Digital Ethics

Much discussion around COVID-19 public health apps has focused on how to ensure functionality, including on how to measure proximity between phone users and whether apps should adopt a centralised...

Social media has become our new home. Can we build it better? Taking design cues from urban planners and social scientists, technologist Eli Pariser shows how the problems we're encountering on digital platforms aren't all that new -- and shares how, by following the model of thriving towns and cities, we can create trustworthy online communities.

This is the June 2020 recap issue of CDT’s monthly EU Tech Policy Brief. It highlights some of the most pressing technology and internet policy matters under debate in Europe, the U.S., and internationally, and gives CDT’s perspective on them.

SafeBoda has been exposed over its data privacy practices, following an investigation by Unwanted Witness Uganda. The civil society organization has today...

When the public is focusing on a technology instead of a holistic solution to address complex policy issues, technology theatre is working.

Apps that harvest data, dark web marketplaces, and state surveillance are just some of the dangers LGBTQ people have to think about online.

Digital Ethics – The Mindmap. This mindmap reminds me of the complexity of the system, but also of why it matters to work intentionally with Digital Ethics...

Adobe Inclusive Design Workshop. Contribute to adobe-inclusive-design/id-workshop development by creating an account on GitHub.

People working for Amazon have written to the company's CEO, Jeff Bezos, to protest the sale of facial recognition tools and other technology to police departments and government agencies.

Newly-released documents expose more explicitly the details of IBM's pivotal role in the Holocaust.

Last week, Facebook announced that it would allow voters in the United States to opt out of seeing social issue, electoral or political ads from candidates in their Facebook and Instagram feeds.

It comes amid calls for the government to act on a two-year-old promise to make the practice illegal.

Influence operation promoted Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and attacked his rivals

Top uni takes action after El Reg highlights concerns by academics

Report warns that the social media company may be “driving people toward self-reinforcing echo chambers of extremism.”

The most common Q I get on responsible design: ‘How do I actually embed ethical considerations into our innovation process?’Although I don’t love cramming a multifaceted field like ethics into a linear diagram, it’s helpful to show a simple process map. So here’s my attempt. pic.twitter.com/TMfEq38yn5— Cennydd (@Cennydd) July 3, 2020

Our practice is built on our Principles for the AI Era as a resource for all designers and developers. This shared collection of ethics, guidelines, and resources ensures that IBM products share a unified foundation.

Domestic workers have been illegally sold via Instagram and other apps on Google and Apple's stores.

New tools give tech giants the power to shape communities and change behaviour, says Michael Veale lecturer in digital rights and regulation at University College London

The media and the academic world are filled with stories and analyses of how AI will impact our economy. Yet with few exceptions, this work is focused on the impacts that might occur through...

ABA Journal

“"Algorithms are racist because we are racist." Data scientist @mathbabedotorg warns that, despite the appearance of fairness and objectivity, most algorithms reinforce the old biases we hoped they'd eliminate https://t.co/gZKvkLFNSN”

Over 1,500 mathematicians have signed a letter urging the community to stop working with police.

Facebook has been ordered to curb its data collection practices in Germany after a landmark ruling on Thursday that the world's largest social network abused its market dominance to gather information about users without their consent.

“BREAKING: We're filing a complaint against Detroit police for wrongfully arresting Robert Williams, an innocent Black man — all because face recognition technology can't tell Black people apart. Officers hauled him away in front of his kids and locked him up for 30 hours. https://t.co/84XJs0XWq...

The careful wording of public pledges leaves plenty of room for oppressive uses of the technology, critics say.

Robert Williams says his driver's license photo was incorrectly matched with a wanted suspect. He says he was arrested and detained. Though the case was dropped, Williams says its effect is lasting.

Crime-prediction technology reproduces injustices & causes real harm

The news: An open letter from a growing coalition of AI researchers is calling out scientific publisher Springer Nature for a conference paper it reportedly planned to include in its forthcoming book Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence. The paper, titled “A Deep Neural Network Model to Predict Criminality Using Image Processing,” presents a…