Digital Ethics

Timnit Gebru says regulators need to provide whistleblowers working on artificial intelligence with fresh protections backed up by tough enforcement.

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Once self-driving cars are widespread, while each individual unlikely situation is, by definition, very unlikely, there are so many possible scenarios in the world of driving and so many cars that some self-driving car somewhere is likely to encounter one of them at some point. pic.twitter.com/OeS0dYKNBu— Abeba Birhane (@Abebab) September 18, 2021

The Wall Street Journal's "Facebook Files" has been widely lauded. But every article in the series also contains Facebook tracking scripts, and this clear conflict of interest (along with the WSJ's financial relationship with Facebook) is never mentioned. https://t.co/pOpKENLv7v— Pinboard (@Pinboard) September 17, 2021

Employees raised alarms about how the site is used in developing countries, where its user base is already huge and expanding. In many instances Facebook’s response is inadequate or nothing at all.

To build the metaverse, Facebook needs us to get used to smart glasses.

Our emotional responses evolved in a very different world. In the online era, that makes us more vulnerable to privacy risks

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), which with 420,000 members forms the largest engineering association in the world, published a standard on Wednesday for taking ethical values ​​into account when designing technical systems. ... Read more

Too many councils and advisory boards still consist mostly of people based in Europe or the United States.

Woah. Dig down, so this WSJ "Facebook Files" report yesterday was a big deal but I've now listened to the WSJ podcast about it and it has significant additional context. If you're a journalist, regulator, lawyer, academic, influencer, you need to listen. Worth the ~20min. Why? /1— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) September 14, 2021

Deepfake researchers have long feared the day this would arrive.

How data governance technologies can democratize data sharing for community well-being - Volume 3

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From improving access to health information to aiding better representation in health systems and services, here's how digital can help close health gaps.

Email is an awful online ID that we use for almost everything.

Exclusive: National and local governments using targeted ads on search engines and social media

🔬 Research summary by Connor Wright, our Partnerships Manager. [ Original paper by Ada Lovelace Institute, AI Now Institute and Open Government Partnership] Overview: The developments in AI are never…

An internal police chief memo shows employees were directed to use ‘field interview cards’ which would then be reviewed

Exclusive: National and local governments using targeted ads on search engines and social media

Kevin Kelly is the founder of Wired Magazine and author of several books, among them The Inevitable. For Warp News he presents his case for optimism.

The City of Amsterdam has developed contractual terms for the algorithms that we purchase from suppliers and we are happy to share our knowledge.

Privacy concerns about AI systems are growing. So researchers are testing whether they can remove sensitive data without retraining the system from scratch.

Men are more likely to cause crashes, but women are more likely to die in them. That’s because car manufacturers have no incentive to safely design vehicles for women—and that has to change.

Age Appropriate Design Code mandates apps to take ‘best interests’ of child users into account

The China social credit system provides up-to-date information on the behavior of individuals and corporations across China. Learn more here.

The social network has constructed a vast infrastructure to keep toxic material off its platform. At the center of it is Accenture, the blue-chip consulting firm.

Question: Who do you rely on at your organization for data privacy expertise? Your legal team? Your security engineering team? Was "UX designer" among your first thoughts? The answer is likely no. And that's a problem.

The law represents an approach to privacy shaped by both the Holocaust and Stasi surveillance in East Germany

Email aliases are an underrated hero of digital privacy. Using an email alias protects your personal email address.