Digital Ethics

Opinion: Humans train the machine-learning and AI systems at Facebook, Google, and Twitter to filter out bias. The problem: they don't know what they're looking for.

Facebook outlines ambitions for augmented reality glasses

The social network, which has been under increased scrutiny after a former product manager turned into a whistle-blower, is trying to prevent leaks.

Apple has taken a public stand on privacy, curtailing data abuses by apps and declaring it doesn’t exploit its users’ information. But it has also created comprehensive new ways to track us

Whistleblower Frances Haugen says the software that decides what we see in our social feeds is hurting us all. But reforming it won’t be easy.

What happens to the stuff you order online after you send it back?

Here are two proposals for regulating the platform.

A new set of principles offers a vision that makes digital inclusion a natural outcome of an innovative and competitive financial system.

While the hearing touched on a wide swath of Facebook's problems, it focused on the platform's impact on children.

Facebook’s whistleblower, who leaked tens of thousands of documents about the company’s algorithms, could succeed where others failed.

Facebook is acting like a hostile foreign power; it’s time we treated it that way.

Russian authorities on Thursday warned social media giant Facebook it faces a fine of up to 10% of its annual turnover in the country unless it deletes content Moscow deems illegal.

After a day of criticism over his company’s role in spreading fake news about political candidates, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rejected the idea that the News Feed had tilted the election in...

An Alabama medical center was in the midst of a hack when Teiranni Kidd arrived to have her baby. A lawsuit says the computer outages from the attack led staff to miss troubling signs, resulting in the baby’s death, allegations the hospital denies.

A new case study, co-authored by the World Economic Forum, delves into the lessons learned at IBM in the company's quest to develop ethical AI technology.

The third event in our series features Dr. Safiya Noble and Dr. Achuta Kadambi.

pic.twitter.com/sHiF9KdFjL— Privacy Matters (@PrivacyMatters) September 27, 2021

On 26 September 1983, the computers in the Serpukhov-15 bunker outside Moscow, which housed the command center of the Soviet early warning satellite system, ...

As uprisings over police brutality and institutionalized racism have swept over the country, many people are facing the full might of law enforcement weaponry and surveillance for the first time. Whenever protesters, cell phones, and police are in the same place, protesters should worry about cell...

Table of ContentsSection 1: Introduction Section 2: Necessary background info Section 3: Overview of attacks Section 3.1: Basic IMSI-catcher Section 3.2: Communication interception Section 3.2.1: Spoofing authentication Section 3.2.2: Dealing with encryption Section 3.2.3: Why aren’...

Even for new technologies, accessibility matters.

Miss IG Geek’s 8-step guide to #dataprotection by design and by default 1. Don’t gather personal data 2. If you must gather it, don’t keep it 3. If you...

Partnerships with law enforcement give smart cameras to the survivors of domestic violence. But who does it really help?

Timnit Gebru says regulators need to provide whistleblowers working on artificial intelligence with fresh protections backed up by tough enforcement.

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Once self-driving cars are widespread, while each individual unlikely situation is, by definition, very unlikely, there are so many possible scenarios in the world of driving and so many cars that some self-driving car somewhere is likely to encounter one of them at some point. pic.twitter.com/OeS0dYKNBu— Abeba Birhane (@Abebab) September 18, 2021

The Wall Street Journal's "Facebook Files" has been widely lauded. But every article in the series also contains Facebook tracking scripts, and this clear conflict of interest (along with the WSJ's financial relationship with Facebook) is never mentioned. https://t.co/pOpKENLv7v— Pinboard (@Pinboard) September 17, 2021

Employees raised alarms about how the site is used in developing countries, where its user base is already huge and expanding. In many instances Facebook’s response is inadequate or nothing at all.

To build the metaverse, Facebook needs us to get used to smart glasses.