Artificial intelligence offers great opportunities – but it can also do great harm. @aushumanrights’s new Human Rights and Technology Final Report recommends safeguards to protect the community as @esantow explains. Read the report at https://t.co/zRYY2XHElR. pic.twitter.com/jSvdB4K9yZ— Australian Human Rights Commission (@AusHumanRights) May 27, 2021

The case could have broad ramifications for internet researchers and archivists.

The company said it would pay delivery drivers up to $25 hourly plus tips, but the FTC had alleged it kept a third of tips.

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Privacy experts worry the convenient feature will open the door to surveillance, data tracking and Apple's turning interactions involving state-issued IDs into a new revenue stream.

As companies increasingly apply artificial intelligence, they must address concerns about trust. Here are 10 practical interventions companies can employ.

Developers deal with technical debt every day, and they know how to prevent and manage it better than anyone else. Here’s just some of what they had to say.

Imperfect AI systems can make imperfect decisions at massive scale.

A set of 41 questions drafted with a view to helping us draw out the moral or ethical implications of our tools.

The fourth of the #ShareTheMicNow episodes was created by Antionette Carroll in conversation with David Clifford the founder of Design School X and Liberatory Design, and Timothy Bardlavens co-founder of &Design and Product Design Manager at Facebook discussing Dismantling White Supremacy in Design.

Amazon’s Alexa is causing girls with the same name the butt of teasing, jokes, even sexual harassment. Parents have written to Amazon, set up social action sites, changed their children's’ schools and even their names.

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MiDAS, now facing record claim numbers, is intentionally programmed "to make it difficult to get benefits," said attorney Anthony Paris.

The smartphone app Citizen describes itself in simple terms: a safety network that sends alerts about nearby incidents including crime.

"It’s fucking horrendous, honestly. [You're crossing] multiple lanes, busy traffic."

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Whistleblowers say they were forced out after flagging problems with e-commerce giant’s data security and compliance.

Critics raise transparency fears over plan to turn all smart home devices into ‘mesh network’

UC Browser, a popular web browser developed by Alibaba subsidiary UCWeb, was found to be tracking user habits on both iOS and Android, and sending the data back to company servers.

Drivers say the companies should just pay better

Amazon's experimental wireless mesh networking turns users into guinea pigs.

WhatsApp is no longer going to limit the accounts of users who do not accept the updated privacy policy, with the Facebook-owned iOS app now saying it wont be harming anyone's usage of the service for the moment.

Google misled phone makers into hiding privacy settings users liked in order to collect more location data, according to newly unredacted documents.

Salesforce has established frameworks and governance structures for ethical use of AI.

Companies offering proctoring tools that monitor students as they take online exams are now being watched themselves—by Democratic senators. Led by ...

In the pandemic-era scramble of digital education delivery, the line between public and private has been unduly blurred. Remote learning has brought one particular learning tool — remote invigilance, or more colloquially “online proctoring” — to the fore.

Despite students’ complaints and the coming return to in-person learning, Proctorio and its rivals are betting on a lucrative future.

The legal identity of on-demand platform workers has become a central site of conflict between labor and industry. Amidst growing economic inequality, labor rep

The firm claims to have over 3 billion faces in its database, many controversially acquired from public web sources and social media.

Just 6% of respondents said they ensure AI is used ethically and responsibly by making development teams diverse.