Digital Ethics

The fitness tracking app Strava released a heat map last fall showing jogging routes logged by its users around the world. But in recent days, independent military experts have noticed the map discloses the locations of one normally secretive set of fitness buffs: military personnel from the U.S. and other Western nations, deployed at sensitive … Continue reading “A popular jogging app is leaking military secrets”

To wean users off their devices, UX designers can deploy the very tricks that made their products so addictive in the first place, writes Bruce Nussbaum.

Developers of platforms such as Facebook have admitted that they were designed to be addictive. Should we be following the executives’ example and going cold turkey – and is it even possible for mere mortals?

Salesforce chief Marc Benioff is latest tech insider to raise alarm over social media’s effect on society with comments at Davos

Design influences all of us in profound and often unnoticeable ways. From the subtle shifts in our society to the overt impacts that…

The hashtag #AirbnbWhileBlack was an eye-opener regarding the lodging site and its black customers. Black users of the popular site aired their grievances about being denied stays by hosts because of their race. Although the company assured the public that racism would not be tolerated, people weren’t buying it. But two companies that started out with similar names have surfaced to give black travelers and hosts more options.

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What are tech ethics? What is good tech? Why are people talking about this now? How can I get involved? The founding principles Earlier this year various events conspired which compelled the team b…

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Farai Madzima, UX Lead at Shopify, discusses cultural bias. He delves into what it is and explores why people from certain parts of the world are more likely...

The infamous “trolley problem” was put to millions of people in a global study, revealing how much ethics diverge across cultures

Responses from more than two million people to an internet-based survey of attitudes towards moral dilemmas that might be faced by autonomous vehicles shed light on similarities and variations in ethical preferences among different populations.

Responses vary around the world when you ask the public who an out-of-control self-driving car should hit

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Google is considering pulling its Google News service from Europe as regulators work toward a controversial copyright law.

Now that algorithms are everywhere, helping us to both run and make sense of the world, a strange question has emerged among artificial intelligence researchers: When is it ok to predict the future…

Algorithms were supposed to free us from our unconscious mistakes. But now there’s a new set of problems to solve.

Cindy Cohn, the executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Claire Boyle, the managing editor of McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, talk with Recode’s Kara Swisher about a special nonfiction issue the two organizations teamed up to produce, “The End of Trust.”In this episode: Why the EFF and McSweeney’s decided to work together; have consumers given up on having privacy?; why “Facebook doesn’t really have users or customers, they have hostages”; the current copyright battles in Europe; why the ability of AI to play chess says little about the usefulness of AI in general; surve...

If your algorithms are smart enough to realize that I was pregnant, or that I’ve given birth, then surely they can be smart enough to realize that my baby died, and advertise to me accordingly — or maybe, just maybe, not at all.

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