Gigi Sohn to Bring More Families Online Today, President Biden welcomed companies, including AT&T, Verizon and Comcast, to the White House to announce that the Biden-Harris Administration secured commitments from 20 leading internet providers to either increase speeds or cut prices, making sure they all offer …
As the season cools and the leaves fall, so do relationships that no longer serve us. Activists across the country are cutting ties from law enforcement through defund the police campaigns. But behind the scenes, however, Amazon is using private contracts to tie cities in an ever expanding spy network controlled by the police. It …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Giselle Barry (Markey) 202-224-2742 Martina McLennan/Ray Zaccaro (Merkley) 202-224-3753 Chris Evans (Jayapal) 206-795-5504 Ricardo Sanchez (Pressley) 202-836-0022 Senators Markey and Merkley, and Reps. Jayapal, Pressley to Introduce Legislation to Ban Government Use of Facial Recognition, Other Biometric Technology Legislation stops federal entities’ use of facial recognition tools and effectively strips federal …
This week, IBM, Amazon, and Microsoft pledged to restrict or eliminate law enforcement’s access to facial recognition technology. However, none of the companies disclosed how many police departments used their facial recognition technology — or might be using it currently. “We have no doubt that Amazon’s announcement is no more than a political stunt meant to …