Digital Ethics

Lensa.ai and other photo apps like it could put your personal biometric data at risk, experts say, and warn that once you give your data to those companies, you have no control over how the companies use it.

Buzzy products like ChatGPT and DALL-E 2 will have to turn a profit eventually.

A growing number of people are experimenting with federated alternatives to social media like Mastodon, either by joining an “instance” hosted by someone else or creating their own instance by running the free, open-source software on a server they control. (See more about this movement and joining...

A recent incident at Radio City Music Hall involving the mother of a Girl Scout is shedding light on the growing controversy of facial recognition, as critics claim it is being used to target perceived enemies — in this case, by one of the most famous companies in the country.

An attorney whose firm is in litigation with MSG Entertainment was barred from attending a Radio City Rockettes’ show with her daughter and other Girl Scouts because the company’s facial recognition technology knew where she worked. NBC New York’s Sarah Wallace reports.

Within the Next Generation Internet Initiative, we have been working towards alternative futures for the internet to create a resilient, trustworthy and sustainableinternet. These alternate futures have one thing in common: they are based on technology commons: open standards, free and open source software and hardware, and open data.

A preview of my chat with Open AI's ChatGPT

The Coral Project is an open source project to help publishers of all sizes build better communities around their journalism. We’re creating tools that help everyone to feel safe, respected, and heard.

Robot vacuum companies say your images are safe, but a sprawling global supply chain for data from our devices creates risk.

Microsoft is heading the corporate charge into inclusive design. But even the company admits it has a lot to learn.

What this article is about: The difference between Social Networking & Social Media What Social Media was supposed to be and what it bec...

Elon Musk's platform could learn a thing or two from its most popular alternative—like how to build a social platform people actually want to be on.

Elon Musk has used the same playbook at all of his companies from Tesla to SpaceX. Sadly for him, his model will cause Twitter to go down in flames.

In a recent article covering the FTX collapse, the New York Times described large language models (LLMs) as “an increasingly powerful breed…

Here are all the ways to get around ChatGPT's safeguards:[1/n]— Davis Blalock (@davisblalock) December 13, 2022

Windows giant fears coin crafting may upend its servers

Algorithms that create art, text, and code are spreading fast—but legal challenges could throw a wrench in the works.

Research suggests algorithm promotes self-harm and eating disorder content within minutes of interest being shown

Apple has democratized stalking for the modern world. With the Airtag you can keep track of your luggage and your estranged spouse.There’s been an uptick in stalking cases with Apple Airtags at the center and the legal system doesn’t quite know what to do. Often, the cops and the prosecutors don’t even know what an Airtag is. So what do you do when there’s technology at the center of your legal battle, technology that the authorities do not understand.Today on Cyber, Motherboard Senior Editor Samantha Cole comes on to walk us through it.Stories discussed in this episode:The Legal System Is Completely Unprepared for Apple AirTag StalkingHow ‘Porn Addiction’ Took Hold of the InternetRepublicans Are Panicking Because They Somehow Just Found Out You Can Buy Vibrators at CVSWe’re recording CYBER live on Twitch and YouTube. Watch live during the week. Follow us there to get alerts when we go live. We take questions from the audience and yours might just end up on the show.Subscribe to CYBER on Apple Podcasts or

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When the makers of electronic implants abandon their projects, people who rely on the devices have everything to lose.

Today Apple announced it will provide fully encrypted iCloud backups, meeting a longstanding demand by EFF and other privacy-focused organizations. We applaud Apple for listening to experts, child advocates, and users who want to protect their most sensitive data. Encryption is one of the most...

EU privacy regulators say Facebook and Instagram must not force users to agree to tracking by putting this requirement into their terms. This business model is illegal according to the GDPR.

A short case study covering what happened with Raspberry Pi on the Fediverse.