Digital Ethics

Its popular Ring smart doorbells mean more cameras on more doorsteps, where surveillance footage used to be rare.

The NYPD accidentally released info related to its use of facial recognition because (WAIT FOR IT) an automated system used to redact documents before release didn't work (for the second time in three months). THERE'S A MESSAGE IN HERE SOMEWHERE...🔮https://t.co/QZKVvytlpI— Meredith Whittaker (@mer__edith) July 22, 2019

By aggregating data from geotagged posts and stories, Who's in Town can paint a detailed picture of the habits and haunts of anyone with a Instagram account.

Learn more about what deepfake videos are, how you can identify them and whose job it is to verify content.

A new study has found that consumers show greater loyalty and spend more with businesses which can show they engage in ethical AI practices.

The smart watches use chips developed and designed by BeiDou, a Chinese satellite navigation system, to pinpoint a child’s position within 10 meters.The news: Seventeen thousand students at 60 elementary schools in Guangzhou received fancy new gadgets for their wrists last week, according to the Guangzhou Daily (link in Chinese).

Technology has no ethics - but we must! Futurist Gerd Leonhard at Netapp Insights #digitalethics https://t.co/7Q8DfR7BSU pic.twitter.com/nBRUNDKXKT— Gerd Leonhard (@gleonhard) July 16, 2019

The digital world can be a thorny place to navigate. We explore some of the ethical challenges posed by the digital age, and why it's down to charities to show the way forward as much as they do in the analogue world.

A new study suggests companies are employing emotion-sensing facial recognition technology that is based on flawed science.

Emotion recognition is a hot new area, with numerous companies peddling products that claim to be able to read people’s internal emotional states, and AI researchers looking to improve computers’ ability to do so. This is done through voice analysis, body language analysis, gait analysis, eye tracking, and remote measurement of physiological signs like pulse and breathing rates. Most of all, though, it’s done through analysis of facial expressions.A new study, however, strongly suggests that these products are built on a bed of intellectual quicksand.The key question is whether human emotio...

When 21-year-old Brandon Andrew Clark posted a series of graphic images on Sunday of the slain corpse of 17-year-old Bianca Devins to Instagram and Discord, users immediately began spreading the gory pictures online, often alongside brutal, misogynist commentary. Some said the victim, an ‘e-girl’ who was popular on 4Chan, deserved it, and others called for even more violence against women. Clark, who appears to have live-posted the murder itself on Instagram—a series of posts reportedly showed the body, the road near the crime scene, and an act of bloody self-harm—took the time to change hi...

Startups are importing and imposing AI systems founded on individualistic and capitalist drives

Ethics washing is unethical, but some AI companies aren't afraid to engage in the practice. Here are some ways to avoid it.

FaceApp has sparked fresh concerns for its ambiguous terms and conditions that grant the company a "perpetual" license to use uploaded photos for commercial purposes.

Apple has been accused of violating its own App Store guidelines within the new Apple News app.

The world is designed against the elderly, writes Don Norman, 83-year-old author of the industry bible Design of Everyday Things and a former Apple VP.

Amazon.com Inc has a promotion for U.S. shoppers on Prime Day, the 48-hour marketing blitz that started Monday: Earn $10 of credit if you let Amazon track the websites you visit.

‘Sight’ rocked the internet in 2012. Now its creators are back for a sequel.

The Federal Trade Commission voted this week to approve a roughly $5 billion settlement with Facebook over a long-running probe into the tech giant’s privacy missteps, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement with Facebook over the company's 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal.

We've seen every episode of 'Black Mirror' and have a feeling this won't end well.

There’s a compelling argument that by installing stalkerware on their kids’ phones, parents are exposing the kids to more hazards—misuse of data, breaches, hackers, predators, & any companies looking to profit from their data—than they are protecting them from.— One Ring (doorbell) to surveil them all... (@hypervisible) July 12, 2019

Parents can use Life360 to track their teen’s location in real time. The company can use that data to sell car insurance.

A crackdown on how government agencies can use the technology needs to consider how companies do, too.

Facebook has outlined how it intends to clean up its content, making much of the fact that it has expunged 3.3 billion fake profiles in the last six months.

Google contractors are listening to conversations recorded by Google Assistant in Belgium and the Netherlands. Several recording were also triggered..

Facebook says its Libra payment platform is a social impact project that promises benefits to the poor and unbanked. Others say it’s an…

The voice-assisted device will give official NHS advice, but critics fear a "data protection disaster".

ICO imposes fine after personal data of 339 million guests was stolen by hackers

Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom Client allows any malicious website to enable your camera without your permission. The flaw potentially…