Digital Ethics

So long as algorithms are trained on racist historical data and outdated values, there will be no opportunities for change.

I was driving 70 mph on the edge of downtown St. Louis when the exploit began to take hold.

Companies have sprouted up to help others navigate the varied laws around the world governing websites.

The Markup, through public records requests, found more than 20 public agencies using the sometimes-controversial software

Facebook employees repeatedly warned of the role resharing content plays and offered myriad solutions only to see their suggestions ignored, documents show.

AI Ethics job listings are ignoring the humanities and social science skills that might actually help critically examine how data is collected.

(This text is very long. Maybe too long. You can find a PDF and an EPUB of it below.The current version of this text will always live at https://web3.tante.cc) By tante tante@tante.ccVersion 1.0Date: Dec 17th 2021License: CC-BY-SA 4.0 Introduction I had hoped that I wouldn’t have to write this thing, that blockchains and NFTs and […]

Just re-upping this from Sept 21. Apple & Google remove, at the request of the Russian govt, Navalny's Smart Voting app. This interfered with a number of human rights.We should be asking Apple & Google about their commitments to human rights. Cos clearly $$$$$ is the priority. https://t.co/Q9WbQzQ16E pic.twitter.com/5fH8Yawqlo— Privacy Matters (@PrivacyMatters) December 23, 2021

A machine can't love our children, but our children might love them.

Tracy Chou has been a tech activist for almost a decade. Her story reveals what it’s like to fight Silicon Valley’s establishment.

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.