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A Silicon Valley lobby enrolled elite academia to avoid legal restrictions on artificial intelligence.
A really nice breakdown of how computing research can aid social justice instead of damaging it.
Millions of Flickr images were sucked into a database called MegaFace. Now some of those faces may have the ability to sue.
Faced with an ever-shrinking pool of potential applicants, admissions officials are increasingly turning to tracking software to hit enrollment targets.
Compliance isn't the same as an ethical commitment to privacy.
Ethics "training" can be counterproductive. Asking people "why are you ethical?" reinforces their presupposition that they ARE, giving them license not to be.
Millions of shoppers are expected to take advantage of online bargains over the Thanksgiving holiday—but buyer beware. Many e-commerce purchases are pushed by misleading tactics designed to get consumers to buy goods they otherwise wouldn’t.
Depending on who you ask, the right to own data as property—and thus, choose how to share it and sell it—helps different players.
Discovery and Web Services Librarian, University of Alberta
Opinion | We Read 150 Privacy Policies. They Were an Incomprehensible Disaster. - The New York Times
The average policy took 18 minutes to finish and required a college-level reading ability.
There needs to be a radical transformation of Facebook and Google's surveillance business model as it poses a systemic threat to human rights,
"I saw tech workers at Microsoft (GitHub), Google, and others start taking stands and achieve incremental gains and I thought why not me."
Across the United States and Europe, notice and consent, the act of clicking that “I have read and agree” to a platform’s terms of service, is the central devic
Google has 50M people's medical records but won't merge them with other Google data.
Doing the right thing can be hard when it’s bad for business.
When I learned that Google was acquiring the intimate medical records of 50 million patients, I couldn’t stay silent
“The larger point is that it’s unaccountable and opaque, and Apple doesn’t really care.”