Digital Ethics

När jag förra helgen försökte få tag på Covid-test sa butikspersonalen att de slutat ta in det pga "Covid är slut nu". Samtidigt i Shanghai: https://t.co/QU3mLvrCXF— Marcin 🌈✨🖤 (@dekaminski) April 10, 2022

Experts attending the 2021 Digital Ethics Summit spoke out against the idea that regulation will stifle technological innovation, arguing that setting clear rules will produce more ethical innovation.

The Sam Altman–founded crypto startup has said it aims to alleviate global poverty, but so far it has angered the very people it claims to be helping.

‎Program: Ethics for a Changing World, Avsnitt: The Robots of Humanity: Intelligence and Existential Despair – 21 mars 2022

The Yandex.Food leak implicates thousands of Russian users, including military personnel

Different kinds of people are necessary everywhere but maybe especially in the UX field. Only hiring people with very high IQ is a really bad strategy. Also: so ableist. 😣Here is a direct link to the ad: https://t.co/vWcqOFDKZR https://t.co/5B2tUPBD0v— Kolombiken (@kolombiken) April 2, 2022

50+ Resources for Aspiring Technology Policy Professionals

NEW YORK (AP) — A controversial face recognition company that's built a massive photographic dossier of the world's people for use by police, national governments and — most recently — the Ukrainian military is now planning to offer its technology to banks and other private businesses.

What happens when the News Feed breaks?

BBC Sounds have changed their app branding. This may seem trivial but that means the appearance of the #CarPlay user interface changes. The middle button...

An FTC Workshop Panel Discussion Recap

In their own words, former Tesla employees describe what they call a racist work environment that led California to file a civil rights lawsuit against the company.

Potential uses for the data have caused concern among experts who say security and privacy could be at risk

The government taps into a vast global array of data sources through partnerships with both foreign and domestic firms.

The information architecture of ethics

Is it racist or problematic to use the metaphor "dark" or "darkness" to describe something that is bad, sad, evil, or negative? Examples and arguments for why.

At Intuit, content is why customers use QuickBooks, TurboTax, and other products. Our content design and strategy standards help customers succeed.

And why the original is still the best. Plus: Minecraft robot studies

We know we should do a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) but how do we effectively identify the risks and potential impacts of the data processing we're planning, in a new project, service offer or policy? In this short video we explain 3 techniques to get your imagination working on the ways your processing could impact people in ways you might easily have missed. Presented by Clare Paterson, Director & Consultant at CP Data Protection, providing clear & practical data protection advice & training.

‎Program: The Good Robot, Avsnitt: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun on Facebook ‘Friendship’ and Predicting the Future – 8 mars 2022

Some Thoughts on the “Inspiresting”

Just published: How Nir Eyal's habit books are dangeroushttps://t.co/vpDRLi5AkZ— Per Axbom (@axbom) September 17, 2019

Random thoughts about an ancient design process

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

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