Digital Ethics

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

​Oriini Kaipara, 37, who has a moko kauae, a traditional lower chin tattoo worn by Māori women, read Newshub Live's 6pm news bulletin in New Zealand on Monday.

Exclusive: Months of immigration documents and COVID-19 lab results were left on an unprotected server.

So long as algorithms are trained on racist historical data and outdated values, there will be no opportunities for change.

I was driving 70 mph on the edge of downtown St. Louis when the exploit began to take hold.

Companies have sprouted up to help others navigate the varied laws around the world governing websites.

The Markup, through public records requests, found more than 20 public agencies using the sometimes-controversial software

Facebook employees repeatedly warned of the role resharing content plays and offered myriad solutions only to see their suggestions ignored, documents show.

AI Ethics job listings are ignoring the humanities and social science skills that might actually help critically examine how data is collected.

(This text is very long. Maybe too long. You can find a PDF and an EPUB of it below.The current version of this text will always live at https://web3.tante.cc) By tante tante@tante.ccVersion 1.0Date: Dec 17th 2021License: CC-BY-SA 4.0 Introduction I had hoped that I wouldn’t have to write this thing, that blockchains and NFTs and […]

Just re-upping this from Sept 21. Apple & Google remove, at the request of the Russian govt, Navalny's Smart Voting app. This interfered with a number of human rights.We should be asking Apple & Google about their commitments to human rights. Cos clearly $$$$$ is the priority. https://t.co/Q9WbQzQ16E pic.twitter.com/5fH8Yawqlo— Privacy Matters (@PrivacyMatters) December 23, 2021

A machine can't love our children, but our children might love them.