Digital Ethics

Apple’s AirTags are great for finding lost items. But they have a darker side.

You may want to think twice before giving the parking attendant your Tesla-issued NFC card.

Traffic safety officials escalate and widen probe to 830,000 Tesla cars as they discover patterns suggesting Tesla's Autopilot feature can encourage dangerous driving behavior.

Centralised power and decentralised communities are on the verge of outright conflict for the control of the digital public space. The resilience of centralised networks and the political organisation of their owners remains significantly underestimated by protocol activists. At the same time, the peer-to-peer community is dangerously unprepared for a crisis-fuelled future that has very suddenly arrived at their door.

“I feel like with these tools, there’s some backdoor to access user data in almost all of them,” said an external auditor hired to help TikTok close off Chinese access to sensitive information, like Americans’ birthdays and phone numbers.

Harassed across the internet for more than a decade, a group of women found each other—and their alleged tormentor.

Can You See Me is a simple tool that offers guidance on webcam placement to people with limited amounts of useful vision.

Big Tech’s big car ambitions have antitrust advocates worried.

‘Is LaMDA sentient?’

In the recent paper about "soulbound" tokens, Vitalik Buterin et al. write that they aim to build technology that is "acceptably non-dystopian". Do any of today's self-sovereign identity projects fit that bill?

Lisa Jones-Engel quit her work as a lab researcher when she began to see how ‘like us’ monkeys are

Nope. Not doing it. Always own your platform.

Automakers and technology companies say they are making driving safer, but verifying these claims is difficult.

The maker of the Taser believes its new virtual reality firing range and community policing simulator can make cops less violent. Critics are less than sure.

Why great things never came from comfort zones? Because the world is always changing. We need to face uncertainty to move forward.

Voi releases industry-first research into women and escooter riding. But how do we go from understanding the challenges to making real gains?

My goal is to get meaningful privacy protection in the hands of as many people as possible...

Data analyzed by Atlas VPN reveals that Google collects the most information about its users out of five selected tech giants - Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, and Apple.

The e-mail startup isn’t the only company learning that a product can be powerful and elegant without being good.

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A Florida teenager taking a biology class at a community college got an upsetting note this year. A startup called…

The privacy-focused DuckDuckGo browser purposely allows Microsoft trackers on third-party sites due to an agreement in their syndicated search content contract between the two companies.

The encrypted-email company, popular with the security-conscious, has a plan to go mainstream.

Federal regulators accuse the company of violating a 2011 agreement over the treatment of users' personal data, including phone numbers and email addresses.

Governments of 49 of the world’s most populous countries harmed children’s rights by endorsing online learning products during Covid-19 school closures without adequately protecting children’s privacy.

A feature of email is that my inbox is an immutable copy of everything I received no-one can change. With email, I can prove I've been harassed, sent malware, wrong links, illegal orders by my employers, the date of an event I've missed because it was wrong and I'm innocent, etc. With Google AMP, the sender will be able to "update" those emails and deny his mistake, hide proofs, fake the history. This technology put people at risk. #SaveEmailFromGoogleAMP

pUC-Berkeley’s Nicholas Weaver has been studying cryptocurrency for years. He thinks it’s a terrible idea that will end in disaster. /p

This would be the worst surveillance apparatus outside of China, and completely disproportionate.