Digital Ethics

Travel companies are using facial recognition and other sophisticated tech to better predict how and why their customers shop the way they do.

Some social media companies have had a newsworthiness exemption for years, but they clarified this week that most political content is "news."

Nearly two decades ago, a company called Interpeak created a network protocol that became an industry standard. It also had severe bugs that are only now coming to light.

A.I. research is becoming increasingly expensive, leaving few people with easy access to the computing firepower necessary to develop the technology.

Headlines are full of the ways in which our use of data and automated decision-making algorithms have run amok, from blindly optimizing…

But does it matter that they are not real?

A statement on the necessity of surveillance resistant systems.https://t.co/eOdTOBZK0q pic.twitter.com/icb0OTWXtg— Sarah Jamie Lewis (@SarahJamieLewis) November 8, 2018

Artificial intelligence (AI) and face recognition technology is being used for the first time in job interviews in the UK to identify the best candidates.

I was beginning to think Foucault’s writings on the “disciplinary society” were becoming irrelevant. But then my niece started the 5th grade. Her teachers add and subtract behavioral points in an app shared with her mom. Note that she lost a point for using the restroom today. pic.twitter.com/3nXJ9Mdbyo— Josh Seim (@JoshSeim) September 27, 2019

An investigation into the politics of training sets, and the fundamental problems with classifying humans.

Consumer surveillance cameras are everywhere now, and they’re capturing moments we otherwise would never have known happened.

Standard Cognition will deploy its cashierless tech at a minor league baseball stadium retail venue in the next two years.

Google took out some print ads. Firefox isn't feeling it.

The FTC Facebook agreement reminded me of a question I asked Facebook at the #ARDPPC Ghana after they advised they had 150 million users in Africa (FYI 98% access FB via mobile in Africa). I asked why Facebook changed the Terms of Service for African users from Ireland to the US https://t.co/WDY5IlINdC— Privacy Matters (@PrivacyMatters) July 25, 2019

What a new art book on surveillance reveals about the current state of mass monitoring.

Don’t let unethical leadership define the limits of your work

Ethics is not the answer when our norms and rights are violated. Rule of law must prevail in regulating #ArtificialIntelligence. We need meaningful access to information, oversight and research in the public interest, @MarietjeSchaake #tptalks2019— Fanny Hidvegi (@infofannny) September 19, 2019

Each year, Blind people who upgrade to the new version of iOS face severe accessibility bugs. Those of us who know to be cautious check this thorough, reliably accounting before we decide whether the update is worth our annual double-dose of friction https://t.co/Hcc5BKaVQd— 🌈ChanceyFleet🙈🍏 (@ChanceyFleet) September 19, 2019

iOS 13 will be released to the public on 19 September, 2019. This post contains details of the VoiceOver and braille bugs which we believe to have been introduced in iOS 13; as well as details of the pre-existing bugs which we believe have been resolved.

The Met is taking part in a cutting-edge project that aims to prevent live streaming of terrorist and firearms attacks across the world.

Let’s face the truth. We are in an abusive relationship with our phones.

The concept of the “Internet of things” refers to the spread of Internet connectivity to everyday devices: phones, tablets, alarm clocks, cars,

Data & Society Researchers Jacob Metcalf, Emanuel Moss, and Founder and President danah boyd investigate the tensions that arise when adapting ethics initiatives at Silicon Valley tech companies. "By talking with people who are at the forefront of thinking through ethics from within the technol

Exclusive: Job has left some ‘addicted’ to extreme material and pushed others to far right

Hundreds of computer servers worldwide that store patient X-rays and MRIs are so insecure that anyone with a web browser or a few lines of computer code can view patient records. One expert warned about it for years.

To my fellow Googlers, I want to start by saying that my nearly five years at Google have been the happiest years of my life.

We cannot allow politicians to politicize medical treatments that are necessary to save lives.