Øredev 2019 — Resources

This post is a list of resources to accompany my talk, “Being the best or being good?” given at Øredev on 6 November 2019 in Malmö, Sweden.

Recent Headlines about Tech Complicity in Government-enabled Human Rights Violations

• GitHub will keep selling software to ICE, leaked email says
• In a victory over Amazon, Microsoft wins $10B Pentagon JEDI cloud contract

Recent Headlines about Stricter Controls Over Facebook

• We need to nationalise Google, Facebook and Amazon. Here’s why

• Regulating Facebook will be one of the greatest challenges in human history

• New legislation is putting social networks in the crosshairs

• It’s Time to Break Up Facebook

Recent Stories about Police Surveillance Using IoT Devices

• ‘TODAY’ airs segment on fake rape report foiled by Fitbit in Lancaster County

• After Fla. Woman Is Impaled by a Spear, Police Seek Clues From Amazon Alexa Recordings

• Doorbell-camera firm Ring has partnered with 400 police forces, extending surveillance concerns

• Bentonville Police Use Smart Water Meters As Evidence In Murder Investigation

Stories about Software Killing People

• Software Architecture: Therac-25 the killer radiation machine

• Uber safety driver of fatal self-driving crash was watching Hulu, not the road

Resources about Robert Moses

• The Power Broker, Robert Caro

• The Coming Ethics of the Internet of Things

• FAILURE AND RENAISSANCE