Proud to anounce: #ProjectAlias a parasite for the surveillance age that lets you be in controle of your smart home device. Check out the project at https://t.co/p3T57qp4Gc pic.twitter.com/nugeSUGWaB— Bjørn Karmann (@BjoernKarmann) January 14, 2019

That’s not a great look

Sources disclosed troubling privacy practices at a Ring office in Ukraine.

Agents of disinformation use anonymous online spaces to seed rumors and fabricated content, hoping to eventually reach professional news…

The intimate recordings paint a detailed picture of a man's life.

Back in 2015, a woman named Imy Santiago wrote an Amazon review of a novel that she had read and liked. Amazon immediately took the review down and told Santiago she had “violated its policies.” Santiago re-read her review, didn’t see anything objectionable about it, so she tried to post it again. “You’re not eligible to review this product,” an Amazon prompt informed her.

Internal documents show that the social network gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people’s data than it has disclosed.

Google knows nearly everything about you, from how you commute to your relationship status. There have never been more opportunities for marketers to exploit that data.

An open letter to @Facebook, @Twitter, @Instagram and @Experian regarding algorithms and my son's birth: pic.twitter.com/o8SuLMuLNv— Gillian Brockell (@gbrockell) December 11, 2018

A trove of internal Facebook documents was released by a British parliamentary committee as part of an investigation into misinformation and user data.

We live in a time of both extreme politics and extreme economics. The political side is familiar, but the economic side may be less so. It is represented by new concentrations of personal wealth and…

New urban design aims to influence behaviour and has been criticised as an attempt to exclude poor peopleAnti-skateboarding architecture – in pictures

As the tools for self-tracking have improved, and access to research publications and medical grade instrumentation has spread, QS…

1/ A couple of months ago, I discovered my health insurer was monitoring my sleep and using it to deny me benefits. So I told my colleague @marshall_allen…https://t.co/BYU1956k1a— Eric Umansky (@ericuman) November 21, 2018

It’s been two tumultuous years. Still, it’s highly unlikely we’ve witnessed the moment Facebook hit bottom. A new feature, spotted by some users on Monday, may offer a clue as to what that moment could look like. In this case, it’s a tool that prompts users to comment on live video using algorithmically-generated text or […]

In World War II, Britain invented the electronic computer. By the 1970s, its computing industry had collapsed—thanks to a labor shortage produced by sexism.

Amazon.com Inc's machine-learning specialists uncovered a big problem: their new recruiting engine did not like women.

Doing poor stats and presenting misleading results is not just sloppy, it's unethical. h/t @CarlMoons @deeksj pic.twitter.com/8vzu2zku2g— Cecile Janssens (@cecilejanssens) September 21, 2018

What happened when Boston Public Schools tried for equity with an algorithm.

In 1967, the newly formed National Organization for Women staged a weeklong protest of The New York Times and other newspapers. Their demonstration targeted the long-standing practice of printing classified listings in two separate columns: “Help wanted: Male” and “Help wanted: Female,” which of course resulted in the exclusion of women from high-paying jobs and industries. As a result of NOW’s advocacy campaign, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency charged with enforcing Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibiting race and sex discrimination in employment,...

This is quietly a major milestone in tech culture. Linus Torvalds, the leader behind Linux, git, and much of open source culture, reflects on how he’s been hostile to community members. I hope he follows through — that would be his biggest commit ever. https://t.co/1DzeWVRvLe pic.twitter.com/lY5AMxNuPd— Anil Dash 🥭 (@anildash) September 16, 2018

Exclusive: Use of algorithms to identify families for attention raises stereotyping and privacy fears

When people translate visual text to Braille without any thought about user centered design. https://t.co/fsKqs4F66f— Alastair Somerville (@Acuity_Design) September 10, 2018

A little question is a big deal when it comes to shaping people’s experience with your product. How do we ask people for their gender in a…

In California and beyond, lawmakers are taking action for the environment. But advocates for people with disabilities say the bans create yet another hurdle to dining in public

Well… Facebook did it again. #AlgorithmicCruelty pic.twitter.com/pwtNYt6HsI— Eric Meyer (@meyerweb) December 7, 2017

The social network apologised after it showed one user a photograph of his recently-deceased daughter in its ‘Year in Review’ feature; many others had similar complaints

Why building inclusive tech takes more than good intentions

Why #bigdata can do wrong in human centered design. The abstraction can be true but meaningless for any individual human. #data pic.twitter.com/49FRc0StII— Alastair Somerville (@Acuity_Design) August 4, 2018