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If you write code for a living, there’s a chance that at some point in your career, someone will ask you to code something a little deceitful – if not outright unethical. This happened to me back in the year 2000. And it’s something I’ll never be able
Personal information leaked in sensitive contexts can spark violence, discrimination, exclusionary policies. Yet my NGO shares confidential data freely
New and emerging forms of data, including posts harvested from social media sites such as Twitter, have become part of the sociologist’s data diet. In particula...
Courts, banks, and other institutions are using automated data analysis systems to make decisions about your life. Let’s not leave it up to the algorithm makers to decide whether they’re doing it appropriately.
The prospect of digital manipulation on major online platforms has reached fever pitch in the last election cycle in the United States. Jonathan Zittrain’s conc
One of the biggest civil liberties issues raised by technology today is whether, when, and how we allow computer algorithms to make decisions that affect people’s lives. We’re starting to see this in
Edward Snowden’s revelation about the National Security Agency’s information-gathering practices alerted the public to the nefarious uses of data ...
“If technology can mold us, and technologists are the ones who shape that technology, we should demand some level of ethics training for technologists.”
By Alan Rubel and Kyle Jones, Published on 05/08/17
The company’s content moderation guide suggests it hasn’t come to grips with its unique role in the world.
And now critics worry about what comes next.
Leaked policies guiding moderators on what content to allow are likely to fuel debate about social media giant’s ethics
The ever-expanding operations of Uber are defined by two interlocking and zealously guarded sets of information: the things the world-dominating ride-hailing company knows about you, and the things it doesn’t want you to know about it. Both kinds of secrets have been in play in the Superior Court of California in San…
In May of 2017 the Wannacry Ransomware swept across the world, impacting thousands of computers. The attack affected hospitals, businesses, and universities and the damage has yet to be fully calcu…
This Article examines the matrix of vulnerabilities that low-income people face as a result of the collection and aggregation of big data and the application of
Here’s one way to confuse it.
Open up a web browser or power up a smartphone—pretty much essential for modern-day living—and you’re walking straight into a privacy minefield. That much you know. Especially after the news earlier this week that Unroll.me, a popular service that lets you unsubscribe from multiple email lists with a single click, was…