Digital Ethics

Decode key cybersecurity news and insights. With Sam Sabin.

What we can learn from the Soviet Colonel who saved billions of lives

The data that powers the most cutting edge technology in Silicon Valley begins in Nairobi's slum.

3 weeks ago LAION-400M dataset (now a billion+), first Image-Alt-text pair dataset of this scale was released. @vinayprabhu, @MannyKayy & I dug into it https://t.co/6JG4c876tV Long tread 1/Warning: paper contains NSFW content that may be disturbing, distressing &/or offensive pic.twitter.com/pv5BTyWhLm— Abeba Birhane (@Abebab) October 6, 2021

LinkedIn ran experiments on more than 20 million users over five years that, while intended to improve how the platform…

I'm grateful for the iPhone 14's crash-detection feature, but it turned a minor phone mishap into a terrifying afternoon for my loved ones.

The Nobel Prize lecture by Nobel Peace Prize laureate 2021 Maria Ressa was delivered in Oslo, Norway on 10 December 2021. Read the lecture in English, Norwegian, or Russian at https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2021/ressa/lecture/

The disconnect is leading to paranoia and "productivity theater."

An Overview of AI Ethics and #TrustworthyAI#AIEthics #EthicalAI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Algorithm #Algorithms #Data #Digital #Tech #Technology #Ethics #Ethical #Policy #Governance #Politics https://t.co/Oi75nJZ88r— AI Ethics Watch (@AIEthicsWatch) September 24, 2022

Bringing Animals Into AI Ethics#AIEthics #EthicalAI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Algorithm #Algorithms #Data #Digital #Tech #Technology #Ethics #Ethical #Policy #Governance #Politics https://t.co/s4KLd4htg9— AI Ethics Watch (@AIEthicsWatch) September 24, 2022

An 8-year-old’s YouTube snafu—and one unlikely parent activist—sparked a nationwide debate on the tech giant’s ubiquity and handling of children’s data.

The FUCK you will. Remember when we told you deepfakes would increase the mistrust, alienation, & epistemic crisis already underway in this culture? Yeah that. That times a LOT."Amazon has a plan to make Alexa mimic anyone's voice [w/o their consent]"https://t.co/kXm4EXKgp8— Dr. Damien P. Williams, MA, MSc, PhD, Patternist (@Wolven) June 22, 2022

#EdTech Promised to Change How Students Learn, But the Real Revolution Lies Within Us#AIEthics #EthicalAI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Algorithm #Algorithms #Data #Digital #Tech #Technology #Ethics #Ethical #Policy #Governance #Politics https://t.co/CL64tEVbKq— AI Ethics Watch (@AIEthicsWatch) September 24, 2022

😈Awful AI is a curated list to track current scary usages of AI - hoping to raise awareness - GitHub - daviddao/awful-ai: 😈Awful AI is a curated list to track current scary usages of AI - hoping to...

The Algorithm: AI-generated art raises tricky questions about ethics, copyright, and security https://t.co/B3rcsUpl11— Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (@IEAITUM) September 24, 2022

Today, noyb.eu filed a complaint against Google with the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL). The tech giant has repeatedly ignored the European Court of Justice (CJEU) ruling on direct marketing

Microsoft in 2020: We unreservedly apologize for "Productivity Score" and are changing the product not to spy on individuals. We're sorry. Productivity Score was a terrible idea and we understand why people were upset. It won't happen again, we promise. https://t.co/naZMu9V9hn— Ian Linkletter (@Linkletter) September 18, 2022

“This isn’t Facebook,” users complain. But others are finding it a valuable place to talk about much more than work.

Twitter's former security head testified that the FBI warned Twitter it had a Chinese spy on staff.

The extended spell checkers in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge can leak sensitive information, once again highlighting our dependence on online services and features.

The new probe comes weeks after the OPC launched enforcement action against the police in December 2021 for breaching privacy obligations.

Netflix and TikTok have helped bring captions to the masses.

Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken. Project by Dries Depoorter.

Tech + research folks: what would you consider to be the closest calls & worst failures on ethics in public-interest research on tech & society?If you're not comfortable sharing publicly, you can also DM. pic.twitter.com/pN7CQnUD2C— J. Nathan Matias (@natematias) September 18, 2022

Categorized under ‘Medium’ threat level, the vulnerabilities, CERT-In says can allow a hacker to bypass implemented security restrictions on the…

A YouTube spokesperson said that YouTube’s experiments with bumper ads has now ‘concluded’.

Samsung is making smart TV owners wade through pages of settings to avoid being tracked by online advertisers