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Hired through an online gig economy platform, workers unknowingly helped Google improve its artificial intelligence military-targeting software.
Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity, similar to Facebook’s Onavo Protect app that Apple banned in June and that was removed in August. Facebook sidesteps the App Store and […]
He said Facebook users want tailored ads. According to our research, that’s not true.
Algorithms are best at pursuing a single mathematical objective—but humans often want multiple incompatible things.
GREAT intro piece.
The Principles based on the organization Keeping Private and Confidential information gained in your professional Work.
Instagram has been earning money from businesses flooding its social network with spam notifications. Instagram hypocritically continues to sell ad space to services that charge clients for fake followers or that automatically follow/unfollow other people to get them to follow the client back. This is despite Instagram reiterating a ban on these businesses in November […]
"Like most technologies, machine learning is neutral." Yeah, that is some bullshit right there.
Nice segment on programming ethics.
We live in a surveillance society. Our every preference, inquiry, whim, desire, relationship, and fear can be seen, recorded, and monetized by thousands of
How Russia did what it did in 2016.
Ethics and Information Technology - With the increase in the costs of providing education and concerns about financial responsibility, heightened consideration of accountability and results,...
The technology could revolutionize policing, medicine, even agriculture—but its applications can easily be weaponized.
Olivier Nourry discusses Ableism which considers people with disabilities as unworthy and how inaccessibility is a by-product of ableism-based thinking.
Privacy professionals find themselves in an age where data ethics have become part of the global conversation, receiving unprecedented attention worldwide. Just
The opening summary is pretty great.
If you work in tech and you’re not thinking about ethics, you’re bad at your job
Google executives ignored internal warnings about their censored China search plan and threatened that employees would be fired if they spoke out.