Digital Ethics

I saw this “drink menu“ in the ladies room of a bar/restaurant in Lake Placid. Depending upon what drink you ordered that was a signal to the bartender of what kind of help you needed. I have blacked out the names of the drinks for obvious reasons. I wish all bars did this pic.twitter.com/dRURs9q4dq— Michelle Manning 🍎 💻 (@ManningTechTalk) April 29, 2022

“We do not have an adequate level of control and explainability over how our systems use data,” Facebook engineers say in leaked document.

The fake accounts had handles like @NayNayCantStop, @LatrineWatts, and @CisHate, and bios like “Queer + black + angry.”

A new documentary sees a reporter don a VR headset and head into the world that’s supposed to be our future. Within 10 minutes, she had witnessed the most disturbing sights of her life – in a space seven-year-olds can access

i'm tired of the AI papers that are always like "we made a system that can tell if you're gay, if you're cute, if you believe in god, if you're trustworthy, if you're memorable... uh UHHH but we're doing it to to... um... to STOP discrimination :)"— Ali Alkhatib (@_alialkhatib) April 24, 2022

An MIT Technology Review series investigates how AI is enriching a powerful few by dispossessing communities that have been dispossessed before.

It may have found a new standard for penalizing tech companies that violate privacy and use deceptive data practices: algorithmic destruction.

This is the view of our home planet from Earth-Sun Lagrange point 1, about a million miles away, courtesy of the EPIC instrument https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/ on the DSCOVR spacecraft. From this di...

For many women, feeling like an outsider isn’t an illusion — it’s the result of systemic bias and exclusion.

My new book Imaginable is here! “With a gamer’s affinity for imagined worlds and the futurist’s gusto for embracing what comes next, Jane McGonigal urges us to place ourselves ten…

Thanks to the mistrust of big tech, the creation of better tools for developers, and the weird and wonderful creativity of ordinary people, we’re seeing an incredibly unlikely comeback: the web is thriving again. If you had to pick the unexpected breakout consumer tech hit of 2022, you could

Think your muted? Better think again. A team of researchers found out Big Tech keeps recording when you mute.

Organizations cannot continue to shape solutions according to an average user, there is no such perspective. There is no average thinking and decision-making...

Lawmakers advance proposals to let police forces across the EU link their photo databases—which include millions of pictures of people’s faces.

In this blog, we share our tips and experiences for supporting deaf people and people with hearing loss during user research.

I’m preparing a couple of new workshops on codesign (or participatory design) and Indigenous Research methods for a client.

Motherboard obtained reports of stalking, harassment, and abuse using Airtags, targeting victims of intimate partner violence.

So, what should companies do about physical trackers like AirTags and Tiles now? They should agree on and publish a standard that allows detection of physical trackers to be built into apps and operating systems.— Eva (@evacide) April 6, 2022

False Discovery in A/B Testinghttps://t.co/oodVkX0BdaIf the statistics in this paper are over your head, jump to the conclusion. There are many important takeaways in this paper about the role of a/b testing in our work. I'll highlight a few below.— Teresa Torres (@ttorres) January 5, 2022

Shanghai'' Wear your mask Wash your hands Disinfect yourself regularly Social distance yourself more Be well ventilated ...'' pic.twitter.com/bxUidefhrb— Songpinganq (@songpinganq) March 29, 2022

Beijingomicron arrived.Loudspeaker on the drone saying'' This community is in lockdown now! When It's your turn to do daily mandatory covid test, take your ID card and go down stairs to test immediately! Otherwise stay in your room!''2022/1/15 pic.twitter.com/0iqvcoBRcv— Songpinganq (@songpinganq) January 15, 2022

När jag förra helgen försökte få tag på Covid-test sa butikspersonalen att de slutat ta in det pga "Covid är slut nu". Samtidigt i Shanghai: https://t.co/QU3mLvrCXF— Marcin 🌈✨🖤 (@dekaminski) April 10, 2022

Experts attending the 2021 Digital Ethics Summit spoke out against the idea that regulation will stifle technological innovation, arguing that setting clear rules will produce more ethical innovation.

The Sam Altman–founded crypto startup has said it aims to alleviate global poverty, but so far it has angered the very people it claims to be helping.

‎Program: Ethics for a Changing World, Avsnitt: The Robots of Humanity: Intelligence and Existential Despair – 21 mars 2022

The Yandex.Food leak implicates thousands of Russian users, including military personnel

Different kinds of people are necessary everywhere but maybe especially in the UX field. Only hiring people with very high IQ is a really bad strategy. Also: so ableist. 😣Here is a direct link to the ad: https://t.co/vWcqOFDKZR https://t.co/5B2tUPBD0v— Kolombiken (@kolombiken) April 2, 2022

50+ Resources for Aspiring Technology Policy Professionals

NEW YORK (AP) — A controversial face recognition company that's built a massive photographic dossier of the world's people for use by police, national governments and — most recently — the Ukrainian military is now planning to offer its technology to banks and other private businesses.