Digital Ethics

Elon Musk said he wants to make Twitter a platform for free speech. Here is what research shows about claims of political bias and excessive moderation.

An excerpt from the new book by our own deputy editor, Nate Anderson.

"The mass collection of data by ICE poses a tremendous risk."

Why You Should Not Rely On Centralized Platforms Only (expand options), And A Look At: Pixelfed (Instagram Alternate), Mastodon (Twitter/Facebook Alternate), Peertube (Decentralized Video Platform). + Why Social Media Anonymity Is Vital Using Recent News: How Twitter Data Partner Was Used For Surveillance. Our Tutorials Organized By Category: https://buymeacoffee.com/politictech

The FAFSA form included code that sent personal information back to Facebook

Blockchain, cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, Web3 and NFT are the talk of the town. Almost everyone has an opinion, but hardly anyone understands the foundations or relationships. The goal of this series, whose first part you are currently reading, is to provide a structured presentation of promis

Women will flock to the Dark Web and encrypted messaging apps to circumvent new abortion restrictions. But some of those tools are under threat.

In face of the recent terrible news, I have seen a lot of talk about period tracking apps and how they use our data. My research has NOT directly approached privacy in menstrual apps, but I recall a few studies and analyses that have:— Mayara Figueiredo, PhD (@mayaracfig) May 4, 2022

When Elon Musk unveiled his idea for the Tesla bot, it evoked a racist phenomenon dating back to the 18th century.

Content moderators at a leading school surveillance company share their stories — and struggles

It costs just over $160 to get a week's worth of data on where people who visited Planned Parenthood came from, and where they went afterwards.

They’re responsible for deeply personal information.

Over the past few years, it's gradually occurred to me that we're in the midst of a new Dark Age.

Anomaly Six, a secretive government contractor, claims to monitor the movements of billions of phones around the world and unmask spies with the press of a button.

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.