Digital Ethics

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Twitter chaos continues, following the purchase of the social network by Elon Musk. From engineers being asked to work crazy hours, to Musk pulling the plug on a Twitter Blue contract with more than 300 web publishers. Musk appointed himself as absolute dictator of Twitter by disbanding the original board of directors, and replacing it […]

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Cybercriminals are already taking advantage of Twitter's latest tumult by sending verification-themed phishing emails.

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As the government develops online safety guidelines, digital rights groups says any approach requiring the use of ID is ‘invasive…

The encrypted messaging developer said Santa Clara County police wanted very specific personal information of certain users, including IP addresses along with dates and times for each login.

Companies say they want ethical AI. But those working in the field say that ambition comes at their expense.

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This essay explore what infrastructures are needed to cultivate a more feminist, caring digital society.

Is Instagram fueling eating disorders in teenagers? Does TikTok harm your mental health? Are Facebook groups encouraging people to take part in offline violence? The answer is… we don’t know for sure. And that’s a serious problem. Sign our petition calling on platform transparency: https://mzl.la/3zjd1fL

This sweater developed by the University of Maryland is an invisibility cloak against AI.It uses "adversarial patterns" to stop AI from recognizing the person wearing it. pic.twitter.com/aJ8LlHixvX— Morning Brew ☕️ (@MorningBrew) October 25, 2022

Supporting transnational worker organizing should be at the center of the fight for “ethical AI.”

Greece's privacy authority has fined facial recognition company Clearview AI 20 million euros for violating parts of the GDPR.

Our Future Health plans to develop new ways to detect illnesses earlier and predict who is at higher risk of…

A Dutch court ruled Wednesday that a government system that uses artificial intelligence to identify potential welfare fraudsters is illegal because it violates laws that shield human rights and privacy.

SyRI was used to predict who may be at high risk of conducting housing or social security fraud.

Facing pushback, the Oakland Police Department this week said it would no longer seek...

The authors of "Surveillance State" discuss what the West misunderstands about Chinese state control and whether the invasive trajectory of surveillance tech can still be reversed.

The project, assigned to a Beijing-led team, would have involved accessing location data from some U.S. users’ devices without their knowledge or consent.

A massive new study of over 400,000 college students finds that #Facebook exposure increased depression, especially among those who were most susceptible to mental illness, and reduced academic performance, by fostering unfavorable social comparisons. https://t.co/0GddnmTcAc pic.twitter.com/cwjjI1kE50— Jay Van Bavel (@jayvanbavel) October 20, 2022

Security researchers have found a surprising method for exposing location data in otherwise secure messaging apps WhatsApp, Signal, and Threema. While the method sounds imprecise, tests showed that it provided greater than 80% reliability … Restore Privacy reports. A team of researchers has found that it’s possible to infer the locations of users of popular […]

A really great interview with @mer__edith, president of @SignalApp"...we are not in the business of compromising on #privacy, and we are not in the business of handing people who want and need #Signal a compromised version of it..."@verge @recklesshttps://t.co/tkUJk9WDVi— ssoɯpuosɐɾ@ 🇨🇦 (@jasondmoss) October 20, 2022

The giving philosophy, which has adopted a focus on the long term, is a conservative project, consolidating decision-making among a small set of technocrats.

The ML community has a unique responsibility to ensure the technologies we produce are fair, responsible and don’t reinforce racial & socioeconomic biases.