Digital Ethics

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(updated on 15.11.2017: edited and slightly re-structured for clarity; corrected spelling and grammar.) Much of the academic and professional discourse within the design disciplines over the last century has been bereft of a critical reflection on the politics of design practice, and on the politics of the artifacts, systems and practices that designerly activity produces.…

Phones can now tell who is carrying them from their users’ gaits

Pedro Domingos has forgotten more about AI than Tallinn and his muse have ever known. And he’s sufficiently worried about The now and near-term. Anyone who distracts with super intelligence concerns is very likely is profiting from dumb AI. https://t.co/GbkH1G7m5I pic.twitter.com/SVfyeWgpyP— daniel harvey (@dancharvey) May 27, 2019

I’m at C2 in Montreal and we’ve all been giving these creepy badges that track you, and who you meet. There’s screens ranking attendees for engagement pic.twitter.com/q8yDWJ8Zgd— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan) May 24, 2019

How voice assistants, which are made to sound female by default, respond to sexual harassment pic.twitter.com/ZfQpEg20PK— Charlotte Jee (@charlottejee) May 22, 2019

“The technology could help the company gain insights for potential health products or be used to better target advertising or product recommendations.” Take a second and look at the diagram. WTF. 🤬 https://t.co/7KiyvKsx3B— One Ring (doorbell) to surveil them all... (@hypervisible) May 23, 2019

Black girls don’t misbehave more, experts say, yet they often receive more severe penalties for the same behavior as white peers.

Google runs a service called Duplex that can call a restaurant and make reservations on its own, mimicking the voice of a human. But @bxchen and I tracked it down in the wild and found that some of the calls are made by actual humans: https://t.co/qa17tI5wCY— Cade Metz (@CadeMetz) May 22, 2019

Romy Harwood says a former relationship was like having a bodyguard 24-7.

Smart speakers. Chat bots. Voice-operated gadgets. Gender infuses our artificially intelligent technologies. Is that problematic?

A tricky dark pattern on @PushDoctor If you’re given a prescription you’re taken to a checkout. One of the steps is an upsell that has no visible opt out. You have to swipe right - it’s a carousel). Not cool. Taking advantage of vulnerable, unwell people. pic.twitter.com/80r4817G2X— Harry Brignull (@harrybr) May 19, 2019

Chinese phone cradle for boosting your phone's daily step count. Some insurance companies in China allow people who consistently reach a certain daily step count to get discounted health insurance premiums. pic.twitter.com/pJFBSYqdlb— Matthew Brennan (@mbrennanchina) May 14, 2019

Technology has grown so phone-centric that two-factor authentication is beginning to further marginalize folks.A community member of mine lost access to their @Microsoft account due to a SMS-only verification challenge. They, like others, don’t own a mobile phone. #design— Cheryl Platz (@muppetaphrodite) May 11, 2019

The company’s new “spaceship” headquarters shows how its beauty has always been skin deep.

Design decisions across our projects can mean the difference between affirmation and invalidation—and sometimes safety and danger. Erin White explores the repercussions for trans, non-binary, and g…

Today in “Manipulated by Brands,” the loading state of Facebook memories has a fake screen crack to steal your attention just long enough to keep you from tapping out before the memories load. pic.twitter.com/hDmNSQtAWb— john (@H4N4W4LT) May 10, 2019

The number of people 60 and over is growing. So airports and hotels are beginning to look at design changes to help them.

Sometimes it takes a village to raise a child - or in the case of these students - a school. When Akbar Cook – a vice principal for the West Side High School in Newark, New Jersey - started at his job he knew he was finally in a position to make a real change in his students’ lives, and he did. But probably no one, including Mr.

Maybe I should add the obvious: I think the cookie popup solution is an anti-pattern to begin with. I instinctively agree to everything, which makes it easier for services collect more data now than before. It's a failed attempt at solving the problem.— Josef Engelfrost (@engelfrost) May 8, 2019

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Because you have watched Jurassic Park, you should now watch these other movies that have nothing in common with it. I mean Jurassic Park Green Lantern??!? pic.twitter.com/I7pRGGEF4V— Thomas Baekdal (@baekdal) May 2, 2019

Remember all those articles from December about how Google Translate had addressed gender bias? I tried it again today, and it's the same "He is a doctor; She is a nurse" results that have been given for years. pic.twitter.com/xXe9pkrutj— Rachel Thomas (@math_rachel) April 30, 2019

So YouTube's algorithm massively recommends Russia's take on the investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election.3/ pic.twitter.com/2GwE809tWx— Guillaume Chaslot (@gchaslot) April 26, 2019

You won't believe these five reasons why speculative design can't save the world I gave this talk back at the Speculative Futures meet-up ...

Okay, Google Maps has got to stop with the number of notification channels it has. This is downright absurd. Nobody will ever take the time required to actually configure this to work the way they want/need. Insanely bad UX. pic.twitter.com/7aYxojYYpl— Andrew Martonik (@andrewmartonik) April 19, 2019

News that the company had insecurely stored passwords came on the same day as the release of Robert Mueller’s long-awaited report

Med 50 miljarder uppkopplade saker är det viktigt att vi inte glömmer människorna. Alla måste utrustas med rätt kunskap för att kunna dra sitt strå till säkerhetsstacken. Det menar krominologen och säkerhetsexperten Giuseppe Mastromattei.

If I see you tap the orange or red face in my local lidl, just know that I triple tap smiley green to cancel you out pic.twitter.com/oNHVxxYzia— Mike Mc Loughlin (@zuroph) April 17, 2019