Digital Ethics

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Limiting access to personal data by employees

Uber released an app update that tracks users 24/7, even when they're not using the service. Do you trust them to use their God View power for good?

Cab startup’s former forensic investigator Samuel Ward Spangenberg claims he was fired from the company after blowing whistle on lack of security

How my food sensitivity led me to realize the risk of search suggestions

Move follows criticism that its promotional films reinforced ‘white saviour’ stereotypes

Users with devices in unsupported languages, also including Portuguese and Italian, just see a blank screen

This is a disturbing development.Last Friday, Facebook sent a cease-and-desist letter to two NYU researchers (@LauraEdelson2 and Damon McCoy), demanding that they shut down their research into political ads and disinformation on FB’s platform.https://t.co/ksBVmqV27K— Alex Abdo (@AlexanderAbdo) October 23, 2020

The worst part about the Oculus Quest 2 news is that most people buying one are new to VR, and are unaware of how much their biometric data says about them. To them, it's "who cares if Facebook knows I'm playing Beat Saber?" since that's the level of tracking they're used to 1/11— Danny Bittman (@DannyBittman) October 25, 2020

This is a jaw-dropping paragraph. https://t.co/ix4JFLCZJe pic.twitter.com/QFl5MXoqPY— Kashmir Hill (@kashhill) October 25, 2020

The company is demanding that a New York University research project cease collecting data about its political-ad-targeting practices, setting up a fight with academics seeking to study the platform without the company’s permission.

We're announcing additional, significant product and enforcement updates that will increase context and encourage more thoughtful consideration before Tweets are amplified.

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

Good Research provides research services including experience research, qualitative and quantitative research services

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