S5:E8 - WhatsApp: The Not-So-Private Privacy App, Prohibitory Automated Resume Filters, and Some Updates About Apple

In this episode, we have updates about more Apple App Store drama, and Apple’s planned surveillance features to battle child sexual abuse material. Then we speak with Lydia X. Z. Brown, attorney, disability justice activist and policy counsel for the Center for Democracy and Technology, about a study that found that automated resume filter tools exclude millions from jobs, including those with disabilities. And then we speak with Craig Silverman, reporter at Propublica, about an investigative piece he co-authored that details how Facebook undermines its privacy promises on WhatsApp.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• Japan Fair Trade Commission closes App Store investigation
• Apple: Expanded Protections for Children
• Hidden Workers: Untapped Talent
• How Opaque Personality Tests Can Stop Disabled People from Getting Hired
• Report – Algorithm-driven Hiring Tools: Innovative Recruitment or Expedited Disability Discrimination?
• How Facebook Undermines Privacy Protections for Its 2 Billion WhatsApp Users

Lydia X. Z. Brown

Lydia X. Z. Brown is an advocate, organizer, strategist, educator, writer, and attorney working for disability justice and liberation. For over a decade, their work has focused on building solidarity-based communities and addressing the root causes of interpersonal and state violence targeting disabled people, especially those at the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, and violence.

Craig Silverman

Craig Silverman was the founding editor of BuzzFeed Canada and then became the media editor of BuzzFeed News, where he pioneered coverage of disinformation and online manipulation. He joined ProPublica as a reporter in May 2021 to continue his investigative work.