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Two Users of Muslim Pro Threaten Legal Action Over Leaked Location Data

We are supporting two users of popular prayer app Muslim Pro after their location data is believed to have been sold without their consent to the US military.

Open letter from content moderators re: pandemic

Full text of the letter from 200 Facebook content moderators.

We’ve made some good progress on challenging unfair government algorithms – but there’s a massive amount more to do

We’ve taken down two unjust and discriminatory algorithms so far. We’re just getting started.

YouTube is breaking the law by harvesting children’s data for targeted advertising – our work to stop them!

YouTube, and its parent company Google, know that millions of children watch YouTube. They’re making money from unlawfully collecting data about children and targeting them with ads that aren’t apporpriate for them.

We put a stop to the A Level grading algorithm!

The government has peformed a screeching U-turn on Ofqual’s unfair system.

Home Office says it will abandon its racist visa algorithm – after we sued them

This is the first successful judicial review of a UK government algorithmic decision-making system.

Why I’m so keen to talk to Facebook content moderators

Cori explains why Foxglove is fighting for the rights of Big Tech’s real, but often invisible, workforce.

Update: papers filed for judicial review of the Home Office’s visa algorithm

Foxglove is supporting the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) to challenge the Home Office’s use of a secret algorithm that effectively gives “Speedy Boarding” for a visa to white people.