Digital Ethics

Amazon’s Alexa is causing girls with the same name the butt of teasing, jokes, even sexual harassment. Parents have written to Amazon, set up social action sites, changed their children's’ schools and even their names.

As Technology Evolves, so Does Domestic Violence: Modern-Day Tech Abuse and Possible Solutions - Author: Eva PenzeyMoog, Danielle C. Slakoff

MiDAS, now facing record claim numbers, is intentionally programmed "to make it difficult to get benefits," said attorney Anthony Paris.

The smartphone app Citizen describes itself in simple terms: a safety network that sends alerts about nearby incidents including crime.

"It’s fucking horrendous, honestly. [You're crossing] multiple lanes, busy traffic."

Who’s really on the other end of the phone?

Whistleblowers say they were forced out after flagging problems with e-commerce giant’s data security and compliance.

Critics raise transparency fears over plan to turn all smart home devices into ‘mesh network’

UC Browser, a popular web browser developed by Alibaba subsidiary UCWeb, was found to be tracking user habits on both iOS and Android, and sending the data back to company servers.

Drivers say the companies should just pay better

Amazon's experimental wireless mesh networking turns users into guinea pigs.

WhatsApp is no longer going to limit the accounts of users who do not accept the updated privacy policy, with the Facebook-owned iOS app now saying it wont be harming anyone's usage of the service for the moment.

Google misled phone makers into hiding privacy settings users liked in order to collect more location data, according to newly unredacted documents.

Salesforce has established frameworks and governance structures for ethical use of AI.

Companies offering proctoring tools that monitor students as they take online exams are now being watched themselves—by Democratic senators. Led by ...

In the pandemic-era scramble of digital education delivery, the line between public and private has been unduly blurred. Remote learning has brought one particular learning tool — remote invigilance, or more colloquially “online proctoring” — to the fore.

Despite students’ complaints and the coming return to in-person learning, Proctorio and its rivals are betting on a lucrative future.

The legal identity of on-demand platform workers has become a central site of conflict between labor and industry. Amidst growing economic inequality, labor rep

The firm claims to have over 3 billion faces in its database, many controversially acquired from public web sources and social media.

Just 6% of respondents said they ensure AI is used ethically and responsibly by making development teams diverse.

Co-authors: Guillaume Saint-Jacques, Amir Sepehri, Nicole Li, and Igor Perisic

Last week, "Marina" - a piano teacher who publishes free lessons her Piano Keys Youtube channel - celebrated her fifth anniversary by announcing that she was quitting Youtube because her meager wages were being stolen by fraudsters.https://t.co/6tZpJpcyt51/ pic.twitter.com/uDKWcpbVtK— Cory Doctorow (@doctorow) May 8, 2021

Technology has blurred all sorts of boundaries we used to take for granted. One we still treat as sacrosanct is the one around our own minds, which allows us to think for ourselves and keep those thoughts private. But technology may now be challenging this mental independence, too, with potential implications for our autonomy.

Using social science to develop robust analyses of AI systems and their impact.

The Data Delusion: Protecting Individual Data Isn't Enough When The Harm is Collective DOWNLOAD (PDF) Author: Martin Tisné, Managing Director, Luminate Editor: Marietje Schaake, International Policy Director, Cyber Policy Center The threat of digital discrimination On March 17, 2018, questions about data privacy exploded with the scandal of the previously unknown consulting

The European Parliament has adopted legislation to allow EU consumers to defend their rights collectively. The measure, which is to become law within two years, aims to give individuals more power against corporations.

Brands are seeking new ways to customize messages. A startup that gathers data on when you pick up your phone, or when you go out on a run, can help.

Protecting individual data is not enough when the harms are collective

We gave up our privacy to fight Covid-19, can we get it back? An FT film starring Lydia West and Arthur Darvill in collaboration with Sonia Friedman Productions and supported by Luminate. An interrogation scene explores how Covid-19 has exposed the tension between the need for data to track and trace, and the right to privacy and justice

A study of 10,000 images found bias in what the system chooses to highlight. Twitter has stopped using it on mobile, and will consider ditching it on the web.