Regular reminder that consumer credit scores are younger than cell phones 💗 Using FICO and mass, computerized consumer surveillance as a startpoint here. For a detailed history, read:

Columbia University Press

Creditworthy | Columbia University Press

The first consumer credit bureaus appeared in the 1870s and quickly amassed huge archives of deeply personal information. Today, the three leading ...

Unfortunately we're about to see the worst, repressive ways this legislation can be used.

WIRED

Trump Signs Controversial Law Targeting Nonconsensual Sexual Content

The Take It Down Act requires platforms to remove instances of “intimate visual depiction” within two days. Free speech advocates warn it could...

The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world of about 2 million people, many of them are mother's that are sole caretakers of children.

Scholars Strategy Network

Mothers in Prison and the Cycle of Incarceration

The US has the (dis)honor of having the highest incarceration rate in the world.