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Employees are defying a company ban on talking publicly about Amazon practices.
TECH ETHICS & POLICY SCAVENGER HUNT! This exercise was built by Casey Fiesler for her undergraduate information ethics & policy class. It was designed to be completed in class in groups of five. This could easily be adapted for an individual assignment, or as a guided activity in class without ...
How China’s new state surveillance culture is changing the country’s centuries-old Confucian-inspired understanding of ‘face’
A conversation about making the world a better place.
CW: brief allusions to violent crimes near the bottom of the post “What does it matter if I have your location pings?! We delete them after 24 hours!” privacy. fucking. matters. We live in an age where privacy should be more important than ever. An age when we have the technologies to track and surveil with alarming precision. And that all exists in a regulatory framework that is—to put it as mildly as possible—totally fucking incapable of protecting the privacy of the average citizen.
There’s nothing easy about data ethics in an age where virtually everything we do leaves a data trail. But to curb the potential for harm—and harness data’s power for good—government CDOs must step up to the challenge.
Lit review.
Do you want to protest your company’s crappy record on sexual harassment? Are you thinking of unionizing? Here’s the Motherboard Guide to Secure Labor Organizing.
This brief presentation was part of a panel at MLA 2020 in Seattle entitled “Being Human, Seeming Human.” The panel brought together researchers from Microsoft with a couple of DH folks (me and Mar…
Facebook, Google and other major tech firms were every student’s dream workplaces. Until they weren’t.
I recently took part in a meeting at the Atlanta IAPP KnowledgeNet on the ethics of privacy. Led by Contrast Security Data Privacy Director Suzette Corley and O
A real problem for any research method relying on humans (e.g. crowdsourcing) to classify utterances. Suggested mitigator at end.
Sean McDonald argues that companies offering digital products — whether an algorithm or infrastructure — should be required to warranty not only their products, but how those products are meant to be used.
YouTube said Monday it is scaling back its data collection and what kind of ads can run alongside children's content, part of an effort to satisfy regulators who said it violated rules around underage viewers.
Opens with a rather useful glossary.
The systems highlight how widespread surveillance has increasingly become a fact of life: Students “should have all the rights, responsibilities and privileges that an adult has. So why do we treat them so differently?”