Digital Ethics

Presentation from Oz-IA 2007 about ethical issues and professionalism for designers

Ching-Hung Woo looks at the many facets of Albert Einstein’s approach to ethics.

A selection of quotes on ethics, morality, humanity and universal causation from Albert Einstein.

One way to improve democracy is for more people to appreciate its complex technological underpinnings.

Jared M. Spool explains design as "the rendering of intent." Simply put, this is when the designer imagines an outcome and puts forth activities to make that outcome real.

“If you have a disability, what’s the hardest thing about browsing the web?” The answers to Safia Abdalla’s tweet are truly eye-opening and shows us what web accessibility should really be about. Photo: Francis Clarke for Wikimedia The tweet that started it all i'm curious to know: if you have a disability, what's the hardest […]

Our Free Ethics Courses collection features college and university level courses available for free online on audio & video.

Yesterday Digiday published The GDPR will help or hurt publishers, depending on who you ask, by Ross Benes (@RossBenes). I was one of the…

What can we do to prepare? We need to set up pre-emptive standards, think tanks, regulations, and private-public partnerships.

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

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.

newsletter #32 | 16-Jan-2018

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?

Progressive disclosure is a great interaction design technique. With progressive disclosure, you provide the user with the amount of…

The Economist offers authoritative insight and opinion on international news, politics, business, finance, science, technology and the connections between them.

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

Ethics involves the application of a moral code to the practice of medicine. Ideals and the Hippocratic Oath have been covered in another article but it...

Researchers at AI Now say algorithms increasingly used by government can be opaque and discriminatory.

As artificial intelligence reshapes law enforcement, healthcare, education and more, tech firms need to widen their data lens.

By: Benjamin Kumpf, Innovation Policy Specialist, UNDP

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

Yesterday, I talked about design as being “empathy in action”. I ended the post by questioning how Learning Health Systems can make sure empathy with their users – patients and pr…

Neil Pawley offers a different perspective on Steve Krug's industry-defining Don't Make Me Think.

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…

Are you rushing from field work to findings?

A study shows that suicide rates among teenagers have risen along with their ownership of smartphones and use of social media, suggesting a disturbing link between technology and teen self-harm.

There are things you want to do. There are things you need to do. Sometimes these are the same. This post is how to handle life when they aren't. The sensation of thinking of a task can be pleasant or painful. This is because your brain is always predicting how rewarding any future scenario will