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Facebook software engineer Ashok Chandwaney quit the company Tuesday to protest CEO Mark Zuckerberg's policies on hate speech and their impact on people of color. He is one of thousands of employees that have protested the company's decisions and one of several who have made their resignations public on the company's internal messaging system.
A mesmerising, unaccountable kind of algorithm – machine learning – is blinding governments to the technology’s often disastrous flaws
The Ethical Source movement is questioning the central assumptions of open source culture.
The interpretation of the terms 'information' and 'ethics' is often culturally situated. A common understanding is contingent to facilitating dialogue concerning the novel ethical issues we face du...
Today we travel to a future where you can sell your personal data directly to a company, to get a better deal on a car or a house or a…
The coronavirus pandemic created a surge in demand for exam proctoring tools. Here’s why universities should stop using them.
The gigaleak covers classics from the SNES and N64.
Researchers said the company ignored their work and then stopped them from pursuing topics related to bias altogether.
As the US heads toward a crucial and contentious presidential election, the world's largest social network is facing an unprecedented cultural crisis.
As governments struggle to understand the problem and how to respond, solutions using data have boomed – from contact tracing mobile apps that collect and share data about our whereabouts or proximity to others, to data dashboards using location data from mobile phone apps and cell towers.
Is online shaming just a new version of something that humans have always done, or is it substantially different now that the shaming is taking place via the Internet?
Serious ethical shortcomings exist in Large Vision Datasets with human subjects. Reverse image search is evolving rapidly. We need to take action now!
The developers of Tails and a video player targeted by Facebook and the FBI in an operation to catch a child predator are still in the dark about how the feds hacked the software.
Doing good and not bad
Accessibility cannot be an afterthought in product design.