Digital Ethics

1/ If you care about surveillance, you really should listen to @geoffreyfowler on @nprfreshair discuss what he’s learned from investigating the secret life of data. https://t.co/5Pb7a0hibz Here’s why. Spoilers. Surveillance sounds scary, very Big Brother. But many surveillance— Evan Selinger (@EvanSelinger) August 2, 2019

The Google machine learning company trumpeted its success in predicting a deadly kidney condition, but its results raise questions around…

Once, it was easy to be obscure. Technology has ended that.

Rohit Chopra got off on the wrong foot less than two weeks into his new job last year at the Federal Trade Commission. That was when he fired off a memo to the entire agency, including his four fellow FTC commissioners, titled “Repeat Offenders.”The memo suggested the agency was at risk of ...

Amazon is not following Apple and Google in suspending practice altogether

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is circulating new rules that would make it nearly impossible for banks – or landlords or homeowners insurance companies – to be sued when their algorithms result in people of color being disproportionately denied housing. The rule would overturn 50 years of precedent, upheld by the Supreme […]

We are creating architects who have never heard of building codes, drivers who have never heard of the Highway Code, and doctors who have never heard of the Hippocratic oath.

Google, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft are all central players in “surveillance capitalism” and prey on our data.

Documents obtained by Motherboard show that Ring uses partnership and promotional agreements in order to contractually obligate public officials to promote its products.

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Siri grading suspended globally.

You're in a codependent relationship with technology. Here's how to bring the spark back.

Nope, not creepy at all.

In April, two of the organizers of the Google Walkout, Meredith Whittaker and Claire Stapleton, came forward with the stories of the…

Give the camera someone else’s face — or obscure your own. Strive for asymmetry. Make your head unheadlike.

Many popular wearable devices rely on technology that could be less reliable for consumers who have darker skin, experts told STAT.

Autonomous weapons, capable of acting without human oversight, are closer than we think, Dr. Walsh believes, and must be banned.

Taking aim at "features that are designed to be addictive."

When a gunman opened fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California, on Sunday evening, killing at least three people, including a 6-year-old boy, and wounding 12 others, Dilbert creator Scott Adams apparently saw a juicy marketing opportunity for his blockchain app.

A hearing on Wednesday suggested that opposition to facial recognition technology could be the rare issue progressives and conversatives in Congress. Several members voiced worries about the technology being used here as it is currently is in China, where it contributes to the surveillance state’s systems of public monitoring and social control.

The rare issue that unites left and right

Emotion recognition is a $20 billion industry, but a new study says the most popular method is deeply flawed.

You might know that Apple screens some of Siri's recordings to improve the assistant's accuracy, but recordings can be surprisingly long and numerous.

When I joined the artificial intelligence company Clarifai in early 2017, you could practically taste the promise in the air. My colleagues were brilliant, dedicated, and committed to making the world a better place.We founded Clarifai 4 Good where we helped students and charities, and we donated our software to researchers around the world whose projects had a socially beneficial goal. We were determined to be the one AI company that took our social responsibility seriously.I never could have predicted that two years later, I would have to quit this job on moral grounds. And I certainly ne...

A study called “Robots and Racism,” the human tendency to stereotype racial bias is expanding into the world of robotics.

Members of the progressive "Squad" join New York's Yvette Clarke to block surveillance techniques they say infringe rights and may misidentify people of color.

Australia said it would establish the world's first dedicated office to police Facebook Inc and Google as part of reforms designed to rein in the U.S. technology giants, potentially setting a pre...

Opinion: Researchers used Google's AI tool to rank the harmfulness of tweets by white nationalists and drag queens. The results were discouraging.