Digital Ethics

BBC journalist Johny Cassidy researched how newsrooms could make charts and graphs more accessible to blind audiences.

Mann Ki Baat: PM Modi said even if all commercial planes made in human history are weighed together, it will still be less than this e-waste.

A conversation with Arvind Narayanan

Not surprisingly, female customers bear the brunt of the privacy violations.

The Internet is allowing us to build a richer, more complex society but the way in which we Internet today is failing to support the governance systems that a more complex world requires. I take a look at why these issues are related, try to develop an intuition for a way forward, and point at the emerging field that is coming together to build that future.

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This third volume in the Do No Harm Guide series from the Urban Institute seeks to provide in-depth lessons on how to create visualization products that are more accessible to disabled people.

We should all be skeptical that Google will deliver on its promise to improve consumer privacy and expand data protection, when that very act will erode Google's dominance.

"We've been doing everything we can to fix this," says school official.

Your For You page isn’t entirely automated.

How forming an AI ethics committee will educate and engage your teams and customers about ethical dilemmas artificial intelligence can raise.

The AI-based chatbot is allowing bad actors with absolutely no coding experience to develop malware.

Social media is more popular than ever, but research has found that it may contribute to symptoms of depression. Logging off on occasion may help.

It seems that Replika, the AI "companion" app that, for a fee, encourages users to sext with their chatbot avatars, can't stop making the news.

Making sure our machines understand the intent behind our instructions is an important problem that requires understanding intelligence itself.

As artificial intelligence becomes more widely available, bad actors are turning to computer-generated faces in their attempts to manipulate social media networks.

My avatars were cartoonishly pornified, while my male colleagues got to be astronauts, explorers, and inventors.

Is the current obsession with AI Ethics doing any good? Maybe Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics wasn't such a great starting point after all

Guidance for designing ethically humane digital products and services through patterns focused on user well-being.

A conversation with Meredith Whittaker

After gaining access to a powerful administrative account, the researchers could perform all sorts of tasks inside Reviver, the sole company that sells the digital plates in California.

After a lengthy argument, a right to repair comes to agricultural machinery.

A European Union ruling against Meta marks the beginning of the end of targeted ads.

Silicon Valley has a solution for everything, but who do its ideas really serve? Every Thursday, Paris Marx is joined by a new guest to critically examine the tech industry, its thought leaders, and the worldview it spreads. They challenge the notion that tech alone can drive our world forward by showing that separating tech from politics has consequences for us all, especially the most vulnerable. But if tech won't save us, what will? This podcast isn't simply about tearing tech down; it also presents radical ideas for tech designed for human flourishing instead of surveillance, acquisitions, or to boost stock prices. A better world is possible, and so is better technology.

After almost five years, the Irish DPC decided on a noyb complaint and required Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp to stop using the personal data of users for advertisement in the EU.

Elon Musk said Twitter would begin authenticating users who pay $8 for Blue. Our tech columnist was still able to get a checkmark for an impostor Sen. Ed Markey.

Exclusive: tech firm quietly launches new audiobook catalogue narrated by AI – but move expected to spark backlash

Microsoft Editor in Edge and Enhanced Spellchecker in Chrome are sending personal information to Microsoft and Google respectively.