Caitlin L Chandler
@CaitLChandler
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Writer & journalist. Longform in @harpers, @nybooks @washingtonpost & elsewhere [email protected]
Berlin
Joined March 2011
For @nybooks and with @pulitzercenter support, I wrote about the extraordinary case of Sajjad Mohammedhasan, who sought asylum and received a year in Lithuania’s border prisons.
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RT @nybooks: “The Darfur genocide is generally dated from 2003 to 2005, but war never really stopped. For over two decades the Janjaweed an…
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RT @JacobKushner: “Now I’m in the greatest country in the world,” Sajjad said, dazed from not sleeping. The policeman laughed. At the Gates…
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RT @ValeriaLuiselli: A parable: the early Romans called the Mediterranean the Mare Magum, or Great Sea. Later, as Rome spread, they called…
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RT @StatewatchEU: 🚨 NEW: Frontex, "voluntary" deportations, & anti-solidarity Special report by @HopeAmeliee & @AnasAmbri reveals how EU-…
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RT @LHreports: Opaque surveillance tools are being sold to governments with the promise they can predict risky travellers and ‘export borde…
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With immense thanks to @AndrewCouts & the whole team at Wired & @LHreports especially @cr0ft0n & @daniel_howden
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These companies use algorithms on traveler data to issue risk scores for passengers. The algorithms which make these determinations are “black boxes", with one algorithm consisting of 100-150 variables. Travelers have no way of knowing they are tagged or profiled.
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For @WIRED & @LHreports, I looked inside the European companies (and one UN agency) selling governments around the world software that claims to predict "risky" travelers using AI:
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RT @WIRED: Behind the scenes, companies and governments are feeding a trove of data about international travelers into opaque AI tools that…
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RT @nybooks: Caitlin L. Chandler (@CaitLChandler) recounts the extraordinary story of an Iraqi refugee who was imprisoned and tortured for…
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RT @Longreads: “He was imprisoned there at least a few hours, possibly longer. It occurred to him that he had traveled a long way to die.”…
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RT @nybooks: Caitlin L. Chandler (@CaitLChandler) recounts the extraordinary story of an Iraqi refugee who was imprisoned and tortured for…
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RT @nybooks: “They had eaten rotten fruit, seen people tasered and beaten by guards, felt hatred intimately. In Germany they were prescribe…
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RT @nybooks: Caitlin L. Chandler (@CaitLChandler) recounts an Iraqi asylum seeker’s harrowing ordeal in Lithuania’s border detention center…
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With gratitude to the whole team at NYRB - the exceptional editors Ratik Asokan & @elusivecorporal, @wtavlin, Chandler Fritz, Willa Glickman - & especially Sajjad.
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