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Facebook Inc. employees repeatedly chafed at what they viewed as anti-competitive or unethical practices by the company, internal chats show. But their concerns, voiced in 2012 and 2013, were overruled by senior managers including Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, who argued that the survival of the social network was more important.
Sophie Haskins, a software engineer, tells Motherboard how she decided it was time to quit her job at a tech company that contracts to ICE.
Understanding how the largest technology companies collect, use, and share user information across the internet.
Shows risks of making decisions using data that reflects inequities in American society.
A health care algorithm reflects underlying racial bias in society
How machine learning fails.
UN’s rapporteur on extreme poverty says in devastating account big tech companies are being allowed to go unregulated in ‘human rights free-zones’
Artificial intelligence and data analysis (AIDA) are increasingly entering the field of education. Within this context, the subfield of learning analytics (LA) has, since its inception, had a strong...
It won’t end employment discrimination. In fact, it could make it worse.
"This dubious thing is just a fact of life now."
With criticism of facial recognition resulting in bans across the country, companies are looking to improve the technology. However, the New York Daily News recently found that Google's attempts to improve facial recognition resulted in questionable…
How to ethically conduct online platform-based research remains an unsettled issue and the source of continued controversy. The Facebook emotional contagion stu...
Amazon paid $1 billion for the security company. Our data analysis questions the claims that purchase was based on.
Content analysis of ethics codes. Could be really interesting in Week 1.
Seth Vargo wrote code used in a platform called Chef. When he learned ICE was a customer, he wrestled with ICE using code he had personally written.
... about ethics.
Data & Society Researchers Jacob Metcalf, Emanuel Moss, and Founder and President danah boyd investigate the tensions that arise when adapting ethics initiatives at Silicon Valley tech companies. “By talking with people who are at the forefront of thinking through ethics from within the technology sector, we found that the commitment to ethics is in […]