Digital Ethics

Facebook has given information to Nebraska police to prosecute a teenager for abortion despite claims to encrypt user data.

Motherboard has obtained court documents that show Facebook gave police a teenager’s private chats about her abortion. Cops then used those chats to seize her phone and computer.

Regulators are close to stopping Meta from sending EU data to the US, bringing a years-long privacy battle to a head.

Good morning to everyone, especially the Facebook https://t.co/EkwTpff9OI researchers who are going to have to rein in their Facebook-hating, election denying chatbot today pic.twitter.com/wMRBTkzlyD— Jeff Horwitz (@JeffHorwitz) August 7, 2022

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‘Black-box’ AI-based discrimination seems to be beyond the control of organisations that use it

Amazon keeps sneaking in into our homes with its aggressive acquisitions of smart device companies.

Remember when we called software that recorded what you were doing "spyware" Now that's pretty much every piece of software

Detailed in a proposed class action settlement.

Police should be able to monitor passengers who spend hours on the railway network in case they are pickpockets or sex offenders — or are in need of help — a chief constable has said

Blocking third-party cookies in Chrome gets another delay. This time until 2024.

Aussie cybersecurity firm Internet 2.0 pulled apart TikTok’s source code and found the staggering amount of phone access the app grants itself.

Relations are basic building blocks of human cognition. Classic and recent work suggests that many relations are early developing, and quickly perceived. Machine models that aspire to human-level...

Can you afford an adversarial attack on autonomous car object detection algorithms? 🧵 pic.twitter.com/AVg6pVquuC— Evil AI Cartoons (@EvilAICartoons) August 3, 2022

The pressure on schools to keep students safe, especially to protect them physically and support their mental health, has never been greater. The mental health crisis, which has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and concerns about the increasing number of school shootings have led to questions about the role of technology in meeting these […]

“The idea is that if enough people get hurt, they’ll stop coming.”

Beyond the current news cycle about whether AIs are sentient is a more practical and immediately consequential conversation about AI value…

Twenty-five years of neoliberal political economy are to blame for today's regime of surveillance advertising, and only public policy can undo it.

You could sell your textbook on the blockchain.

Putting children under surveillance and limiting their access to information doesn’t make them safer—in fact, research suggests just the opposite. Unfortunately those tactics are the ones endorsed by the Kids Online Safety Act of 2022 (KOSA), introduced by Sens. Blumenthal and Blackburn. The bill...

I’m preparing for a talk about inclusion in AI and the need for more diversity in the field. While I was aware that the field of AI was hugely skewed towards men, I had no idea of the extent of it's misogynistic conference culture. In particular, one story about the battle to change the offensive name of a well established conference stood out as a symbol of bigger problems. For decades, one of the leading global AI conferences went by the acronym “NIPS” which stood for Neural Information Proce

Attached: 1 image Reading David F. Noble's "Progress without People" and this one page basically explains why one has to oppose the whole crypto space.

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Micah Goodman Spring 2022

Privacy concerns are forcing an end to tracking cookies, and the industry can't agree on what's next.

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Google Search and Drive are erroneously flagging links to Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) research papers and websites as malware. BleepingComputer has successfully reproduced the issue, first reported by researcher Maximilian Golla.

The NHTSA is now investigating a stunning total of 39 Tesla crashes.

As well as collecting your data, Chrome also gives Google a huge amount of control over how the web works

This article shares a breakdown of the zebra business model - one that is both profitable and improves society and discusses how we’re thinking about growth.