Digital Ethics

Dark patterns are as old as the internet itself. For over 30 years, the web has served as a breeding ground for manipulative design—and we’ve been attempting to stop it for nearly as long. In an impressive act of foresight, Rolf Molich and Jakob Nielsen of the Nielsen Norman Group started creati

You might not even realize these things are causing anxiety.

Nomophobia is the fear of being without your phone or without cellular service. While not recognized as an official disorder, it is a growing problem.

Ed Bridges, 37, from Cardiff, brought a legal challenge after having his image captured twice.

Dropshippers buy cheap products from China and then pay internet celebrities to promote them.

This paper examines the ethical and legal issues arising from the closure of a data-rich firms such as Facebook and provides four policy recommendations to mitigate the resulting harms to society.

Quantifying the accuracy of vision/facial recognition on identifying PPE masks

If engineers don’t apply ethical thinking to the design process, regulation will be required in the future.

A four-year effort to monitor parolees in Indiana with bracelets and use AI algorithms to predict their behavior raises red flags.

The public deserves to know the extent to which Apple employees have been listening to our private conversations and intimate moments

At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, contact tracing was considered the best hope for getting people back to offices and schools safely without a vaccine. The tech industry was optimistic that apps would provide a faster, more effective alternative to the usual painstaking human process of calling and interviewing the networks of infected people to figure out possible sources of exposure.

Facebook’s employees and fact-checking partners say they are left in the dark about how the company decides what content stays up and what comes down.

Researchers at security firm Check Point uncovered a flaw that could have allowed attackers to extract personal information from Alexa accounts.

Researchers call for new regulations to protect users, and society, in case of collapse

Victory in world-first legal challenge hailed as huge step in fight against oppressive surveillance tool

Pinterest has always been about aspiration. It is a platform for sharing beautiful images, curating galleries of an idealized world. Users…

Researchers have demonstrated that they can fool a modern face recognition system into seeing someone who isn’t there. A team from the cybersecurity firm McAfee set up the attack against a facial recognition system similar to those currently used at airports for passport verification. By using machine learning, they created an image that looked like…

Telecom companies are at the core of the world’s communication universe. Since the coronavirus pandemic, they’ve been passing even more sensitive data to governments. It’s time they were held as accountable as Google and Facebook.

#IwanttoseeNyome outcry after social media platform repeatedly removes pictures of Nyome Nicholas-Williams

Algorithms routinely come up with ‘recommendations’ for anti-vax ‘bestsellers’ or juices that can cure cancer

Facebook also removed hundreds of fake accounts linked to conservative media outlet The Epoch Times.

School’s in session.

Los Angeles Football Club wants to “move everything to face,” while the New York Mets are testing the system on players and staff.

Researchers at the University of Chicago want you to be able to post selfies without worrying that the next Clearview AI will use them to identify you.

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How Facebook decides which ads to display on your News Feed.

Adrian Lovett, President and CEO of the Web Foundation, last week participated in the launch of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Roadmap for Digital Cooperation. Adrian called for universal internet access to be made an urgent priority, paired with action to ensure our digital technologies are

Nine philosophers explore the various issues and questions raised by the newly released language model, GPT-3, in this edition of Philosophers On, guest edited by Annette Zimmermann. Introduction Annette Zimmermann, guest editor GPT-3, a powerful, 175 billion parameter language model developed recently by OpenAI, has been galvanizing public debate and controversy. As the MIT Technology Review puts it: “OpenAI’s new language generator GPT-3 is shockingly good—and completely mindless”. Parts of the technology community hope (and fear) that GPT-3 could brings us one step closer to the hypothet...

A study of young people finds a fine line between getting results and becoming "obsessed".

The social network doesn’t just ‘hold a mirror up to society’— it does something much more powerful and concerning