Consumer Reports’ Digital Lab does groundbreaking privacy research: they’re hiring for eight positions including technologists (“resident hacker,” “digital standard manager,” “information security researcher,” “program manager, security and testing,” and “privacy testing project leader”); journalists (“digital content manager”); policy and comms (“senior researcher, digital competition” and “associate director, strategic communications — technology and privacy”). Most of the positions are NYC or SF or DC based, several allow for remote workers. (Thanks, Ben)!)
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Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy is looking for engineering, social science, law, and policy “visitors” for interdisciplinary one-year positions
Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy is a marvellous interdisciplinary research center, and it is advertising for “visitors” for one-year stints: postdocs, policy fellows and visiting IT professors.
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When the HR department is a robotic phrenologist: “face-scanning algorithm” gains popularity as a job-applicant screener
Hirevue is an “AI” company that companies contract with to screen job applicants: it conducts an hour-long videoconference session with applicants, analyzing their facial expressions, word-choices and other factors (the company does not actually explain what these are, nor have they ever subjected their system to independent scrutiny) and makes recommendations about who should get the job.
Hospital staff hang a banner celebrating the transfer of their “mischievous tyrant” boss
When Eunice Adekemi Olamijuwon was transfered from her job as nursing leader at Wesley Guild Hospital in Osun, Nigeria, her staff celebrated by hanging a (now-viral) banner calling her a “mischievous tyrant” and accusing her of a litany of sins, from “arrogance” to “power intoxication” to “sadism” and “witch hunting.”
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EFF is hiring a community organizer!
One of the coolest initiatives of the Electronic Frontier Foundation is the Electronic Frontier Alliance, a network of autonomous community groups that work on local issues with support from each other and EFF: everything from getting facial recognition banned in their communities to forcing local police departments to seek public comment on new surveillance tech initiatives.
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Burning Man is hiring an HR coordinator
The job listing for a vacancy in Burning Man’s HR department is pretty anodyne, until you get to this: “Some of the work will be in outside weather conditions and will be exposed to fumes or airborne particles as well as possible extremes in temperature.” “Possible” is really underselling it, to be honest.
EFF is hiring a development director!
EFF has just posted a job listing for a development director, seeking someone to “take charge of EFF’s eleven-person Development Team in their efforts to raise over $13 million each year,” starting late 2019 or early 2020.
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As Uber’s stock craters amid billions in unanticipated losses, a hiring freeze on engineers
Uber — a bezzle — projected $8b in losses this year; but it lost more than $5b in a single quarter, and despite an initial stock price rise (dead cat bounce?) the company’s shares have tumbled by more than 10% since, hitting an all-time low. Engineers who were scheduled to interview at Uber have had those interviews canceled by the company’s HR department, who told them the company now has a tech-worker hiring freeze. (Image: Tarcil, CC BY-SA, modified) (via Naked Capitalism)
Vast majority of truck-driving jobs are not under threat from automation
The looming threat of mass-unemployment driven by automation has been grossly overstated: while it’s true that “truck driver” is one of the most common jobs in America, the vast majority of truck drivers are not long-haul drivers, which are the drivers at risk of having their jobs automated out of existence.
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Stop saying “robots are coming for your job”; start saying “Your boss wants to replace you with a robot”
Tech reporter and sf writer Brian Merchant (previously) calls our attention to the peculiar construction of the problem statement in articles about automation and obsolescence, in which “robots are coming to steal your job.”