Ben Williamson ponders the controversy of using genetic data from students to personalize education.

The Oath of the Pledge of the Computing Professional

Author(s): Caswell, ML | Abstract: Much recent discussion about social justice in archival studies has assumed a legalistic, rights-based framework to delineate the role of records, archives, and archivists in both the violation of human rights and in holding individuals and governments accountable for basic human rights, such as the right to life, privacy, and freedom of expression. Yet decades of feminist scholarship have called into question the universality of a rights-based framework, arguing instead that an ethics of care is a more inclusive and apt model for envisioning and enacting a more just society. This article proposes a shift in the theoretical model used by archivists and archival studies scholars to address social justice concerns – from that based on individual rights to a model based on feminist ethics. In a feminist ethics approach, archivists are seen as caregivers, bound to records creators, subjects, users, and communities through a web of mutual affective responsibility. This article proposes four interrelated shifts in these archival relationships, based on radical empathy.

Google collects far more information about us than Facebook. But the Google data that our tech columnist downloaded on himself contained fewer surprises and was more easily deleted.

Decolonial Sensibilities: Indigenous Research and Engaging with Archives in Contemporary Colonial Canada - L'Internationale online

The TRC website has been archived using the Wayback Machine software. You can view the archived version by clicking here. The Wayback Machine is an archive system for websites.

When people understand ad tracking, they like ads less. IMAGINE THAT.

Joy Reid is why we need multiple web archives.

Between the creation of a social rating system and street cameras with facial recognition capabilities, technology reports coming out of China have ...

What happens when Google knows you're depressed? Mark Brown reports.

This primer explores issues of algorithmic accountability, or the process of assigning responsibility for harm when algorithmic decision-making results in discriminatory and inequitable outcomes.

Open sharing of social media data raises new ethical questions that researchers, repositories and data curators must confront, with little existing guidance available. In this paper, the authors draw upon their experiences in their multiple roles as data curators, academic librarians, and researchers to propose the STEP framework for curating and sharing social media data. The framework is intended to be used by data curators facilitating open publication of social media data. Two case studies from the Dryad Digital Repository serve to demonstrate implementation of the STEP framework. The STEP framework can serve as one important ‘step’ along the path to achieving safe, ethical, and reproducible social media research practice.

Even those who designed our digital world are aghast at what they created. A breakdown of what went wrong.

Zuck is a f***ing liar.

Exclusive: Profile data was scraped without user consent or knowledge to "build a three-dimensional picture" on millions of people.

An experiment with embedding "growth-mindset" messaging in software appeared to help students persist when they encountered difficulty—and raised ethical concerns.