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Digital Ethics
To Build a Better Future, Designers Need to Start Saying ‘No’
Reflections on the transformative potential of refusal as a method in the design of technology
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AI researchers detail obstacles to data sharing in Africa | VentureBeat
Coauthors argue that failure to consider ethical concerns associated with obstacles to data sharing in Africa could cause irreparable harm.
Major Universities are Using Race as a “High Impact Predictor” of Student Success – The Markup
Students, professors, and education experts worry that that’s pushing Black students in particular out of math and science
AI ethics research conference suspends Google sponsorship | VentureBeat
The ACM Conference for Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT) decided to pause its sponsorship relationship with Google.
What is an “algorithm”? It depends whom you ask
How One State Managed to Actually Write Rules on Facial Recognition - The New York Times
Massachusetts is one of the first states to put legislative guardrails around the use of facial recognition technology in criminal investigations.
Facebook’s Laughable Campaign Against Apple Is Really Against Users
Update as of Feb 17, 2021: This blogpost has been updated to add information about reports of litigation from FacebookFacebook has recently launched a campaign touting itself as the protector of
AI needs to face up to its invisible-worker problem
Many of the most successful and widely used machine-learning models are trained with the help of thousands of low-paid gig workers. Millions of people around the world earn money on platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk, which allow companies and researchers to outsource small tasks to online crowdworkers. According to one estimate, more than a million people…
The Tragedy of Droids in Star Wars - YouTube
It’s not really a Star Wars story unless there’s a lovable or memorable droid stealing the spotlight. But, when you really stop and think about it, there’s a...
Cory Doctorow #BLM on Twitter
When it's railroading time, you get railroads. When the railroads turn into the personal satrapies of rail-barons, you get trustbusters.A couple decades ago, it was online service time. We had the users, the telcoms systems, the computers, the modems, so we got platforms.1/— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) February 20, 2021
Facebook reported revenue it ‘should have never made’, manager claimed
Lawsuit cites product executive’s qualms over figures provided to advertisers
Facebook’s Supreme Court | The New Yorker
Mark Zuckerberg has outsourced crucial decisions about free speech to a new body called the Oversight Board. In collaboration with Radiolab, we look at how and why it came to be.
Visibility Is A Trap
Can you report on surveillance tools without using surveillance tools?
Why Is Facebook Rejecting These Fashion Ads?
The automated intelligence systems of Instagram and Facebook have repeatedly denied ads placed by small businesses that make stylish clothing for people with disabilities.
Business case purpose
In business, “purpose” is the new black. It has become very fashionable for consultants and business professors to encourage companies to ask “why” they are in business. What is their…
Creative Good: Why I'm losing faith in UX
Digital design increasingly exploits users.
Why Won’t Nike Use the Word Disabled to Promote Its New Go FlyEase Shoe?
Disability is not a bad word.
The Rise of Responsible AI
“Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do”, these are the words of Potter Stewart, an American Lawyer and Judge. It is 100% true and makes more sense today as we are surrounded by technology and connected virtually with everything and everyone on the…
Listening to Black Women: The Innovation Tech Can't Crack | WIRED
Tech creators and journalists ignore the insights and experiences of Black women—and fail to see the harm of their "innovations."
How Amazon Swindled Its Own Drivers, Got Caught, and Ended Up Richer
The company’s $62 million FTC settlement shows ‘corporate crime pays’
Privacy and digital ethics after the pandemic | Nature Electronics
The increasingly prominent — and inescapable — role of digital technologies during the coronavirus pandemic has been accompanied by concerning trends in privacy and digital ethics. But more robust protection of our rights in the digital realm is possible in the future.
Police helicopters circling a city are environmental terrorism
Five artists and scientists are tracking police helicopter surveillance's effects on Los Angeles's residents
Here’s a Way to Learn if Facial Recognition Systems Used Your Photos - The New York Times
An online tool targets only a small slice of what’s out there, but may open some eyes to how widely artificial intelligence research fed on personal images.
Zack Whittaker on Twitter
Enjoying @joinClubhouse so far. But in order to send invites, it requires access to my contacts. There's zero chance of that happening. No reporter should, especially if it compromises sources. If you want your social network to grow and not compromise privacy, find another way! pic.twitter.com/sumCcNRwKn— Zack Whittaker (@zackwhittaker) January 30, 2021
Spotify secures horrifying patent to monitor users' speech
The streaming platform Spotify has secured a horrifying new patent to monitor the background noise and speech of its users.
Tim Cook May Have Just Ended Facebook
Looks like it's no more Mr. Nice Guy.
When Your Heartbeat Becomes Data: Benefits and Risk of Biometrics
Biometrics technology goes far beyond wrist bands. Consider how heartbeat readers and more might impact the security of your enterprise.
Facebook and Apple Are Beefing Over the Future of the Internet | WIRED
It turns out Tim Cook blames Mark Zuckerberg for undermining democracy too.