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As Big Data tools reshape health care, biased datasets and unaccountable algorithms threaten to further disempower patients.
Alphabet Inc's Google this year moved to tighten control over its scientists' papers by launching a "sensitive topics" review, and in at least three cases requested authors refrain from casting its technology in a negative light, according to internal communications and...
An example of people Making Shit Up and hiding it in the haystack of other data
Using contract as an ethics leverage point.
A group of Google artificial intelligence researchers sent a sweeping list of demands to management calling for new policies and leadership changes, escalating a conflict at one of the company’s prized units.
Researchers say YouTube's policies and algorithms are still too opaque.
A departing Facebook employee said the social network's failure to act on hate speech “makes it embarrassing to work here.”
It’s not just the superbloom, either.
New surveillance tools can help you scout the coffee shop line — or check on your ex.
Technologists must take responsibility for the toxic ideologies that our data sets and algorithms reflect.
This is the prepared transcript of ‘Knowledge is power: an introduction to critical librarianship’, a talk I was invited to give at a professional development day for the NSW branch of …
A growing group of lawyers are uncovering, navigating, and fighting the automated systems that deny the poor housing, jobs, and basic services.
Logic School will offer workers 12 weeks of education on how to build on the growing movement of activism inside tech companies.
The Right to be Forgotten as it relates to digital archives, in how privacy can intersect in day to day decisions around content removal and takedown requests.
Perhaps the lesson to take from this year of living online is not about making better technology. It’s about recognizing technology’s limits.
Stewart, as library director, used real people’s information to create false library cards to boost circulation numbers, the criminal complaint said.
Nature - Journals and researchers are under fire for controversial studies using this technology. And a Nature survey reveals that many researchers in this field think there is a problem.