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Digital Ethics
From Stone to Phone: Modern Day Cobalt Slavery in Congo
James Melville explains why slavery isn't just a historic issue of statues and how your mobile phone contributes to the modern enslavement of 40 million people
The Algorithmic Colonization of Africa
The second annual CyFyAfrica 2019, The Conference on Technology, Innovation, and Society [1] took place in Tangier, Morocco, 7 – 9 June 2019. It was a vibrant, diverse and dynamic gathering …
Click to agree with what? No one reads terms of service, studies confirm
Apparently losing rights to data and legal recourse is not enough of a reason to inspect online contracts. So how can websites get users to read the fine print?
Developing a Code of Ethics for UX Design: What We Can Learn from the Field of Architecture
UXPA's User Experience magazine: covering the broad field of user experience.
"I Have Blood On My Hands": A Whistleblower Says Facebook Ignored Global Political Manipulation
A 6,600-word internal memo from a fired Facebook data scientist details how the social network knew about specific examples of global political manipulation — and failed to act.
AI ethics - why teaching ethics and "ethics training" is problematic
We've been trying to teach "ethics" for years. Teaching AI ethics to organizations is proving to be just as problematic. Yet as the urgency of ethical AI increases, we need a way forward. What are the options?
Portland Passes Groundbreaking Ban on Facial Recognition in Stores, Banks, Restaurants and More
Historic legislation makes Portland a leader in a nationwide trend to regulate facial recognition technology.
Faulty Facial Recognition Led to His Arrest—Now He’s Suing
Michael Oliver is the second Black man found to be wrongfully arrested by Detroit police because of the technology—and his lawyers suspect there are many more.
Jason Kint on Twitter
Listen to @AOC. pic.twitter.com/gVAYqeEQzW https://t.co/B4lLQGWqR1— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) September 4, 2020
The long, complicated history of “people analytics”
If you work for Bank of America, or the US Army, you might have used technology developed by Humanyze. The company grew out of research at MIT’s cross-disciplinary Media Lab and describes its products as “science-backed analytics to drive adaptability.” If that sounds vague, it might be deliberate. Among the things Humanyze sells to businesses…
The code I’m still ashamed of
If you write code for a living, there’s a chance that at some point in your career, someone will ask you to code something a little deceitful – if not outright unethical. This happened to me back in the year 2000. And it’s something I’ll never be able to forget. I wrote my first line of code at 6 years old. I’m no prodigy though. I had a lot of help from my dad at the time. But I was hooked. I loved it. By the time I was 15, I was working part-time for my dad’s consulting firm. I built websit
A futuristic data policing program is harassing Pasco County families
Families were subjected to around-the-clock visits from deputies, who often arrived without evidence of a crime.
These students figured out their tests were graded by AI — and the easy way to cheat
Edgenuity involves short answers graded by an algorithm, and students have already cracked it
Eight case studies on regulating biometric technology show us a path forward
Amba Kak was in law school in India when the country rolled out the Aadhaar project in 2009. The national biometric ID system, conceived as a comprehensive identity program, sought to collect the fingerprints, iris scans, and photographs of all residents. It wasn’t long, Kak remembers, before stories about its devastating consequences began to spread.…
Understanding the Antitrust Landscape
Dispatches from Editor-in-Chief Julia Angwin
Facebook won’t stop Facebook from spreading lies about the election
Facebook is sort of banning political ads in the week before the 2020 election and making other well-intentioned tweaks. That’s not nearly enough.
Palantir filed to go public. The firm's unethical technology should horrify us | Marisa Franco
Palantir powers Ice immigration raids, the defense sector and police surveillance. It is the big tobacco of the tech world
What’s missing from corporate statements on racial injustice? The real cause of racism.
On August 31, Airbnb launched Project Lighthouse, an initiative meant to “uncover, measure, and overcome discrimination” on the home-sharing platform. According to the company, Project Lighthouse will identify discrimination by measuring whether a renter’s perceived race correlates with differences in the rate or quality of that person’s bookings, cancellations, or reviews. This project comes amid…
‘Who’s Putting These Ideas in His Head?’
The former FBI agent Peter Strzok worries that Americans will never learn the full story about Trump’s relationship with Russia.
A platform-by-platform prescription for treating the disinformation disease
Social media is unquestionably the vector for increasingly dangerous misinformation.
Amazon Is Spying on Its Workers in Closed Facebook Groups, Internal Reports Show
The company is surveilling dozens of private Facebook groups in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain, according to an internal web tool and reports left on the open internet.
Why are US companies buying tech from Chinese firms that spy on Muslims? | Darren Byler
Amazon and IBM get Covid screening systems from companies that use their technology to oppress minority groups
Online school means online tests, along with computerized surveillance
When Amanda Kemper found out that artificial intelligence would help monitor students during her mechanical engineering class's final exam this summer, she was worried.
Blame-Laden Moral Rebukes and the Morally Competent Robot: A Confucian Ethical Perspective
Empirical studies have suggested that language-capable robots have the persuasive power to shape the shared moral norms based on how they respond to human norm violations. This persuasive power presents cause for concern, but also the opportunity to persuade humans to cultivate their own moral development. We argue that a truly socially integrated and morally competent robot must be willing to communicate its objection to humans’ proposed violations of shared norms by using strategies such as blame-laden rebukes, even if doing so may violate other standing norms, such as politeness. By draw...
Exclusive: Poll reveals Americans' data privacy frustrations
Americans, frustrated they don't have more control over their data, would gladly switch to companies that prioritize privacy.
The “smart wife” in crisis
Alexa is in her element. With more of us working or staying at home, we’ve never been more in need of her wifely services. Alexa, Siri, Google Home, and other “smart wives” — feminised technologies that take on the duties and traits of stereotypical housewives reminiscent of the 1950s — are on hand to help in this emerging crisis. But “helping” might not be all they are doing.
British police to trial facial recognition system that detects your mood
Lincolnshire police plan to test facial recognition and behavioral tech that infers people's moods and expressions by analyzing CCTV footage.
An A.I. Training Tool Has Been Passing Its Bias to Algorithms for Almost Two Decades
The data set’s ripple effects are immeasurable
Facebook’s sad summer continues with a $650 million settlement
The company will pay Illinois users between $200 and $400 over claims that it violated the state’s facial recognition law.