Digital Ethics

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.

🇩🇪 2022(“Dear bathers, if your ticket does not come out of the machine, use the rubber mallet and hit the marked cross.”) https://t.co/uVhkiIsNHl pic.twitter.com/LjiUxz3epv— Stefan Plattner (@splattne) May 29, 2022

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.

In early 2018, officials at University College London were shocked to learn that meetings organized by “race scientists” and neo-Nazis,…

This article focusses on legal and human rights issues of artificial intelligence (AI) being discussed and debated, how they are being addressed, gaps…

When Syreeta McFadden was young, she dreaded being photographed. Cameras made her skin look darkened and distorted. Now a photographer herself, she's learned to capture various hues of brown skin.

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. A call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship on its head. We like to think that we are in control of the future of "artificial" intelligence. Th...

I’m happy the article’s author resisted the narrative that statistical pattern matching (vaingloriously and misleadingly called ‘AI’) *can* predict the future, choosing to identify the real problem… pic.twitter.com/K50QrsbWV9— Dwayne Monroe is fashionably Hegelian (@cloudquistador) December 28, 2021

Amazon has fixed its voice assistant so that it will not suggest the dangerous “challenge” again.

“It is detestable to consider the armchair mental gymnastics of ‘robot rights’ as a pressing ethical issue in light of real threats and harms imposed by AI today on society’s most vulnerable.”