Digital Ethics

If you could take a cross-section of the average city block, you would see the ways that the built environment of surveillance—its physical presence in, over, and under our cities—makes the various types of surveillance an entwined problem that must be combatted through entwined solutions. We decided to create a graphic to show how—from overhead to underground—these technologies and legal authorities overlap, how they disproportionately impact the lives of marginalized communities, and the tools we have at our disposal to halt or mitigate their harms.

An Apple Air Tag is priced at four for $100 right now. You can stick them anywhere – attaching by Bluetooth to a phone to track, whatever they’re stuck on.

A Texas woman has gone viral on TikTok for sounding the alarm about finding a tracking device in her bag following an evening out.

Computer algorithms that scan everything from terror watch lists to eviction records spit out flawed tenant screening reports. And almost nobody is watching

Investigation on tenant screening used to illustrate needed reforms

Let's read through the lines of Google's responses around discriminating against Black women, shall we? 🧵 https://t.co/pmJ2z4fPy5— MMitchell (@mmitchell_ai) December 17, 2021

Amazon.com Inc was marketing a collection of President Xi Jinping's speeches and writings on its Chinese website about two years ago, when Beijing delivered an edict, according to two people familiar with the incident. The American e-commerce giant must stop allowing any customer ratings and reviews in China.

Co-founder of Google DeepMind and CEO of SpaceX among the 2,400 signatories of pledge to block lethal autonomous weapons

AI leaders have, for the first time, taken concrete action against lethal autonomous weapons, signing a pledge to “neither participate in nor support the development, manufacture, trade, or use of lethal autonomous weapons.”

People "choose to believe or not believe a thing. They are the ones who choose to share or not share a thing," Andrew Bosworth told Axios on HBO.

UXers should be the most comfortable talking about privilege, racism, homophobia, white supremacy, xenophobia, etc. because being human-centered demands moments of grief & discomfort. Failure to do so reinforces a shallow point of view on the human experience & encourages apathy.— Vivianne Castillo (@vcastillo630) June 23, 2019

The suit alleges that the company blatantly ignored warnings about the platform's problems in the region for five years—and by then, it was too late.

The Challenges of Building Healthy Tech for Young People

Twitter Spaces has become a tool for extremists and racists. Employees warned that might happen.

New developments in technology—from the printing press to television—have long facilitated our capacity for “absent presence,” enabling us to escape t…

Axon and Motorola lobbied Congress to promote police tech in reform bills. Their devices may not change policing — and yet business is booming.

Modern times in Estonia. A robot which had become stuck in the snow, saw me coming, and asked with a synthesised voice whether I could help out. So I did, and both of us carried on with our day. pic.twitter.com/4H7SbwVn6t— IllimarLepikvonWirén (@iLepikVonWiren) December 7, 2021

The policy meant to tackle doxxing on the platform was weaponized by the far-right, leaving many anti-fascist activists locked out of their accounts

Better frameworks for agency and accountability can help researchers and designers make safer, more integrated AI-human systems.

A look at historical case studies shows us how we handle the liability of automated systems.

We must curb the power of Silicon Valley and protect those who speak up about the harms of AI

How law enforcement and Big Tech exploit neighborhood watch technology to create dystopian, digitally gated communities.

Attorneys say the constant workday face scans, mandated by their bosses, are fueling fears of over-surveillance: “I will not subject myself to this indignity and the invasion of my privacy in my own home."

We are a Disabled People's Organisation run and controlled by disabled people. We use the Social Model of Disability to fight for our rights and to remove disabling barriers in society.

Insight Piece by Kobi Leins & Anja Kaspersen

Millions of crime predictions left on an unsecured server show PredPol mostly avoided Whiter neighborhoods, targeted Black and Latino neighborhoods

Overlapping chatter. Interruptions. Few nonverbal cues. For women, virtual meetings can mirror the inequities of in-person meetings.

WE MAKE YOUR BIG DATA AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM TRUSTWORTHY, ETHICAL AND TRANSPARENT. We are a Legal, Technical and Ethical AI consultancy We have designed our own method for developing an ethical and legal auto-regulation framework through which we help organizations use their Artificial Intelligence and Big Data systems efficiently, responsibly and transparently.  As a result, […]

Timnit Gebru is launching Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR) to document AI’s harms on marginalized groups