Digital Ethics

🔬 Research summary by Connor Wright, our Partnerships Manager. [ Original paper by Ada Lovelace Institute, AI Now Institute and Open Government Partnership] Overview: The developments in AI are never…

An internal police chief memo shows employees were directed to use ‘field interview cards’ which would then be reviewed

Exclusive: National and local governments using targeted ads on search engines and social media

Kevin Kelly is the founder of Wired Magazine and author of several books, among them The Inevitable. For Warp News he presents his case for optimism.

The City of Amsterdam has developed contractual terms for the algorithms that we purchase from suppliers and we are happy to share our knowledge.

Privacy concerns about AI systems are growing. So researchers are testing whether they can remove sensitive data without retraining the system from scratch.

Men are more likely to cause crashes, but women are more likely to die in them. That’s because car manufacturers have no incentive to safely design vehicles for women—and that has to change.

Age Appropriate Design Code mandates apps to take ‘best interests’ of child users into account

The China social credit system provides up-to-date information on the behavior of individuals and corporations across China. Learn more here.

The social network has constructed a vast infrastructure to keep toxic material off its platform. At the center of it is Accenture, the blue-chip consulting firm.

Question: Who do you rely on at your organization for data privacy expertise? Your legal team? Your security engineering team? Was "UX designer" among your first thoughts? The answer is likely no. And that's a problem.

The law represents an approach to privacy shaped by both the Holocaust and Stasi surveillance in East Germany

Email aliases are an underrated hero of digital privacy. Using an email alias protects your personal email address.

The gigantic data centers that power the internet consume vast amounts of electricity and emit as much  CO2 as the airline industry. To change that, data companies need to turn to clean energy sources and dramatically improve energy efficiency.

BREAKING: Today a court held that our case challenging Clearview AI’s privacy-destroying conduct — the capture of millions of people’s unique identifying faceprints without their knowledge or consent — can proceed.— ACLU (@ACLU) August 27, 2021

The European Union's lead data protection supervisor has recommended on Thursday that personal data such as search queries & internet browsing history should not be used for the assessment of credit scores and creditworthiness.

It plans to begin sharing them publicly next week.

The gigantic data centers that power the internet consume vast amounts of electricity and emit as much  CO2 as the airline industry. To change that, data companies need to turn to clean energy sources and dramatically improve energy efficiency.

AI-powered characters based on real people can star in thousands of videos and say anything, in any language.

Science and Engineering Ethics - A variety of approaches have appeared in academic literature and in design practice representing “ethics-first” methods. These approaches typically...

Antitrust theory portrays data privacy as a factor, like quality, that improves with competition. This Essay argues that view, though not inaccurate, is incomplete. It offers a new account of how data privacy interests have begun to clash at the margins with antitrust law, particularly in the digital economy.  

Experts say medical images like X-Rays and CT scans allow algorithms to determine a patient's race—and warn it could lead to bias and discrimination.

There’s a reason civil liberties groups are calling for Apple to abandon its system.

Diversity: we’ve got this nailed, right? Wait a minute… Didn’t we just forget 1.3 billion disabled people? Join the #valuable500 movement at https://www.thev...

Some pub ordering apps ask too many questions, but you can refuse, says the information watchdog.

Biometric collection and identification devices were seized last week during the Taliban’s offensive.

Transparency is a key principle in all privacy laws* and it’s easy to see why. Secretive collection and use of personal information doesn’t usually end well. Telling people upfront what personal information you want or need, and why, helps them make informed decisions. Decisions about which organisa