Digital Ethics

The long read: Social media was supposed to liberate us, but for many people it has proved addictive, punishing and toxic. What keeps us hooked?

By Julia Gamolina, cover portrait by Maggie Peters Jessica Helfand is an artist, designer, and writer. She is a co-founder of Design Observer, and the co-host of two podcasts:  The Observatory , and  The Design of Business | The Business of Design . She has

Google's hate-speech detection tool Perspective, which Alphabet subsidiary Jigsaw helped create, has become racially biased, according to a new study.

Feature ‘disconnects’ data from a user’s account and shows extent of tracking apparatus

There is an urgency to AI ethics & accountability work, because there are currently real people being affected.AI is not just some futuristic issue.@rajiinio @DataInstituteSF pic.twitter.com/hqUpQYAxvS— Rachel Thomas (@math_rachel) August 20, 2019

The nature of how organizations capture and store the public’s biometric data, such as fingerprints and images of faces, came under renewed scrutiny this week by security experts and regulators.

Investigation uncovers widespread use in museums and shopping centres

Ethical codes, ethics committees, and respect for autonomy have been key to the development of medical ethics — elements that digital ethics would be advised to emulate.

Exclusive: Hannah Fry says ethical pledge needed in tech fields that will shape future

Facial recognition technology has grown tremendously in both capability and availability over the last few years. It can help us solve difficult problems,

The secrecy surrounding AI products makes even basic information about them a scandal.

Facebook Inc. this week confirmed that it ran a program to allow contractors to listen to and transcribe some users’ audio clips. The social network said that the only people who were affected were those who agreed to have their audio messages transcribed.

The first Swiss think tank for digital ethics explores the risks of digitization.

Artificial intelligence will be the next GDPR.

Sexual harassment. Hate speech. Employee walkouts. The Silicon Valley giant is trapped in a war against itself. And there’s no end in sight.

Fingerprints, facial recognition and other personal information from Biostar 2 discovered on publicly accessible database

“There is something specifically exhausting about receiving sexual advances and explicit messages on LinkedIn.”

No, Duolingo. I didn’t make you sad. Because you don’t have emotions. You are an app. A corporate non-feeling entity. And the reason I wasn’t using you to learn French was because I was actually IN FRANCE. Which is an even better app for learning French. Now piss off, in French. pic.twitter.com/K4Xs7n26AS— Matt Haig (@matthaig1) August 12, 2019

The first Swiss think tank for digital ethics explores the risks of digitization.

Affected vendors include the likes of Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, ASRock, AMI, Gigabyte, Realtek, Huawei, and more.

The problems of Normal today are embedded in history.

In Cook County, Illinois, 99 percent of defendants deemed ‘high risk’ for pretrial violence don’t reoffend.

Debate may be raging about government uses of facial-recognition technology, but the technology already is an accepted part of Americans’ everyday lives. Now hundreds of summer camps across the United States have tethered their rustic lakefronts to facial-recognition software, allowing parents an increasingly omniscient view into their kids’ home away from home.

We keep deploying new technologies that rely on data to fly airplanes, drive cars, manage security, conduct surgery, etc.

More than a year after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook is still struggling to protect user data.

The technology to create fully synthetic vidoes is rapidly improving. Teaching the five Cs of critical consumption is becoming increasingly important.

1/ If you care about surveillance, you really should listen to @geoffreyfowler on @nprfreshair discuss what he’s learned from investigating the secret life of data. https://t.co/5Pb7a0hibz Here’s why. Spoilers. Surveillance sounds scary, very Big Brother. But many surveillance— Evan Selinger (@EvanSelinger) August 2, 2019

The Google machine learning company trumpeted its success in predicting a deadly kidney condition, but its results raise questions around…

Once, it was easy to be obscure. Technology has ended that.