Digital Ethics

Researchers watch publishers watching you, ignore privacy settings, run over mere HTTP

"The Influential Mind" introduces less-than-intuitive tactics for changing beliefs and behaviors.

A data collection service called SafeGraph collected 17 trillion location markers for 10 million smartphones during the holiday last year.

The French are putting legal limits on being “on.”

It's Your World. Sexual Violence Doesn't Belong in It.

What is the role of a designer?

Aims to be the biggest checklist of inclusive design considerations ever - Heydon/inclusive-design-checklist

What you think you believe and what your unconscious associations reveal about your beliefs are often very different.

Challenge implicit biases by identifying your own, teaching colleagues about them, observing gap-closing teachers, stopping "tone policing," and tuning into such biases at your school.

Nir’s Note: This guest post is by Francesca Gino, an associate professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the…

The O’Reilly Radar Podcast: AI on the hype curve, imagining nurturing technology, and gaps in the AI conversation.

Dan Turner explores the gray areas of user expectations, honest interfaces, and making design decisions with integrity.

We're building an artificial intelligence-powered dystopia, one click at a time, says techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci. In an eye-opening talk, she details how the same algorithms companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon use to get you to click on ads are also used to organize your access to political and social information. And the machines aren't even the real threat. What we need to understand is how the powerful might use AI to control us -- and what we can do in response.

The Smile Mirror features a built-in camera and facial recognition technology that only shows your reflection if you smile.

Using your UX Super Powers for Good or Evil - Theo Mandel, PhD, UXPA 2015 Conference. Updated presentation on User Experience Design - from Golden Rules and Pa…

Silicon Valley, you used to be the envy of the world. Over the last decade I’ve seen countless cities try to become you. In case you haven’t noticed, though, you’ve changed from hero to villain. You're too expensive and exclusive for the rest of the world. You've moved from icon to joke -- the show that bears your name is a cringe-worthy, true-to-life satire.

His distinction captures a remarkable fact for those of us who keep our email tabs open all day: email allows anyone to interrupt you, at any time, for any reason. Imagine describing the analogous…

Free enterprise capitalism is the most powerful system for social cooperation and human progress ever conceived. It is one of the most…

Here's all 188 cognitive biases in existence, grouped by how they impact our thoughts and actions. We also give some specific cognitive bias examples.

When Amsterdam removed signals from a busy junction, it made journeys faster and interactions more pleasant. Now the approach is being copied across the city

The planned hearing comes as the Senate Intelligence Committee has increased its scrutiny of social media and search sites, following Facebook's disclosure that a Russian troll farm purchased $100,000

The proliferation of digital disinformation is

The same company that gives you birthday reminders also helped ensure the integrity of the German elections.

The many ways design decisions treat people unequally