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There needs to be a radical transformation of Facebook and Google's surveillance business model as it poses a systemic threat to human rights,
When I learned that Google was acquiring the intimate medical records of 50 million patients, I couldn’t stay silent
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.
Today’s post is from Dr. Hannah McGregor __________________________________________ In “#transform(ing)DH Writing and Research: An Autoethnography of Digital Humanities and Feminist Ethics,” …
Part one of a two-part series about the Toronto Public Library's decision to host Meghan Murphy in their space. This part links to some responses to the situation before presenting one of the reasons why I think Vickery Bowles has made a terrible mistake.
UN’s rapporteur on extreme poverty says in devastating account big tech companies are being allowed to go unregulated in ‘human rights free-zones’
OA ebook!
Technology ethics are in focus after a developer retracted contributions to Chef for political reasons, causing outage. Some IT pros say ethical concerns factor into their choice of tools and shoul...
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...
The Open Source movement, as championed by the OSI, prizes absolute openness above all other concerns...
"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…
Content analysis of ethics codes. Could be really interesting in Week 1.