Digital Ethics

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.

The first public details of the secret voice analysis project emerged in a job advert seeking a £20-an-hour intelligence officer to work on the scheme at the NCA's headquarters in Vauxhall, South London.

Brad Smith says governments need to step in and set rules for the Internet giants. "Almost no technology has gone so entirely unregulated, for so long, as digital technology," he says.

Streaming services like Spotify offer up family plans which allows multiple users to enjoy a subscription at the same time at a cheaper rate. This is...

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals shot down LinkedIn's claim that a company that was using its public facing data was violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

The @babylonhealth Chatbot has descended to a whole new level of incompetence, with #DeathByChatbot #GenderBias.Classic #HeartAttack symptoms in a FEMALE, results in a diagnosis of #PanicAttack or #Depression.The Chatbot ONLY suggests the possibility of a #HeartAttack in MEN! pic.twitter.com/M8ohPDx0LX— Dr Murphy (@DrMurphy11) September 8, 2019

A shockingly simple workaround allows your followers to share private photos and videos posted to both Facebook and Instagram.

Regulators are growing more concerned about company’s impact on smaller companies striving to compete in Google’s markets

A new report from Apple contractors reveals that, allegedly, Apple deliberately set out to make Siri as neutral as possible with regards to recent events like MeToo — in spite of her being a focal point in the conversation about the gender politics in voice assistants. The Guardian reports Apple had an internal project to rewrite […]

Exclusive: voice assistant’s responses were rewritten so it never says word ‘feminism’

By harnessing these technologies in tandem, the study's authors could mine over 120,000 public legal records and then use an algorithm to identify connections between them.

The information was stored in an online server that was not password protected, according to a report from TechCrunch

In case you haven't heard, #ZAO is a Chinese app which completely blew up since Friday. Best application of 'Deepfake'-style AI facial replacement I've ever seen. Here's an example of me as DiCaprio (generated in under 8 secs from that one photo in the thumbnail) 🤯 pic.twitter.com/1RpnJJ3wgT— Allan Xia (@AllanXia) September 1, 2019

When Google puts 4 paid ads ahead of the first organic result for your own brand name, you’re forced to pay up if you want to be found. It’s a shakedown. It’s ransom. But at least we can have fun with it. Search for Basecamp and you may see this attached ad. pic.twitter.com/c0oYaBuahL— Jason Fried (@jasonfried) September 3, 2019

Critics say face-swap app could spread misinformation on a massive scale

The dirty little secret is out about artificial intelligence. No, not the one about machines taking over the world. That’s an old one. This one is more insidious. Data scientists, AI experts and others have long suspected it would be a problem. But it’s only within the last couple of years, as AI or some …

This article is based on Rachel Thomas’s keynote presentation, “Analyzing & Preventing Unconscious Bias in Machine Learning” at QCon.ai 2018. Thomas talks about the pitfalls and risk the bias in machine learning brings to the decision-making process. She discusses three use cases of machine learning bias.

Filtering content is often done with good intent, but filtering can also create equity and privacy issues.