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Why data science is a profound threat for queer people
The human-centered approach that can combat algorithmic bias.
In an edited extract from his upcoming book Ruined by Design, Silicon Valley veteran Mike Monteiro explains how designers destroyed the world.
Ethics smells.
An endless job search compounded by rumors of being blacklisted by certain businesses. Anxious gossip about who is and isn't mentioned in the latest documentaries and news reports. And probing questions from outsiders on how they could ever have worked at the disgraced company.
The new data ecosystem of trust: How data trusts, collaboratives & coops can help govern data for maximum public benefit
Any one of us might end up helping the facial recognition industry, perhaps captured in moments of extraordinary vulnerability.
The POLITICAL character also.
Last month, Google announced that its Nest Secure would be updated to work with Google Assistant software. The problem? Google never told users its product had a microphone to begin with. Simple oversight or invasion of privacy? We break it down.
The idea of gathering mugshots for people's amusement is an ethical quagmire the author does not even seem to have noticed.
We need to stop perpetuating the false dichotomy between technology and the humanities. To do otherwise would be detrimental to society.
Science and Engineering Ethics - Moral responsibility is one of the core concepts in engineering ethics and consequently in most engineering ethics education. Yet, despite a growing awareness that...
OMG THESE PEOPLE ARE AMAZING I WANT TO HUG THEM FOREVER (if they're okay with hugs of course)
This needs an explainer liek whoa, but it might be a useful foundation for a course assignment.
In recent years, critical scholarship has drawn attention to increasing power differentials between corporations that use data and people whose data is used. A ...
Two sample algorithms reached the same conclusion naturally: They should collude.
Google’s sibling company Sidewalk Labs offers planning agencies the ability to model an entire city’s patterns of movement.
As the US Senate debates a new bill, a data-governance expert presents a plan to protect liberty and freedom in the digital age.