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Biometric systems used by ICE to round up migrants and separate families didn’t come from nowhere. They’ve been built over decades by both parties.
“Digital exhaust” from online life could be transformed into health insights. Should it be?
Kentucky Judges must consult algorithms for cash bail decisions; now more whites get bail.
You gave them your data in exchange for a driver’s license. DMVs are making tens of millions of dollars selling it, documents obtained by Motherboard show.
In the era of Big Data, we’ve come to believe that, with enough information, human behavior is predictable. But number crunching can lead us perilously wrong.
Casually browsing the web comes with the expectation that you’re probably going to be tracked by data brokers who are thirsty for your internet habits, but one might also expect that on certain corners of the web, your information is treated with more sensitivity. But a new report found that even on mental health…
What happened to a Portland student sheds light on how a desire to thwart a shooting can have unintended consequences.
WOW, this guy. WOW. Piece of WORK.
Major critique of "nudging" practices.
FFS FACEBOOK
In our latest privacy experiment, we bought one banana with the new Apple Card — and another with the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa from Chase. Here’s who tracked, mined and shared our data.
Schools are adding ethics classes to their computer-science curricula. The reading assignments: science fiction.
People have a tendency to treat technology and data as neutral, sterile and immune to mortal failings. Yet the digital tools we use at schools, jobs ...
Google's slippery ethics slope.
THIS IS SO GOOD
Anything “public” on social media may be fair game, but researchers should be more ethical about using that data