Digital Ethics

Facebook is struggling to retain users, fending off regulation, trying to pivot to VR, and paying a massive wage premium to attract the workers it needs to make any of this happen. The company is on the ropes

An interview with the author of Web3 Is Going Just Great

A de-centralized web will only be safer, more understanding, & more equitable if we invest in those things—including the needed labor, representation, ethics, & social science.Without that, decentralization will be more dangerous, increase misunderstanding, & amplify inequality— J. Nathan Matias (@natematias) February 23, 2022

And if a cryptocurrency is not pledging to create financial liberation, it's instead trying to merge with the legacy system. Among the altcoins, memecoins, and shitcoins, other quasi-cryptos like XRP (Ripple) were touted to be part of a new global payments system...— Concoda.oof 💥 (@concodanomics) February 23, 2022

If you didn't care about helping the poor until you were convinced it was an opportunity for shilling crypto? I don't believe you. If you didn't care about gov't seizing assets of the vulnerable, but suddenly cared when it happened to white supremacists? I don't believe you.— anildash (@anildash) February 21, 2022

\u003cstrong\u003eThe Norwegian Data Protection Authority confirmed that Grindr has been sharing personal data without a legal basis and fined the dating app 65 million NOK (€ 6.2 million).\u003c/strong\u003e

En ny granskning av dejtingappen Tinder visar att en användare kan betala upp till 12 gånger mer än en annan -  för samma tjänst. Vad de varierande priserna bygger på är omöjligt för användaren att veta. Sveriges Konsumenter misstänker nu att det kan h...

One of Meta's many new corporate values is "Meta, Metamates, me."

Spotify’s recent Joe Rogan controversy has also deepened a rift between the platform and artists over pay.

The retinal-implant manufacturer has shifted its focus, leaving users with little or no support.

Hello, friends,You may not believe me when I say this, but every year, spies and cops from governments around the world gather at a secretive trade show known as the “Wiretappers Ball.” There they buy spyware, surveillance software and hacking tools they use in spycraft and often on their own citizens.I first encountered the market for off-the-shelf surveillance software in 2011, when my team at The Wall Street Journal obtained the marketing brochures for companies exhibiting their wares at the…

Recordings from a Sheriff’s conference where people tried to sell robot dogs, facial recognition, and “drone stuff.”

When Danny Casale tells me he is “completely, fully doxxed,” a series of nightmare images flash through my mind: videogame designers bombarded with rape and death threats, SWAT teams swarming the homes of innocent people, journalists inundated with crude photos. For me, and I imagine for most ...

Consumer Reports tested 10 DIY home security systems, including Ring and SimpliSafe, for security vulnerabilities. Only half could withstand jamming attacks.

A platform run by the Bosch-owned startup Azena has the potential to transform the surveillance camera industry. Experts worry it is ripe for abuse.

Hello, friends,The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has begun requiring users of some of its online services to submit a selfie to a private company, ID.me, to verify their identity using facial recognition technology.The move marks one of the largest rollouts of the controversial technology and has been decried by critics as a violation of privacy. Activists at Fight for the Future called for the IRS to halt the use of ID.me: “This is creating a massive database that government and law enforcemen…

ID.me's CEO says unemployment fraud is costing taxpayers $400 billion, but his own company is denying claims because of problems with its tech, users say.

At a Duke administrative law conference (yes, this is how I spend my Saturdays). Cass Sunstein says the **most pressing issue** in law / public administration is (1) to reduce the impact of cognitive bias and (2) eliminate noise. For the record I absolutely disagree … (1/n)— Jenna Burrell, PhD (@jennaburrell) February 12, 2022

I was asked at short notice to fill in for a speaker in Stanford's EE380 course who had to cancel. Below the fold is a hastily updated vers...

A year and a half ago I attended Brewster Kahle's Decentralized Web Summit and wrote: I am working on a post about my reactions to the fi...

‎Program: Tech Won't Save Us, Avsnitt: The Poorly Paid Workers Powering Automation w/ Phil Jones – 10 feb. 2022

by Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Margaret Mitchell and Alexander Todorov

Blockchain research firm Chainalysis says the value extracted from the hacks grew by 40% year-on-year.

New Google research suggests what AI does to identify images may not amount to "knowing" anything.

Kathy Baxter and her product design ethics team at Salesforce have a lot of sway over when tech is ready to ship and when it’s not. But there are lots of technologies living on the Salesforce platform beyond their control.

Update (October 22): Earlier this month, SpotSpotter filed a lawsuit alleging that the Vice report linked below contains false and defamatory statements.Court documents recently reviewed by VICE have revealed that ShotSpotter, a company that makes and sells audio gunshot detection to cities and...

Before you post your latest Wordle triumph, read this. https://t.co/oFeANdVHhc— Slate (@Slate) February 7, 2022

Joe Rogan argued for saying the N-word: “Don’t you think by not saying it, it becomes this ridiculously charged magic word?”Rogan predicted people would get in trouble for saying “the N-word,” just like they do for wearing “hoop earrings, braids, and dreadlocks.” #SpotifyKnew pic.twitter.com/CAhTWtTpHn— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) February 6, 2022

absolutely horrifying: amazon’s algorithm identified a product that people were using to commit suicide. it then started to recommend additional products that made the suicide easier to executte. https://t.co/eKX4z8FOt7 pic.twitter.com/BpbvLhjoTO— maxwell (@maxwellstrachan) February 4, 2022