In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we’re talking about Ethical Design. What does it mean for a design to be ethical, and how do we make improvements in our own projects? Drew McLellan speaks to Trine Falbe and Martin Michael Frederiksen to find out.

Report warns that technology, uptake of which has largely been driven by cuts, could lead to discrimination

amazon might be at risk of supporting a 'dystopian future' where doorbell cameras and delivery drones create surveillance networks across entire neighborhoods.

Human centred design is anthropocentric design. By focusing on humans only, we frame out the rest of the living planet, and ignore its ongoing destruction.

After the ACLU said a community college in Michigan was violating its students’ First Amendment rights, the school partially relented.

Some of its employees tried to stop their company from doing work they saw as unethical. It blew up in their faces.

When I'm bored I go around putting these stickers on paper towel dispensers pic.twitter.com/WUwHDPm1nS— Sofia Paredes (@SofiaParedes79) November 4, 2019

Lydell Grant was supposed to be in prison for murder. But an emerging form of DNA technology, which has also come under scrutiny, is helping to free him in an unprecedented case.

In a follow up to PI's initial research on sharing of personal data by mental health websites, a second analysis illustrates how change is possible and yet most webpages analysed still share your data with third-parties for marketing purposes.

Given how front and center design is these days, I am still shocked that there is no “code of conduct” or guide to ethical design principles. I had my students write the Designers “Hippocratic Oath” and am sort of in love with what they came up with! pic.twitter.com/cc6wpIgq5d— Minnie Bredouw (@mbredouw) February 4, 2020

The app also collects a host of personal information, including user images, location, and browsing data. It’s then able to share this information with third-party websites and services.

Secondaries in England testing lightweight versions of technology worn by police

Government told to halt use of AI to detect fraud in decision hailed by privacy campaigners

Teenagers are using group accounts to flood Instagram with random user data that can't be tied to a single person.

Facial recognition has come under massive scrutiny, not least since its live variant has come to attention. Approaches to using it are…

How important is the user context when designing amazing products?

To doctors opening patients’ electronic records across the U.S., the alert would have looked innocuous enough.

On the plus side I can now save these for posterity pic.twitter.com/tEN1krfjMt— bruise almighty (@kmlefranc) February 1, 2020

The technology uses sensors inside classrooms and a cellphone app developed by a former Mizzou basketball coach.

At the start of a class, roll calls are usually taken to track who is in attendance at the class. This is important as a student that frequently...

Smartphones leave a trail that anyone — and any foreign government — could follow.

We followed every move of people in one city. Then we went to tell them.

Do customers realise that genetic genealogy companies profit by amassing huge biological datasets, asks geneticist and author Adam Rutherford

Geneticist and author Adam Rutherford examines the evidence

I'm really sorry to p1ss on anyone's chips but DNA kits for heritage are:- junk science- a front for massive commercial data trawling, analysis, re-use and onward sale. It's not 'harmless fun'. You can never get data back. And you just dumped your relatives in it, too. https://t.co/EH62v6u1jA— Maria Farrell (@mariafarrell) January 27, 2020

It’s simply a tool—and hardly a perfect one