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

Fascinating to read the 1995 "Netiquette Guidelines" (RFC 1855). It was written when the Internet began to be mainstream, at a time where IRC channels, newsgroups and so on where the Facebook and Twitter of their times. Wise words.https://t.co/stOD6Hxl4E pic.twitter.com/Vd8GKw9DKF— Guillaume Champeau (@gchampeau) August 3, 2018

When my wife was struck by mysterious, debilitating symptoms, our trip to the ER revealed the sexism inherent in emergency treatment.

What should Facebook do?@alexstamos nails it. pic.twitter.com/lq2UqALf7C— Aviv Ovadya (@metaviv) July 25, 2018

I keep thinking things like this - & also how, when Tylenol was tampered with & 7 people were poisoned, they recalled it all, shut the line down until they’d figured out how to do better https://t.co/FPLMt3uQQg— Cyd Harrell (@cydharrell) July 25, 2018

Imagine a technology that is potently, uniquely dangerous — something so inherently toxic that it deserves to be completely rejected, banned, and stigmatized. Something so pernicious that regulation…

Artificial intelligence is powering the fourth industrial revolution and has been called the "new electricity." The global economic impact of AI applications...

We just finished a primary election in California, and every day in the past month I’ve come home to 20 or more pieces of mail, almost…

Having more sales and conversions does NOT mean you have more happy customers. e-commerce teams should have this repeated to them at least once a month just to be sure it sunk in. Figure out how you can best measure the customer's actual experience.— Geoff Wilson (@geoffwilsonUX) June 6, 2018

Norman is an artificial intelligence which sees death and destruction in everything.

Researchers can now send secret audio instructions undetectable to the human ear to Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant.

Many have argued that the use of dark patterns and aggressive persuasion in web design is unethical. But what about from a purely business perspective?

TeenSafe, a service used by parents to monitor the online behaviors and phone activity of their children, allowed tens of thousands of accounts to leak online after failing to properly secure their servers.

For the past two years, food campaigners have watched in alarm as the Aadhaar I.D. system has taken hold in India’s bureaucracy.

The thing we do well in Silicon Valley is ignore the very Real problems of the world so we can destroy poor people’s livelihoods instead. https://t.co/Jt0WGVPIrU— Alan Cooper (@MrAlanCooper) September 13, 2017

the problem with tolerating jerks in your community, friend group, or employees is that all of the nice people quietly drift away— Aeva (𝘢𝘴𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦!) (@ladyaeva) August 6, 2017

Green patterns are UX choices that create great user experiences for people while also providing sustainable options for the planet.

Last week, Facebook said it found flaws in the metrics it reported to advertiser...