Digital Ethics

The surveillance-capitalist giant fired some of its most popular researchers—and revealed its true colors in the process.

Today we call anyone with a flip phone a Luddite. But the term has radical origins.

The Chinese government plans to launch its Social Credit System in 2020. The aim? To judge the trustworthiness – or otherwise – of its 1.3 billion residents

Three years ago, the company began building "responsible AI." This is the story of how it failed.

We must stand together now, or the precedent we set for the field of AI ethics bodes a grim future for us all.

By scraping the web for photos and extracting unique biometric information, Clearview AI violates privacy and chills protected political speech, a lawsuit says.

Recommendations feature also pushed anti-vaccination and antisemitic material, watchdog says

Delivery fleets are creating fears of a world where people dodge heavy, fast-moving droids.

Neil tackles the fallacies underpinning the trope that Internet regulation should be about making the online world "as safe as the offline world".

The company launched an ad campaign that shows just how worried it is about Apple's upcoming privacy changes.

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A growing industry wants to scrutinize the algorithms that govern our lives—but it needs teeth

This paper is the first in a series of case studies that investigate how companies have begun to incorporate ethical thinking into the development of technology. It focuses on Microsoft Corporation and will be followed by papers describing efforts in other companies.

Secure cloud storage firm pCloud looked at the new Apple privacy labels featured in the App Store, analyzing ‘Date used to Track You’, ‘Third Party Advertising’, and ‘Developer’s Advertising or Marketing’.

Clubhouse says that notifications are an important part of its service. Some users say the app sends far too many.

Facial assessment tools rely on exploiting some of our deepest vulnerabilities all in the name of letting us buy our way to beauty.

Reflections on the transformative potential of refusal as a method in the design of technology

Coauthors argue that failure to consider ethical concerns associated with obstacles to data sharing in Africa could cause irreparable harm.

Students, professors, and education experts worry that that’s pushing Black students in particular out of math and science

The ACM Conference for Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT) decided to pause its sponsorship relationship with Google.

Massachusetts is one of the first states to put legislative guardrails around the use of facial recognition technology in criminal investigations.

Update as of Feb 17, 2021: This blogpost has been updated to add information about reports of litigation from FacebookFacebook has recently launched a campaign touting itself as the protector of

Many of the most successful and widely used machine-learning models are trained with the help of thousands of low-paid gig workers. Millions of people around the world earn money on platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk, which allow companies and researchers to outsource small tasks to online crowdworkers. According to one estimate, more than a million people…