The Impossibility of Automating Ambiguity | Artificial Life | MIT Press

Digital Ethics
Differences Attract: An Experimental Study of Focusing in Economic Choice* | The Economic Journal | Oxford Academic
Abstract. Several behavioural models of choice assume that decision makers place more weight on attributes where options differ more, an assumption we test in a
What If Doctors Are Always Watching, but Never There?
Remote technology could save lives by monitoring health from home or outside the hospital. It could also push patients and health care providers further apart.
The essential guide to the algorithms that run your life | New Scientist
From shaping what we read and buy to diagnosing illness, algorithms play a key role in every aspect of our lives. Here’s what you need to know about the most important ones
Bias isn't the only problem with credit scores—and no, AI can't help
The biggest-ever study of real people’s mortgage data shows that predictive tools used to approve or reject loans are less accurate for minorities.
Texas thermostats adjusted remotely during heat wave residents claim
Some residents in Texas are feeling the heat despite setting their home thermostats at a comfortable temperature.
EXCLUSIVE Google searches for new measure of skin tones to curb bias in products
Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google told Reuters this week it is developing an alternative to the industry standard method for classifying skin tones, which a growing chorus of technology researchers and dermatologists says is inadequate for assessing whether products are biased against people of color.
Mobile health and privacy: cross sectional study
Objectives To investigate whether and what user data are collected by health related mobile applications (mHealth apps), to characterise the privacy conduct of all the available mHealth apps on Google Play, and to gauge the associated risks to privacy.
Design Cross sectional study
Setting Health related apps developed for the Android mobile platform, available in the Google Play store in Australia and belonging to the medical and health and fitness categories.
Participants Users of 20 991 mHealth apps (8074 medical and 12 917 health and fitness found in the Google Play store: in-depth analysis was done on 15 838 apps that did not require a download or subscription fee compared with 8468 baseline non-mHealth apps.
Main outcome measures Primary outcomes were characterisation of the data collection operations in the apps code and of the data transmissions in the apps traffic; analysis of the primary recipients for each type of user data; presence of adverts and trackers in the app traffic; audit of the app privacy policy and compliance of the privacy conduct with the policy; and analysis of complaints in negative app reviews.
Results 88.0% (n=18 472) of mHealth apps included code that could potentially collect user data. 3.9% (n=616) of apps transmitted user information in their traffic. Most data collection operations in apps code and data transmissions in apps traffic involved external service providers (third parties). The top 50 third parties were responsible for most of the data collection operations in app code and data transmissions in app traffic (68.0% (2140), collectively). 23.0% (724) of user data transmissions occurred on insecure communication protocols. 28.1% (5903) of apps provided no privacy policies, whereas 47.0% (1479) of user data transmissions complied with the privacy policy. 1.3% (3609) of user reviews raised concerns about privacy.
Conclusions This analysis found serious problems with privacy and inconsistent privacy practices in mHealth apps. Clinicians should be aware of these and articulate them to patients when determining the benefits and risks of mHealth apps.
U.K. Privacy Chief Sounds Alarm Over Live Facial Recognition
Britain’s privacy chief issued a warning over the risks from facial recognition technology, saying people should be free to go shopping or walk around a town “without having our biometric data collected and analyzed with every step we take.”
21 States Are Now Vetting Unemployment Claims With a ‘Risky’ Facial Recognition System
ID.me has rejected some legitimate claimants in addition to fraudsters
Opinion | Google’s Privacy Backpedal Shows Why It’s So Hard Not to Be Evil
Why Google thought twice about restoring your privacy.
Experts Doubt Ethical AI Design Will Be Broadly Adopted as the Norm Within the Next Decade | Pew Research Center
A majority worries that the evolution of artificial intelligence by 2030 will continue to be primarily focused on optimizing profits and social control. Still, a portion celebrate coming AI breakthroughs that will improve life.
LAPD officers got free swag from Ring, some promoted its cameras to the public
Ring provided at least 100 LAPD officers with free devices or discounts and encouraged them to endorse and recommend its doorbell and security cameras to police and members of the public.
The Computer Girls
Checkpoints for vaccine passports
Requirements that governments and developers will need to deliver in order for any vaccine passport system to deliver societal benefit
Reema Patel on Twitter
Powerful piece from @sobia_r for @AdaLovelaceInst on minding the missing data gap when it comes to genomics data.'The underrepresentation of diverse populations in genomic datasets and studies exacerbates health inequalities.' @HealthFdn #DataDividehttps://t.co/e8QRBVDAfh— Reema Patel (@Reema__Patel) June 17, 2021
Digital ad industry accused of huge data breach
Legal action filed over volume of data shared by digital advertising firms during ad space sales.
China’s tech workers pushed to their limits by surveillance software | Financial Times
Vicious cycle of monitoring and overwork is fuelling productivity — and a backlash
Apple reportedly trialed plans for a primary care service on its own employees - The Verge
The project hasn’t moved out of a preliminary stage.
'Privacy Protecting' Car Location Data Seemingly Shows Where People Live, Work, and Go - VICE
Otonomo says its vehicle location data is privacy-protecting. The data itself says otherwise.
Australian Human Rights Commission on Twitter
Artificial intelligence offers great opportunities – but it can also do great harm. @aushumanrights’s new Human Rights and Technology Final Report recommends safeguards to protect the community as @esantow explains. Read the report at https://t.co/zRYY2XHElR. pic.twitter.com/jSvdB4K9yZ— Australian Human Rights Commission (@AusHumanRights) May 27, 2021
Supreme Court revives LinkedIn case to protect user data from web scrapers
The case could have broad ramifications for internet researchers and archivists.
Amazon will pay $62 million over deceptive delivery tips claims - Protocol — The people, power and politics of tech
The company said it would pay delivery drivers up to $25 hourly plus tips, but the FTC had alleged it kept a third of tips.
How Privacy and Disinformation Are Related | Revue
Dispatches from Editor-in-Chief Julia Angwin
Apple iPhones Can Soon Hold Your ID. Privacy Experts Are On Edge
Privacy experts worry the convenient feature will open the door to surveillance, data tracking and Apple's turning interactions involving state-issued IDs into a new revenue stream.
10 steps to educate your company on AI fairness
As companies increasingly apply artificial intelligence, they must address concerns about trust. Here are 10 practical interventions companies can employ.
10 Ways to Prevent and Manage Technical Debt—Tips from Developers | Hacker Noon
Developers deal with technical debt every day, and they know how to prevent and manage it better than anyone else. Here’s just some of what they had to say.
AI Systems Are Imperfect. Use Them With Care.
Imperfect AI systems can make imperfect decisions at massive scale.
The Questions Concerning Technology
A set of 41 questions drafted with a view to helping us draw out the moral or ethical implications of our tools.
Ep 111 Dismantling White Supremacy in Design by Antionette Carroll
The fourth of the #ShareTheMicNow episodes was created by Antionette Carroll in conversation with David Clifford the founder of Design School X and Liberatory Design, and Timothy Bardlavens co-founder of &Design and Product Design Manager at Facebook discussing Dismantling White Supremacy in Design.