Digital Ethics

1/ A couple of months ago, I discovered my health insurer was monitoring my sleep and using it to deny me benefits. So I told my colleague @marshall_allen…https://t.co/BYU1956k1a— Eric Umansky (@ericuman) November 21, 2018

It’s been two tumultuous years. Still, it’s highly unlikely we’ve witnessed the moment Facebook hit bottom. A new feature, spotted by some users on Monday, may offer a clue as to what that moment could look like. In this case, it’s a tool that prompts users to comment on live video using algorithmically-generated text or […]

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The Nuremberg Code (German: Nürnberger Kodex) is a set of research ethics principles for human experimentation created as a result of the Nuremberg trials at the end of the Second World War.

The golden age of menstrual surveillance is great for men, marketers, and medical companies.

With these five tips couched in cutting-edge science, you can finally go toe-to-toe with crazy Uncle Bob.

In World War II, Britain invented the electronic computer. By the 1970s, its computing industry had collapsed—thanks to a labor shortage produced by sexism.

Some think chief ethics officers could help technology companies navigate political and social questions.

This is what the internet has come to: thugs like Mohammed bin Salman funding tech companies to host the vitriol of thugs like Cesar Sayoc and Robert Bowers.

My home computer in 1998 had a 56K modem connected to our telephone line; we were allowed a maximum of thirty minutes of computer usage a day, because my parents — quite reasonably — did not want to have their telephone shut off for an evening at a time. I remember webpages loading slowly: ten […]

Design for the lives your users are living — not for the value you want to extract from them

Silicon Valley was built on job-hopping. But when a leader of Google’s self-driving-car unit joined Uber, Google filed suit. Now the Feds are on the case.

Platforms are making us complacent. Here's why.

Human-centered design is great for mops and phones, but it won't solve society's biggest problems

Humans have evolved a number of strategies to help us cope with the constant overload of information. Understanding these strategies can help us conduct better UX research resulting in more accurate observations, and design User Interfaces that are easier to use and require less mental effort

Time is your most valuable asset--you need to prioritize how you spend it.

Netflix says it does not track users' race or ethnicity. But in customizing promotions based on users' past viewing history, it can achieve a similar effect.

This is the first of three parts of the Innovation Initiative’s special series on digital rights. To illustrate the complexity of digital…

Make art, not products

I can't help but feel the subtle onset of nausea and an uncontrollable eye twitch whenever I hear the tech community mention the E-Word —…

Historian Yuval Noah Harari explains why prepping for our future has nothing to do with learning code or building a bunker.

Automated systems take into account thousands of variables to make decisions that affect our lives. People are calling for more transparency in AI, but not everyone agrees on what constitutes a fair explanation.

The bereaved mother still saw the ads after sharing news of her loss on the site and changing her settings.

Bristol workshop on 19th February on Eventbrite at Learning To Listen

Large-scale misconduct starts small, so prevention should focus on how employees make decisions.

Wholeness requires personal development of emotional intelligence so we will risk the personal authenticity needed for survival in complexity.

The nonprofit’s founder and chairwoman explains her latest initiative: a $3.5M competition in partnership with the Omidyar Network to explore new ways to teach ethics to computer science students.

Once you’ve reached the top, do you have to care what anyone thinks?