Digital Ethics

Design is about power. Someone pays for the work and they have their own reasons for why they are paying. How this is translated and converted into specific decisions is varied, but in the end, it's the person in charge, and who influenced them, that defines the likely results.— Scott Berkun (@berkun) November 27, 2019

The employee-only tool, created around 2015 and 2016, used Facebook's vast collection of facial data to automatically recognize people.

Doing the right thing can be hard when it’s bad for business.

A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents reveals the operations manual for running the mass detention camps in Xinjiang and exposed the mechanics of the region’s system of mass surveillance.

An algorithm deduced the sexuality of people on a dating site with up to 91% accuracy, raising tricky ethical questions

BREAKING: We at ICIJ have obtained a NEW trove of highly classified Chinese govt documents, including the operations manual for China's concentration camps.I served as ICIJ’s lead reporter for the China Cables, with 17 media partners from 14 countries.https://t.co/l1mMVajLVQ— B. Allen-Ebrahimian (@BethanyAllenEbr) November 24, 2019

Employees will embrace innovation if they feel they are in control of new technologies

Accepting an award from the Anti-Defamation League, the comedian called Facebook “the greatest propaganda machine in history.”

Way back when you took your driving test and got your license, someone somewhere gave you a lecture about responsibility. Maybe it was your parents, the driving instructor, or the DMV tester. You were in charge of the car, and therefore it was your responsibility to not crash it.

This is a crib of a talk that Data & Society Founder and President danah boyd gave at the Online News Association conference in Austin…

The police department held on to the fingerprint records of thousands of children charged as juvenile delinquents in violation of New York law.

As the information gap between experts and non-experts narrows, it is increasingly important that experts learn to give advice to non-experts in a way that is e

Even those who’ve tracked technology will be chilled to their core by Zuboff’s new book.

The findings speak to a bigger problem in the development of automated systems: algorithmic bias.

The road to hell is paved by promises of convenience. I mean, sure we live in a society of ultra control, but it's fRiCtiOnLeSS ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://t.co/CbsnqxVqfh— Jathan Sadowski (@jathansadowski) November 14, 2019

A man's smart home is his castle (doctrine), which he has an obligation to arm and defend.In these trying times, we need a president who can promise us the simple things: a Ring on every door and an anti-personnel drone in every garage.https://t.co/20XI3SNuRG— Jathan Sadowski (@jathansadowski) November 13, 2019

Company has confirmed system bug in the latest version of the iOS app, and said it is submitting a fix to Apple

Facebook has yet again come under fire for invading its member's privacy. The app has been found to activate an iOS user's camera without their knowledge while scrolling through the platform.

Dawn Song, an expert in computer security and trustworthy artificial intelligence, is working on making that vision a reality.

Power in AI is like gravity, an invisible force that influences every consideration of ethics in artificial intelligence.

Intersectional Accuracy Differences in Gender Classification

The New York Times is launching an ongoing examination of privacy. We’ll dig into the ideas, history and future of how our information navigates the digital ecosystem and what’s at stake.

Dottie Lux has been called ‘the real names crusader’ for helping fight back against a Facebook policy that queer users say is discriminatory

“The larger point is that it’s unaccountable and opaque, and Apple doesn’t really care.”

Don’t just give away your privacy to the likes of Google and Facebook – protect it, or you disempower us all

Computer scientists have developed an algorithm that can pick out almost any American in databases supposedly stripped of personal information.