Dark patterns are as old as the internet itself. For over 30 years, the web has served as a breeding ground for manipulative design—and we’ve been attempting to stop it for nearly as long. In an impressive act of foresight, Rolf Molich and Jakob Nielsen of the Nielsen Norman Group started creati
What if Facebook goes down? Ethical and legal considerations for the demise of big tech
This paper examines the ethical and legal issues arising from the closure of a data-rich firms such as Facebook and provides four policy recommendations to mitigate the resulting harms to society.
Crime-Tracking App Citizen Now Alerts Users to Infection Risk
At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, contact tracing was considered the best hope for getting people back to offices and schools safely without a vaccine. The tech industry was optimistic that apps would provide a faster, more effective alternative to the usual painstaking human process of calling and interviewing the networks of infected people to figure out possible sources of exposure.
The hack that could make face recognition think someone else is you
Researchers have demonstrated that they can fool a modern face recognition system into seeing someone who isn’t there. A team from the cybersecurity firm McAfee set up the attack against a facial recognition system similar to those currently used at airports for passport verification. By using machine learning, they created an image that looked like…
The original Big Tech is working closer than ever with governments to combat coronavirus – with no scrutiny
Telecom companies are at the core of the world’s communication universe. Since the coronavirus pandemic, they’ve been passing even more sensitive data to governments. It’s time they were held as accountable as Google and Facebook.
This Tool Could Protect Your Photos From Facial Recognition
Researchers at the University of Chicago want you to be able to post selfies without worrying that the next Clearview AI will use them to identify you.
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Adrian Lovett, President and CEO of the Web Foundation, last week participated in the launch of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Roadmap for Digital Cooperation. Adrian called for universal internet access to be made an urgent priority, paired with action to ensure our digital technologies are