Digital Ethics

Sources tell us the platform tweaked its code to help right-wing publishers and throttle sites like Mother Jones

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Avoiding drones' prying eyes can be as complicated as donning a high-tech hoodie and as simple as ducking under a tree.

Avoiding drones' prying eyes can be as complicated as donning a high-tech hoodie and as simple as ducking under a tree.

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

Meet Barry: his sole purpose in life is to listen patiently, and then protest or sob a little as you fire him from an imaginary job in virtual reality. Disposable hero: He was created by Talespin, a company that offers virtual reality workplace training. Barry and other VR characters were developed to help teach people…

The tech activist on his new sci-fi novel and why we mustn’t treat the moral downsides of social media as a necessary evil

Privacy advocates warn that the Ring Always Home Cam and Amazon One both normalize aggressive new forms of data collection.

Disinformation campaigns used to require a lot of human effort, but artificial intelligence will take them to a whole new level.

Facebook said the onion-seed ad had been removed for breaking its rules on "products with overtly sexual positioning."

Just spoke to @npr about what I’m now calling “content moderation-washing”: when platforms make a show of good citizenship by a. making an exceptional new policy b. enforced by the least empowered, most precarious workers that c. is relatively easy to implement.— Sarah T. Roberts (@ubiquity75) October 3, 2020

I want to create a repository of some of the more relevant threads I've created over the years all in one easier-to-find spot, so here you go. Thread-ception. A thread of threads.For all your privacy, law, tech, and terrible movie needs.— Vampiri-Calli Sucking Up Your Data (@Iwillleavenow) September 27, 2020

A survey of 2,200+ global business and IT leaders shows how organizations can leverage the technologies driving a data revolution.

The ProctorU software— even the Review+ version— is harmful and invasive to students. pic.twitter.com/YsqampMZco— Devon Cantwell (@devon_cantwell) September 30, 2020

This will be interesting

Given that Facebook’s Community Standards Enforcement Report (CSER) is considered the industry gold standard, it may seem counterproductive to criticize it. But for outsiders wishing to assess Facebook’s enforcement of its rules the CSER provides little value. (1) https://t.co/4A7CayDcU9— Rafiq Copeland (@RafiqCopeland) September 28, 2020

Fixing Facebook’s Community Standards Enforcement Report

James Melville explains why slavery isn't just a historic issue of statues and how your mobile phone contributes to the modern enslavement of 40 million people

The second annual CyFyAfrica 2019, The Conference on Technology, Innovation, and Society [1] took place in Tangier, Morocco, 7 – 9 June 2019. It was a vibrant, diverse and dynamic gathering …

Apparently losing rights to data and legal recourse is not enough of a reason to inspect online contracts. So how can websites get users to read the fine print?

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A 6,600-word internal memo from a fired Facebook data scientist details how the social network knew about specific examples of global political manipulation — and failed to act.

We've been trying to teach "ethics" for years. Teaching AI ethics to organizations is proving to be just as problematic. Yet as the urgency of ethical AI increases, we need a way forward. What are the options?