Digital Ethics

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

Cities in Sweden and Norway are aiming to recycle the heat given off by data centers.

On International Identity Day, it is time to question whether technology-based identity systems are actually inclusive.

The hacker is believed to have access to Uber's source code, email and other internal systems.

A week ago, I finally got round to implementing an idea I’d been toying with for years: what if your computer made a little bit of noise every time it sent data to Google? From studying logs, I’d long known just how many sites send all your visits and clicks to (at least) Google, but a log that you have to manually create first and then analyze is not very dramatic.

“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”

As media partner for the upcoming DesignUp 2022 conference, YourStory presents speaker insights in our first preview article.

An EFF investigation of public records acquired from dozens of state and local law enforcement agencies has uncovered a widely-used mass surveillance technology. Americans are accustomed to hearing about how the National Security Agency (NSA), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and even the domestically-focused Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have illegally swept up massive amounts of data on people living in the United States—but what about the state and local police? Fog Data Science LLC, a previously unknown company, provides law enforcement with easy and often warrantless access to the precise and continuous geolocation of hundreds of millions of unsuspecting Americans, collected through their smartphone apps and then aggregated by shadowy data brokers.

The kidney allocation score determines who gets a life-saving transplant. Here’s how it was made.

Telling people to quit the platform is less effective than stopping influential elites from using the site in harmful ways.

Research must be ethical and UX is no exception. Let’s do better together.