Digital Ethics

Män är fortfarande en prioriterad kategori på arbetsmarknaden och i tillvaron i stort. Men när algoritmer alltmer styr våra liv väcks frågan om hur mycket kvinnor och minoriteter diskrimineras utan att någon behöver ta ansvar för det...

Professor Scott Galloway owns approximately 334,000 shares in Twitter, and he has something to say about the company's leadership.

Voice technology has historically struggled to understand people with unique speech patterns, like those with Down syndrome.

The FBI also recommends changing factory-set (default) passwords and not allowing an IoT device's accompanying mobile app to gain access to too many smartphone permissions.

A study by a Beijing-based body indicates many are worried about their biometric data being hacked.

This week, security reporter Brian Krebs asked why the newest iPhone 11 Pro appeared to be sending out a user’s location even when the user disabled Location Services in their phone’s settings, in conflict with Apple’s privacy policy and the express wishes of the user. Apple told Krebs it was “expected behavior” and that there […]

Beijing’s pursuit of control over a Muslim ethnic group pushes the rules of science and raises questions about consent.

Disability campaigners say it was "bizarre" to limit video views to reduce bullying on the app.

“My first day on the job, I witnessed someone being beaten to death with a plank of wood with nails in it and repeatedly stabbed.”

Facebook said on Saturday it had issued a correction notice on a user's post at the request of the Singapore government, but called for a measured approach to the implementation of a new "fa...

Twitter has changed its tune regarding inactive accounts after receiving a lot of user feedback: It will now be developing a way to “memorialize” user accounts for those who have passed away, before proceeding with a plan it confirmed this week to deactivate accounts that are inactive in order to “present more accurate, credible information” […]

Apple Maps now shows Crimea - annexed from Ukraine in 2014 - as part of Russia, when viewed there.

Twitter has changed its tune regarding inactive accounts after receiving a lot of user feedback: It will now be developing a way to “memorialize” user accounts for those who have passed away, before proceeding with a plan it confirmed this week to deactivate accounts that are inactive in order to “present more accurate, credible information” […]

Design is about power. Someone pays for the work and they have their own reasons for why they are paying. How this is translated and converted into specific decisions is varied, but in the end, it's the person in charge, and who influenced them, that defines the likely results.— Scott Berkun (@berkun) November 27, 2019

The employee-only tool, created around 2015 and 2016, used Facebook's vast collection of facial data to automatically recognize people.

Doing the right thing can be hard when it’s bad for business.

A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents reveals the operations manual for running the mass detention camps in Xinjiang and exposed the mechanics of the region’s system of mass surveillance.

An algorithm deduced the sexuality of people on a dating site with up to 91% accuracy, raising tricky ethical questions

BREAKING: We at ICIJ have obtained a NEW trove of highly classified Chinese govt documents, including the operations manual for China's concentration camps.I served as ICIJ’s lead reporter for the China Cables, with 17 media partners from 14 countries.https://t.co/l1mMVajLVQ— B. Allen-Ebrahimian (@BethanyAllenEbr) November 24, 2019

Employees will embrace innovation if they feel they are in control of new technologies

Accepting an award from the Anti-Defamation League, the comedian called Facebook “the greatest propaganda machine in history.”

Way back when you took your driving test and got your license, someone somewhere gave you a lecture about responsibility. Maybe it was your parents, the driving instructor, or the DMV tester. You were in charge of the car, and therefore it was your responsibility to not crash it.

This is a crib of a talk that Data & Society Founder and President danah boyd gave at the Online News Association conference in Austin…

The police department held on to the fingerprint records of thousands of children charged as juvenile delinquents in violation of New York law.

As the information gap between experts and non-experts narrows, it is increasingly important that experts learn to give advice to non-experts in a way that is e

Even those who’ve tracked technology will be chilled to their core by Zuboff’s new book.

The findings speak to a bigger problem in the development of automated systems: algorithmic bias.

The road to hell is paved by promises of convenience. I mean, sure we live in a society of ultra control, but it's fRiCtiOnLeSS ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://t.co/CbsnqxVqfh— Jathan Sadowski (@jathansadowski) November 14, 2019

A man's smart home is his castle (doctrine), which he has an obligation to arm and defend.In these trying times, we need a president who can promise us the simple things: a Ring on every door and an anti-personnel drone in every garage.https://t.co/20XI3SNuRG— Jathan Sadowski (@jathansadowski) November 13, 2019

Company has confirmed system bug in the latest version of the iOS app, and said it is submitting a fix to Apple

Facebook has yet again come under fire for invading its member's privacy. The app has been found to activate an iOS user's camera without their knowledge while scrolling through the platform.

Dawn Song, an expert in computer security and trustworthy artificial intelligence, is working on making that vision a reality.

Power in AI is like gravity, an invisible force that influences every consideration of ethics in artificial intelligence.

Intersectional Accuracy Differences in Gender Classification

The New York Times is launching an ongoing examination of privacy. We’ll dig into the ideas, history and future of how our information navigates the digital ecosystem and what’s at stake.

Dottie Lux has been called ‘the real names crusader’ for helping fight back against a Facebook policy that queer users say is discriminatory

“The larger point is that it’s unaccountable and opaque, and Apple doesn’t really care.”

Don’t just give away your privacy to the likes of Google and Facebook – protect it, or you disempower us all

Computer scientists have developed an algorithm that can pick out almost any American in databases supposedly stripped of personal information.

The tech company’s deal with Ascension is part of a push to use artificial intelligence to aid health services.

Leaked Facebook documents. very interesing stuff.On developing a 'Profile Accuracy llQuiz’ “Our initial feedback is that this flow suggests that we are trying to trick users into providing data about their friends, but legal and PR have signed off on this." pic.twitter.com/VENdZAEJR7— Privacy Matters (@PrivacyMatters) November 11, 2019

Facebook was "working with Cisco and other manufacturers to collect insights about users whose mobile devices are detected by in-store wifi".(the whole table is from an email dated December 11, 2013) pic.twitter.com/qx7A7sLYsj— Wolfie Christl (@WolfieChristl) November 11, 2019

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Big tech isn’t interested in a better world, just a more profitable one. We need to break its stranglehold on us, says Guardian US columnist Rebecca Solnit

But the patient records system, called Epic, has a few shortcomings of its own, including a voice that amplifies the insecurities that come with being a doctor.

In summer 2019, FPF's education privacy project held a special webinar series with privacy experts outside of education with lessons that can be applied to student privacy. The third webinar topic was facial recognition, with some discussion of how this technology in schools and the privacy issues that are raised. The webinar featured Evan Selinger, Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology; and Brenda Leong, a Senior Counsel at FPF working on biometrics and AI. The webinar was held on August 6, 2019.