Digital Ethics

absolutely horrifying: amazon’s algorithm identified a product that people were using to commit suicide. it then started to recommend additional products that made the suicide easier to executte. https://t.co/eKX4z8FOt7 pic.twitter.com/BpbvLhjoTO— maxwell (@maxwellstrachan) February 4, 2022

So The British Journal of Photography sold out its twitter account with 250000 followers into a NFT marketing account called 'art3'.They started a new account for photography. Which has 836 followers.And in doing so destroyed their reputation and reach. pic.twitter.com/KDI0HpT2fW— duckrabbit (@duckrabbitblog) February 2, 2022

Got a letter, the Police were to prosecute me for speeding! on a date I was home in a place I have never been. Called, all sorted out, but when they checked the vid it was a silver van, I have a blue Skoda. A quick look at the vehicle data would have flagged this immediately?— LinkoVitch (@Link2076) February 3, 2022

Major chains begin testing automated age-verification, to avoid the wait for staff at self-checkouts.

‎Show Made You Think, Ep 28: Bring the Crowbar. Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System by Donella Meadows - 13 Mar 2018

This video is just… so very good. #DataPrivacy #SurveillanceCapitalism #surveillance via @worldsayer https://t.co/J9bFj2cgbJ— Per Axbom (@axbom) January 31, 2022

Evan Selinger vehemently argues against the tenets of Firmin DeBrabander’s “Life After Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society.”...

In 1999, I asked David Gerrold to write a "future of computing" prediction for the magazine where I was Technology Editor. Here's what he wrote. https://t.co/UAMM0Pm4W6

@axbom Wow I've never seen this before, that is amazing that they had this vision of the future back then.

California's net neutrality law will remain in effect after industry associations lost big in court.

I took (most of) January off from writing to take a step back and observe. Writing week in and out, as I did last year, keeps one pretty close to the subject — maybe even too close. And what I no...

Machine Learning lives in an uncanny valley btw Science and Engineering.It's the worst of both worlds.We don't care about understanding, just making things "work" (bad science).We don't care if things work in the real world, just on contrived benchmarks (bad engineering).— David Krueger (@DavidSKrueger) January 29, 2022

Fingerprinting is bad. It's a term that refers to building up enough metadata about a user that you can essentially figure out who they are. JavaScript has

In interviews with AI experts, IEEE Spectrum has uncovered six real-world AI worst-case scenarios that are far more mundane than those sci-fi robot apocalypses depicted in the movies. But they’re no less dystopian. And most don’t require a malevolent dictator to bring them to full fruition.

Following the release last week of the draft National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children 2022-2032, the Law Council of Australia has

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AI pioneer says machine learning may work on test sets, but that’s a long way from real world use

The European Parliament has definitively backed major limits on behavioral advertising during a plenary vote on amendments to the pan-EU Digital Services Act (DSA). The move looks set to crank up pressure on Big Tech business models that rely on pervasive tracking and profiling of users to target a…

Facebook parent Meta Platforms removed a network of fake accounts that originated in Iran and targeted Instagram users in Scotland with content supporting Scottish independence, the company's investigators said on Thursday.

A federal judge just ordered 13yrs of targeted discovery on all communications by Sheryl Sandberg and Mark Zuckerberg related to a cover-up on their largest breach of trust in company history. I bet anyone this ends up badly for them considering they paid the FTC $5B to avoid it.

Max Schrems (NOYB) delivered a talk for UCL's Institute of Brand and Innovation Law in January 2022. Chaired by Professor Sir Robin Jacob (UCL) with an introduction by Amanda Harcourt (UCL) You can see the work of NOYB and support them at: https://noyb.eu/en

A new research collaboration between Huawei and academia suggests that a great deal of the most important current research in artificial intelligence and machine learning could be exposed to litigation as soon as it becomes commercially prominent, because the datasets that make breakthroughs possible are being distributed with invalid licenses that do not respect the […]

Searching for artificial intelligence that's more in touch with your emotions.


 
 'Not to lie about the future is impossible and one can lie about it at will' - Naum Gabo

EU police body accused of unlawfully holding information and aspiring to become an NSA-style mass surveillance agency

A new search engine needs an index of the web. And many sites don’t welcome any web crawler that isn’t Google or Bing.

This is fucking wild. Norton "Antivirus" now sneakily installs cryptomining software on your computer, and then SKIMS A COMMISSION. https://t.co/6s2otyCd78— Cory Doctorow (@doctorow) January 4, 2022

The Wire investigates claims behind the use of ‘Tek Fog’, a highly sophisticated app used by online operatives to hijack major social media and encrypted messaging platforms and amplify right-wing propaganda to a domestic audience.

The automation, and control of the resulting data, raises questions about the role of human farmers.

Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. We need to reclaim our minds while we still can