Digital Ethics

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If you've upgraded your iPhone to iOS 14 already, you may have noticed a little green dot at the top of your screen when using certain apps. It's a new

Laurence Berland and Kathryn Spiers were fired in the wake of employee organizing efforts. Now, the NLRB says the terminations violated labor law.

Transformative and procedural justice are the foundation of Christine Su's vision for a safer site.

If the only answer to abusive people is successfully persuading them not to be abusive...Then the abuse becomes everyone else’s fault, for not catering to the abuser sufficiently enough to persuade him.Which is exactly the way an abusive person wants you to think.So, don’t.— A.R. Moxon (@JuliusGoat) December 5, 2020

The Shitty Tech Adoption Curve describes the process by which oppressive technology is normalized and distributed through all levels of society. The more privilege someone has, the harder it is to coerce them to use dehumanizing tech, so it starts with marginalized people.1/ pic.twitter.com/9saW0H95OI— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) November 25, 2020

The issue of machine learning systems perpetuating bias, not reducing it, remains as alive as ever.

E-waste is a global concern, and is quickly becoming a crisis of its own, the researchers state. In fact, more than 53 million metric tons of e-waste was produced in 2019.

Deepfake technology can make it seem like people are saying and doing things they aren't. Can it be used for good? Deep Reckonings, a series created by artist Stephanie Lepp, imagines controversial public figures having reckonings using synthetic videos.

Bias, discrimination, privacy violations, lack of accountability — AI entails a lot of ethical problems. Hyping AI creates additional…

The system works only if a lot of people buy into it, but people will buy into it only if they know it works.

Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn’t. This is just the beginning.

As the recent election campaign in Tanzania reached a climax, opposition supporters began to notice something strange.

Foxglove is supporting social media content moderators in their fights for fair treatment from the platforms they work for, and for safe working conditions during the pandemic. Here is the full text of an open letter which over 200 Facebook content moderators from across the world have just addres

Frank Pasquale, an expert in the emergent field of A.I. law, argues it’s high time to update Asimov’s three laws of robotics

Auto-grading systems adopted in many districts were supposed to save time by using bots to score tests. But parents and teachers say the software leads to grading errors and requires them to double-check the bots’ work.

I kid you not! They don't even pretend not to do phrenology anymore (ht @vinayprabhu) pic.twitter.com/zSmZZKDt5M— Abeba Birhane (@Abebab) November 8, 2020

When you get in your car in the morning, you might expect it to be the car that you left the night before.Not any more. James May, the television presenter, and Grant Shapps, the transport secretary

The rise of cloud computing and AI have popularised face recognition technology globally, but at what cost?

Amazon today announced a set of new features aimed at making its Alexa devices more useful to aging adults. With the launch of “Care Hub,” an added option in the Alexa mobile app, family members can keep an eye on older parents and loved ones, with their permission, in order to receive general information about […]

What we found shows the technology’s promise — and perils.

Buying access to a government's facial recognition camera system to track whoever you want for $200. Totally wild. https://t.co/dBhdG7IHGa pic.twitter.com/dnN7SrLKE9— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) November 11, 2020

‘This is the future I hope we will help bring about’

Next time you're stuck in traffic because of roadworks and your frustration starts to bubble, change your perspective:Those roadworks could save someone's life – that's worth the wait. https://t.co/4p0DZN0KiW— The Correspondent (@The_Corres) November 10, 2020

While Prop 24 will be active only in California, it will effectively apply to all of the US because of the state's huge influence on the tech industry.

Walk like you're angry, and the emotionally intelligent machine will give you more room, leaving your personal bubble intact.

The metric, which assesses the potential for danger based on keywords, rose to 580 from 400 this week — a 45% increase.

We need public spaces, built in the spirit of Walt Whitman, that allow us to gather, communicate, and share in something bigger than ourselves.

This is not a drill. Red alert: The police surveillance center in Jackson, Mississippi, will be conducting a 45-day pilot program to live stream the Amazon Ring cameras of participating residents.