Digital Ethics

Woah. Dig down, so this WSJ "Facebook Files" report yesterday was a big deal but I've now listened to the WSJ podcast about it and it has significant additional context. If you're a journalist, regulator, lawyer, academic, influencer, you need to listen. Worth the ~20min. Why? /1— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) September 14, 2021

Deepfake researchers have long feared the day this would arrive.

How data governance technologies can democratize data sharing for community well-being - Volume 3

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From improving access to health information to aiding better representation in health systems and services, here's how digital can help close health gaps.

Email is an awful online ID that we use for almost everything.

Exclusive: National and local governments using targeted ads on search engines and social media

🔬 Research summary by Connor Wright, our Partnerships Manager. [ Original paper by Ada Lovelace Institute, AI Now Institute and Open Government Partnership] Overview: The developments in AI are never…

An internal police chief memo shows employees were directed to use ‘field interview cards’ which would then be reviewed

Exclusive: National and local governments using targeted ads on search engines and social media

Kevin Kelly is the founder of Wired Magazine and author of several books, among them The Inevitable. For Warp News he presents his case for optimism.

The City of Amsterdam has developed contractual terms for the algorithms that we purchase from suppliers and we are happy to share our knowledge.

Privacy concerns about AI systems are growing. So researchers are testing whether they can remove sensitive data without retraining the system from scratch.

Men are more likely to cause crashes, but women are more likely to die in them. That’s because car manufacturers have no incentive to safely design vehicles for women—and that has to change.

Age Appropriate Design Code mandates apps to take ‘best interests’ of child users into account

The China social credit system provides up-to-date information on the behavior of individuals and corporations across China. Learn more here.

The social network has constructed a vast infrastructure to keep toxic material off its platform. At the center of it is Accenture, the blue-chip consulting firm.

Question: Who do you rely on at your organization for data privacy expertise? Your legal team? Your security engineering team? Was "UX designer" among your first thoughts? The answer is likely no. And that's a problem.

The law represents an approach to privacy shaped by both the Holocaust and Stasi surveillance in East Germany

Email aliases are an underrated hero of digital privacy. Using an email alias protects your personal email address.

The gigantic data centers that power the internet consume vast amounts of electricity and emit as much  CO2 as the airline industry. To change that, data companies need to turn to clean energy sources and dramatically improve energy efficiency.

BREAKING: Today a court held that our case challenging Clearview AI’s privacy-destroying conduct — the capture of millions of people’s unique identifying faceprints without their knowledge or consent — can proceed.— ACLU (@ACLU) August 27, 2021

The European Union's lead data protection supervisor has recommended on Thursday that personal data such as search queries & internet browsing history should not be used for the assessment of credit scores and creditworthiness.

It plans to begin sharing them publicly next week.

The gigantic data centers that power the internet consume vast amounts of electricity and emit as much  CO2 as the airline industry. To change that, data companies need to turn to clean energy sources and dramatically improve energy efficiency.

AI-powered characters based on real people can star in thousands of videos and say anything, in any language.

Science and Engineering Ethics - A variety of approaches have appeared in academic literature and in design practice representing “ethics-first” methods. These approaches typically...