Digital Ethics

The legal identity of on-demand platform workers has become a central site of conflict between labor and industry. Amidst growing economic inequality, labor rep

The firm claims to have over 3 billion faces in its database, many controversially acquired from public web sources and social media.

Just 6% of respondents said they ensure AI is used ethically and responsibly by making development teams diverse.

Co-authors: Guillaume Saint-Jacques, Amir Sepehri, Nicole Li, and Igor Perisic

Last week, "Marina" - a piano teacher who publishes free lessons her Piano Keys Youtube channel - celebrated her fifth anniversary by announcing that she was quitting Youtube because her meager wages were being stolen by fraudsters.https://t.co/6tZpJpcyt51/ pic.twitter.com/uDKWcpbVtK— Cory Doctorow (@doctorow) May 8, 2021

Technology has blurred all sorts of boundaries we used to take for granted. One we still treat as sacrosanct is the one around our own minds, which allows us to think for ourselves and keep those thoughts private. But technology may now be challenging this mental independence, too, with potential implications for our autonomy.

Using social science to develop robust analyses of AI systems and their impact.

The Data Delusion: Protecting Individual Data Isn't Enough When The Harm is Collective DOWNLOAD (PDF) Author: Martin Tisné, Managing Director, Luminate Editor: Marietje Schaake, International Policy Director, Cyber Policy Center The threat of digital discrimination On March 17, 2018, questions about data privacy exploded with the scandal of the previously unknown consulting

The European Parliament has adopted legislation to allow EU consumers to defend their rights collectively. The measure, which is to become law within two years, aims to give individuals more power against corporations.

Brands are seeking new ways to customize messages. A startup that gathers data on when you pick up your phone, or when you go out on a run, can help.

Protecting individual data is not enough when the harms are collective

We gave up our privacy to fight Covid-19, can we get it back? An FT film starring Lydia West and Arthur Darvill in collaboration with Sonia Friedman Productions and supported by Luminate. An interrogation scene explores how Covid-19 has exposed the tension between the need for data to track and trace, and the right to privacy and justice

A study of 10,000 images found bias in what the system chooses to highlight. Twitter has stopped using it on mobile, and will consider ditching it on the web.

After 23 interviews over twelve months, I believe that without significant reform, IDEO is an unsafe workplace for women, PoC, and WoC

Juul represents the corruption of a Silicon Valley design approach. Here's what happened.

A new operating system gives users more privacy. That’s bad news for Facebook.

What makes these two cases so gobsmacking is that the women’s voices are literally RIGHT THERE, in our ears, while companies deny their contribution and erase their names from history😫— Mar Hicks (@histoftech) May 17, 2021

There aren’t well-established national guidelines for police use of facial recognition software. A 2019 report found surprising practices at some police departments, including editing suspects’ facial features before running their photos in a search. https://t.co/zNkAi53NT5 pic.twitter.com/YRvPRPmwaV— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) May 16, 2021

From the printing press to vaccines to artificial intelligence, the introduction of almost any transformative technology has been met with wonder as well as ...

You need a license to go fishing but not to deploy software at global scale.— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) May 16, 2021

Accessibility isn’t more work, you were just cutting corners before. The work was incomplete.— woo woo woo (@McgarrDana) April 29, 2021

The social-media company lost a bid to block a European Union privacy decision that could suspend its ability to send information about Europeans to the U.S., opening a pathway toward a precedent-setting interruption of its data flows.

Three months after the company banned vaccine misinformation, CNBC has found evidence of people using one of Facebook's own features to skirt its policies..

"These companies have never been interested in opening your mail, they've been interested in shaping your world."@mikarv, Lecturer in Digital Rights & Regulation at @UCLLaws, explains how the "walled garden" works in tech and how companies track and target users#Newsnight pic.twitter.com/i6m82ZoIfl— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) May 13, 2021

The company's oversight board failed to mention one thing in its ruling this week: Facebook's responsibility for making the tools to wield undue influence and power.

Why appliances aren’t built to last, and how the E.U. is changing that.

by Marisol Sandoval, City, University of London, UK, and Sebastian Sevignani, Paderborn University and University of Jena, Germany Critical media and communication sociology is facing a theoretical and practical dilemma: While for critical social theory, inspired by Marxian and Marxist […]

You can write to Instagram to request your pronouns.

Apple robbed the mob's bank. Mobile marketing and advertising, freemium monetization strategy, and marketing science. Mobile Dev Memo.

Some of the first data on user behavior exceeds advertisers' worst fears.

Documents show how the company tracks and terminates workers

The 14,000-account "political manipulation" network sent posts on Trump, Biden, and COVID.

Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) is about to be heavily regulated in the EU. Here's how tech providers can successfully comply.

The university accused 17 students of cheating on remote exams, raising questions about data mining and sowing mistrust on campus.

I clipped a keychain with one of Apple's tiny new Bluetooth trackers, AirTags, onto my son's book bag and waved goodbye to him on the school bus. I watched on my iPhone's Find My app as the bus stopped at a light a few blocks down from our street.

These fallacies give a false sense of confidence about how close we are to achieving artificial general intelligence, and what this tech can do for us.

Echo speakers and devices from Tile, Level and CareBand will join Sidewalk in June.

It has become trivial to point out that algorithmic systems increasingly pervade the social sphere. Improved efficiency—the hallmark of these systems—…

We explore digital ethics and try to shine a light on 10 new challenges facing humanity. Some current and some future!

I’m writing this as the back story about how our Systemic Design Framework came to be. This is not the press release, nor the formal…

The FBI is investigating claim hackers obtained 250GB of police department data.

Artificial intelligence will change the health care industry, not least by raising serious moral issues.

In a crowded field of awful companies, one stands out as the worst: @proctorio, which uses digital phrenology to monitor students' faces while they take tests, setting them up for punishment for looking away while thinking, going to the bathroom, or throwing up from anxiety.3/— Cory Doctorow (@doctorow) April 22, 2021

There’s a lot of talk these days about building ethics into artificial intelligence systems. From a philosophical perspective, it’s a daunting challenge – and this has to do with the nature of ethics, which is more than just a set of principles and instructions. Can machines ever really be moral agents?

In order to be more inclusive as teachers, presenters, speakers, facilitators (and a long list of other things we do in life where we communicate), we need to develop the skill of audio describing our own presentations.

Consent Management Providers (CMPs) provide consent pop-ups that are embedded in ever more websites over time to enable streamlined compliance with the legal requirements for consent mandated by the ePrivacy Directive and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). They implement the standard for consent collection from the Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF) (current version v2.0) proposed by the European branch of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB Europe). Although the IAB’s TCF specifications characterize CMPs as data processors, CMPs factual activities often qualifies them as data controllers instead. Discerning their clear role is crucial since compliance obligations and CMPs liability depend on their accurate characterization. We perform empirical experiments with two major CMP providers in the EU: Quantcast and OneTrust and paired with a legal analysis. We conclude that CMPs process personal data, and we identify three scenarios wherein CMPs are controllers.