Digital Ethics

We’ve got Robyn Kanner and Mike Monteiro on the show to talk about ethics in design. When and, more importantly, how should you stand up to a manager when they tell you to design something in…

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The company, whose CEO Travis Kalanick has resigned, masterminded the dark arts of manipulative UX.

New research by Global Voices tech and digital rights experts in Colombia, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Pakistan and the Philippines exposes the ups and downs of Facebook's "Free Basics" app.

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DEBATT. Allt pekade på en monumental förlust. Men på grund av en av de mest framgångsrika – och skrämmande – digitala kampanjer som världen någonsin skådat, gick ­Donald Trump segrande ur striden om presidentposten i USA, skriver ­Dora Streiffert och Preben Carlsen, Trigger.

Nudges that benefit companies and not consumers are a misguided use of a principle of behavioral economics.

New study provides insight into how we could program morality into autonomous vehicles.

In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Jonathan Shariat, senior interaction designer at Intuit and co-author of the forthcoming book "Tragic Design." We talk about his new book and survey some use cases that point a spotlight on the importance of ethical standards in design.

This week, Ian Sample explores the psychology behind ‘nudging’, its usage by governments, and some of the ethical quandaries involved

In the first of a series of blogs on design and sustainability, Chris Sherwin argues that design will be the key feature in the next wave of sustainability

But real books, records and brick and mortar stores will take us back with open arms.

Intellectual property claims keep relevant evidence out of court.

Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology

It’s 500 years since Martin Luther defied the authority of the Catholic church. It’s time for a similar revolt against the hypocrisy of the religion of technology

As a new mom, it finally dawned on me that all this technology meant to calm agitated parents actually agitates us more.

This randomized clinical trial investigates whether a system of medication reminders using financial incentives and social support delays subsequent vascular events in patients following acute myocardial infarction compared with usual care.

Fitness and health tracking devices are designed to get us to exercise more. But these digital fitness and health tracking devices can have the opposite effect, according to a study of school children, in which researcher Mikael Quennerstedt participated. The pupils felt monitored and had feelings of inadequacy.

A growing body of evidence shows that college students generally learn less when they use computers or tablets during lectures. That is probably true in workplace meetings, too.

I’ve heard it a few times: Don’t shop when you’re hungry, you’ll spend more and buy unhealthy food! There is more than a grain of truth to this, and plenty of empirical rese…

Newspaper says it bought access to details from world’s largest biometric database, used to administer public services

It’s official: John Deere and General Motors want to eviscerate the notion of ownership.

Twitter has a history of cooperating with Israeli authorities.

When you walk into a brick and mortar retail store like a Nordstrom, Cabela, or even Family Dollar, you're being tracked around the store. Not by an over-suspicious security guard, but by the store's wireless network, using your phone's Wi-Fi. The store then uses your phone to track you around the store, determine if you're a repeat visitor, see what departments you visit, and more. Here's how they do it, and how to stop them.

A company using technology in recycling bins to track smartphones has been asked to stop by the City of London Corporation.

Thomson ReutersGoogle is watching you while you shop in stores.Google has long tracked shoppers' activity online. Now it's stepping up its surveillance and

News that Facebook shared teens’ details with advertisers throws focus on firm’s ability to mine the data of its 2 billion users – and raises serious ethical questions