Digital Ethics

Fueled by fears of school shootings, the market has grown rapidly for technologies that monitor students through official school emails and chats

Hong Kong law enforcement authorities have access to artificial intelligence software that can match faces from any video footage to police databases, but it’s unclear if it’s being used to quell months-long pro-democracy protests, according to people familiar with the matter.

A look at the full lifetime emissions of the vehicles call into question the ecological assumptions around “micromobility.”

Until appropriate safeguards are in place, we need a moratorium on biometric technology that identifies individuals, says Kate Crawford.

As Gen Z grows up and goes to college, some parents are using technology to keep a close watch

Mozilla releases Firefox 70 with social tracking protection, dramatic macOS performance gains, more https://t.co/UsQfEe9krV— Marco de Luca (@dondeluca) October 23, 2019

i (in a wheelchair) was just trapped *on* forbes ave by one of these robots, only days after their independent roll out. i can tell that as long as they continue to operate, they are going to be a major accessibility and safety issue. [thread] https://t.co/JHo5PlzMFs— 👻Emily Eek ! Ackerman 👻 (@EmilyEAckerman) October 21, 2019

Deepfakes have come across as serious problems this year and big companies are now paying attention. Amazon announced today it’s joining the DeepFake Detection challenge (DFDC) driven by major corporations such as Facebook and Microsoft to boost efforts to identify manipulated content. The company is going to contribute $1 million in AWS credits over the […]

The hotel is returning to human workers after the robot experience failed to reduce costs or workload for its employees.

Exclusive: Amazon, Google fail to address security loopholes in Alexa and Home devices more than a year after first reports.

Facebook is everywhere, extracting data. They only provide political ads data back to the gray countries on this map. What does it mean to withhold extracted data from all the red countries? —@Beltrandroid of https://t.co/DigXOlSdCc on #datacolonialsm pic.twitter.com/dzyR8TJiwH— Rachel Weidinger (@rachelannyes) October 21, 2019

A privacy regulator had sought to force firm to delist links across the world and not just Europe.

Stanford just launched their Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (@StanfordHAI) with great fanfare. The mission: "The creators and designers of AI must be broadly representative of humanity."121 faculty members listed.Not a single faculty member is Black. pic.twitter.com/znCU6zAxui— Chad Loder ➐ (@chadloder) March 21, 2019

Timnit Gebru looks around the AI world and sees almost no one who looks like her. That’s a problem for all of us.

There was a time when technology was perceived as neutral. But we now know the technology we thought would save us is actually recreating the same kinds of inequalities we were trying to redress in the first place. Princeton sociologist Ruha Benjamin asks if there's a way to create a new technological reality without a digital underclass.

The US criminal legal system uses predictive algorithms to try to make the judicial process less biased. But there’s a deeper problem.

Following the publication of a landmark MIT study alleging gender and racial bias in their Rekognition AI product, Amazon have gone on the defensive.

Ethical questions about artificial intelligence are being raised by “obvious problems” with biased algorithms

Facebook is ill-equipped to define what constitutes voter suppression, especially at the local level.

The Facebook CEO's Georgetown speech tried to assauge the complaints of Democrats, Republicans and the news media against his company. But will it work?

Facebook’s CEO rallies people around the First Amendment

Zuckerberg’s speech feels like empty words in the absence of any concrete changes to the company’s questionable policies on speech.

“There’s something fundamental at stake, which is: What does human agency look like?”

Zuckerberg said the company welcomes regulation, but that's not the message on Capitol Hill.

When Elizabeth Warren criticised Facebook over their decision to let Trump run false ads, Facebook compared itself to a broadcaster. That was a big mistake

Social media platforms based in the U.S. including Facebook and WhatsApp will be forced to share users’ encrypted messages with British police under a new treaty between the two countries, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Records reviewed by The Washington Post show that at least 44 public and private universities in the United States work with outside consulting companies to collect and analyze data on prospective students, either by tracking their Web activity or formulating predictive scores to measure each student’s likelihood of enrolling. The vast majority of universities reviewed by The Post do not tell students the schools are collecting their information.