Digital Ethics

Top brass from Facebook, Twitter, and Google stopped by Stanford Law School Thursday to participate in a conversation about the challenges social media companies face in regulating free speech and protecting democracies. The panel showed the companies are much better at identifying problems than actually solving them.

If no one reads the terms and conditions, how can they continue to be the legal backbone of the internet?

Week 6: Blocking them all

Dozens of companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds. They say it’s anonymous, but the data shows how personal it is.

Sometimes we forget who our user is pic.twitter.com/bMMQ9X7aVN— Nina Alli (@headinthebooth) February 3, 2019

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Last night in Glendale, after hearing Jared Spool give an extraordinary talk about the growth of a new domain for design from screens and…

If you’ve ever felt that your green credentials have gone unrewarded, it might be worth considering a move to the Italian city of Bologna. For six months a year, an initiative called Bella Mossa

When people far smarter than you tell you "read this", don't argue. pic.twitter.com/Y85lkjnxyU— Heather Burns (@WebDevLaw) January 30, 2019

Directed by Theodore Melfi. With Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner. The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.

Facebook, facing an onslaught of privacy-related controversies and a growing push for regulation, has in the last month hired three high-profile tech industry critics and commentators to beef up its privacy policy team in Washington, D.C.A Facebook spokesman said the hires, who come from Access ...

Platforms collect and analyse personal data and sell it to their customers for the purpose of targeted advertising. However, the reality is often far more complex than one may expect. Mainly, the scope and the actual use of collected data are often surprising.

The dating app knows me better than I do, but these reams of intimate information are just the tip of the iceberg. What if my data is hacked – or sold?

Dr Daniel Glaser delves into the murky world of Artificial Intelligence and asks whether true intelligence can exist without an understanding of morality

The year is 2019. Your mouse wants to “analyze your data” so it can advertise to you. pic.twitter.com/xtXUsVvTec— Ben Scheirman 📎 (@subdigital) January 17, 2019

We think of artificial intelligence as something that should better humanity, but user monitoring is an invasion of privacy. Facebook’s…

I’m writing a book on the ubiquitous influence of design on our everyday lives and the systems that sustain the planet. It looks at how…

Facebook engaged in practices that tricked children and parents into spending money in free-to-play games, according to the publication Reveal.

These days, you’re lucky to see ANY content on a news or publication site when you land there. https://t.co/KfM1Y5NJRf— Adam Amran (@amrancz) January 26, 2019

THIS is a great mobile experience.- WE TRACK YOUR INTERACTIONS AND YOU HAVE TO ACCEPT IT.- WANT TO INSTALL OUR APP, EVEN THOUGH THIS IS YOUR FIRST VISIT?- HEY, WHY NOT READ ANOTHER ARTICLE EVEN THOUGH YOU'VE NOT EVEN SEEN THE HEADING OF THIS ONE? pic.twitter.com/QyGCD4jmeB— Per Pettersson (@per_p) January 26, 2019

A year ago I was in the audience at a gathering of designers in San Francisco. There were four designers on stage, and two of them worked…

The problem isn't kids owning smartphones. But when daily use exceeds two hours a day, mental health issues start to crop up.

Tech companies are beginning to recognise that there is an ethical dimension to their work, and that they have some responsibility for the well-being of their users.

In this episode, Kate and Laura talk about how and why to protect your users from each other while they slowly lose what little faith they still had in humanity. Happy New Year. Drink pairing: Bottomless Mimosas. Or topless. Whatever. You do you.

Fake news threatens our democracy. Fake medical news threatens our lives.

Machine learning algorithms don’t yet understand things the way humans do — with sometimes disastrous consequences

We talk to Amber Case, cyborg anthropologist and UX designer. We chat about the ideas expressed in Amber’s popular TED talk “We are all cyborgs now” before turning our attention to the notion of calm technology. More and more things are demanding more and more of our attention. Everything beeps, flashes, vibrates or notifies. With...

Podcast interview with Cyd Harrell. We talk to Cyd about researching on the fly and preparing yourself for research sessions in general.

On April 9, 2017, United Airlines flight 3411 was preparing to take off from Chicago when flight attendants discovered the plane was overbooked. They tried to get volunteers to give up their seats with promises of travel vouchers and hotel accommodations, but not enough people were willing to get off the flight. So United ended up