Digital Ethics

Baby tracking app design is really... something. pic.twitter.com/aYE21ES2R6— Gillian Smith (@gillianmsmith) February 28, 2020

How designers are using UX for evil

😂😂😂😂😂😂 British passport system violated man said my mouth is open the digital system can’t process my these lips pic.twitter.com/Ozcwi9jEgr— E (@elainebabey) February 25, 2020

Changing a single word can alter the way an AI program judges a job applicant or assesses a medical claim.

New Mexico’s attorney general sued the company, claiming its school tools continue to track kids after the final bell.

In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we’re talking about Ethical Design. What does it mean for a design to be ethical, and how do we make improvements in our own projects? Drew McLellan speaks to Trine Falbe and Martin Michael Frederiksen to find out.

Report warns that technology, uptake of which has largely been driven by cuts, could lead to discrimination

amazon might be at risk of supporting a 'dystopian future' where doorbell cameras and delivery drones create surveillance networks across entire neighborhoods.

Human centred design is anthropocentric design. By focusing on humans only, we frame out the rest of the living planet, and ignore its ongoing destruction.

After the ACLU said a community college in Michigan was violating its students’ First Amendment rights, the school partially relented.

Some of its employees tried to stop their company from doing work they saw as unethical. It blew up in their faces.

When I'm bored I go around putting these stickers on paper towel dispensers pic.twitter.com/WUwHDPm1nS— Sofia Paredes (@SofiaParedes79) November 4, 2019

Lydell Grant was supposed to be in prison for murder. But an emerging form of DNA technology, which has also come under scrutiny, is helping to free him in an unprecedented case.

In a follow up to PI's initial research on sharing of personal data by mental health websites, a second analysis illustrates how change is possible and yet most webpages analysed still share your data with third-parties for marketing purposes.

Given how front and center design is these days, I am still shocked that there is no “code of conduct” or guide to ethical design principles. I had my students write the Designers “Hippocratic Oath” and am sort of in love with what they came up with! pic.twitter.com/cc6wpIgq5d— Minnie Bredouw (@mbredouw) February 4, 2020

The app also collects a host of personal information, including user images, location, and browsing data. It’s then able to share this information with third-party websites and services.

Secondaries in England testing lightweight versions of technology worn by police

Government told to halt use of AI to detect fraud in decision hailed by privacy campaigners

Teenagers are using group accounts to flood Instagram with random user data that can't be tied to a single person.

Facial recognition has come under massive scrutiny, not least since its live variant has come to attention. Approaches to using it are…

How important is the user context when designing amazing products?

To doctors opening patients’ electronic records across the U.S., the alert would have looked innocuous enough.

On the plus side I can now save these for posterity pic.twitter.com/tEN1krfjMt— bruise almighty (@kmlefranc) February 1, 2020

The technology uses sensors inside classrooms and a cellphone app developed by a former Mizzou basketball coach.

At the start of a class, roll calls are usually taken to track who is in attendance at the class. This is important as a student that frequently...

Smartphones leave a trail that anyone — and any foreign government — could follow.

We followed every move of people in one city. Then we went to tell them.

Do customers realise that genetic genealogy companies profit by amassing huge biological datasets, asks geneticist and author Adam Rutherford

Geneticist and author Adam Rutherford examines the evidence

I'm really sorry to p1ss on anyone's chips but DNA kits for heritage are:- junk science- a front for massive commercial data trawling, analysis, re-use and onward sale. It's not 'harmless fun'. You can never get data back. And you just dumped your relatives in it, too. https://t.co/EH62v6u1jA— Maria Farrell (@mariafarrell) January 27, 2020

It’s simply a tool—and hardly a perfect one

Artificial intelligence may never match the brain

One nation under CCTV

If you're skittish about DNA testing services, you're not the only one -- and it's directly affecting one of the heavyweights in the field. The 23andMe team is...

Twitter said Clearview AI, whose app is spreading in law enforcement, was violating its policies. Lawmakers also expressed privacy concerns.

Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about deliberately engineering happiness into the site, expanding into commerce, and competing with larger social and commerce tech companies. This interview was recorded in front of a live audience at the National Retail Federation’s annual conference, the Big Show, in New York City. Featuring: Ben Silbermann (@8en), CEO, Pinterest Host: Kara Swisher (@karaswisher), Recode co-founder and editor-at-large More to explore: Subscribe for free to Reset, Recode’s new podcast that explores why — and how — tech is changing everything. A...

It may not be long before you'll have to forget about walking down the street anonymously, says a New York Times report.

Last month I canceled a random charge for $4.99 per month from HP called "InstantInk". Wasn't sure what it was for. I've had it for over a year but had no idea what it did.I just found out what it did pic.twitter.com/lsFLDR5grv— Ryan Sullivan (@ryandonsullivan) January 17, 2020

Kaylen Ward's Twitter fundraiser for the Australian bushfire relief has ended. The Los Angeles-based model said she raised $1 million (by comparison Jeff Bezos...

Airbnb has a patent for AI that crawls and scrapes everything it can find on you, then judges whether you are conscientious & open or show signs of "neuroticism, involvement in crimes, narcissism, Machiavellianism, or psychopathy." Good luck challenging these judgments, too! https://t.co/b0wZgz85DL— Frank Pasquale (@FrankPasquale) January 17, 2020

‘This is some real-life ‘Black Mirror’ stuff’ — @AOC called out the hidden dangers of facial recognition tech, especially for people of color pic.twitter.com/NHDh3Sjewy— NowThis (@nowthisnews) January 15, 2020

The European Union is considering banning facial recognition technology in public areas for up to five years, to give it time to work out how to prevent abuses, according to proposals seen by Reuters.

Mix together a bit of freely accessible facial recognition software and a free live stream of the public space, and what do you get? A powerful stalker tool.

Social network apologises for allowing the use of discriminatory ad keywords it had meant to ban.

Where is your distributed ledger technology now?

The 'robot rights' debate, and its related question of 'robot responsibility', invokes some of the most polarized positions in AI ethics. While some advocate for granting robots rights on a par...