Digital Ethics

In the past few months, the FTC has announced case after case involving consumers’ sensitive health data, alleging violations of both Section 5 of the FTC Act and the FTC’s Health Breach Notification Rule. The privacy of health information is top of mind for consumers – and so it’s top of mind for the FTC. Companies collecting or using health data, listen up. There are a number of key messages from BetterHelp, GoodRx, Premom, Vitagene, and other FTC matters that you need to hear.

People have little protection or recourse when the technology creates and spreads falsehoods about them.

IAPP Summer Privacy Fellow Will Simpson compiles global regulatory approaches to AI governance.

A unique collaboration between outside researchers and Meta has produced its first papers. Is this a ‘new model for platform research’?

People of color — especially Black women — lead the fight against discrimination and other hazards of artificial intelligence.

Rona Wang, a 24-year-old MIT student, was experimenting with the AI image creator Playground AI to create a professional LinkedIn photo.

For decades, the conventional wisdom about Silicon Valley was that it leaned progressive. And by many measures (like donations by Big Tech employees to political candidates), the industry has been…

AI is only as good as the algorithm that operates it, the data that trains it and the law that underpins it. If these are ineffective, as with robo-debt, then calamity can ensue.

Product First is a failure. Sustainable value comes from the pursuit of strong Customer and Employee First cultures.

TikTok accounts are posting artificial intelligence-generated clips of murder victims — mostly children — describing their own ghastly demise.

Artists are worried that their work is being fed into AI systems and are taking legal action.

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Excited that our #FAccT paper on Regulating ChatGPT has now been officially published in the proceedings – open access for all! In the main paper, we analyze…

Contractors in Kenya say they were traumatized by effort to screen out descriptions of violence and sexual abuse during run-up to OpenAI’s hit chatbot.

On July 21, 2023, in a photo op featuring only men in suits, President Biden announced that seven companies (Amazon, Anthropic, Google…

Opinion: Worldcoin is no radical new financial system, and certainly not one aimed at equality or fairness.

"Legal uncertainty" over models means many devs can't establish "appropriate rights."

With drought spreading around the globe, battles over water are erupting between AI companies seeking more computing power and communities where their facilities are located.

People are turning to chatbot impersonations of lost loved ones to help them grieve. Will AI help us live after we’re dead?

Because of a bad facial recognition match and other hidden technology, Randal Reid spent nearly a week in jail, falsely accused of stealing purses in a state he said he had never even visited.

This startup wants to help millions of people whose languages are marginalized online gain better access to AI tools

Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers.

The work of building public knowledge bases of AI failures can’t happen without rigorous and practical taxonomies. Check out this new report on AI harms…

With politicians struggling to curb AI harms, it’s boom time for tech lawyers.

It was only a matter of time before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) initiated a law enforcement investigation focusing on artificial intelligence (AI).

The US already has a road map for the deployment of AI systems. Biden's promised executive order just needs to put these guidelines into practice.

With drought spreading around the globe, battles over water are erupting between AI companies seeking more computing power and communities where their facilities are located.