- Craven Tigers and Screeching Canaries: How the DHS Uses Bad Data to Fuel DeportationsThis May, the Georgetown Law Center on Privacy and Technology released an updated version of an already alarming evaluation of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s handling … Read more
- The immigrant physicians sustaining U.S. healthcareThe intersection of healthcare and immigration policy is found in the halls of hospitals and clinics across America, where increasing numbers of International Medical Graduates (IMGs) are … Read more
- America’s vaccination against equity, and its adverse effectsThe language used to justify policy is…fraught. Every new program is a triumph, as is every cut to an existing one. Every new rule is a sea … Read more
- Mind the strings: Grok 3 and biased AI puppeteersGenerative AI isn’t supposed to have opinions. Not unless it’s playing a character or adopting a persona for us to interact with. It certainly shouldn’t have political … Read more
- No border wands, just brutality: what the death of the CBP One app portendsIt’s infuriating that I have to defend this profoundly unjust yet unfairly maligned, rights-violating, prison gate-keeping, Hollerith-ass, bureaucratic government-enforced insult to human dignity in app form, but … Read more
- Deux ex Smartphone: Healthcare Access Isn’t Going to Democratize ItselfOne of my first-year classes in college was History of Theater, in which I learned how the Greeks built amphitheaters into hillsides, carving out a semicircle of … Read more
- Healthcare tech’s turf war hurts patients- here’s how to protect yourselfQuick recap In my last post (Down the patient portal: the world of healthcare tech serving you data about you) I introduced the back end of patient … Read more
- Down the patient portal: the world of healthcare tech serving you data about youThe subject of patient engagement tools, especially patient portals, took up permanent residence in my head last January when my mother, a few months away from achieving … Read more
- Sora and the painbotSora is a video generation model that translates text to video, a product of OpenAI released earlier this month, and a painbot is a concept I hatched … Read more
- I (don’t) feel your pain: A conversation with ChatGPT about what “empathic AI” in healthcare really meansThis is an essay in two parts: First, a somewhat rambling conversation that I had with ChatGPT about its own limitations in healthcare, and the limitations of … Read more
- Letter to the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee regarding CBP OneDear Committee Members, specifically Chairman Green, I would like to know why, in numerous published statements, Chairman Green has claimed that Anna Giaritelli published a “groundbreaking scoop … Read more
- AI Facial Recognition Technology in CBP One™My review of the mobile app, CBP One™: The Border in Your Pocket, considered factors in the development of CBP One’s facial recognition engine, the Traveler Verification … Read more
- CBP One™: The Border in Your PocketIn August of 2018, in light of the growing number of apps under Customs and Border Protection, the agency’s Office of Field Operations (OFO) announced that it … Read more