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Resisting digital colonialism

Google and Facebook Likely to Benefit From Europe’s Privacy Crackdown Big tech companies gain while smaller online ad firms are squeezed under the European Union’s GDPR, which takes effect in May.

There will be little privacy in the workplace of the future

RAND report: The Risks of Bias and Errors in Artificial Intelligence

Your Next Job Interview Could Be with a Racist Bot

The Internet Apologizes... Even those who designed our digital world are aghast at what they created. A breakdown of what went wrong — from the architects who built it. Jaron Lanier, Richard M. Stallman,...

Algorithmic Accountability: A Primer

Facebook knows a ton about your health. Now they want to make money off it.

To work for society, data scientists need a hippocratic oath with teeth Data scientists need to understand the weight of their influence and the limitations of their wisdom, says Cathy O'Neil. The Weapons of Math Destruction author lays out her plan for an effective system

A study finds thousands of apps targeted to children were sending data to advertisers, some including GPS location

Jaron Lanier: "We cannot have a society in which, if two people wish to communicate, the only way that can happen is if it's financed by a third person who wishes to manipulate them,"

PREVENTING BIG DATA DISCRIMINATION IN CANADA: ADDRESSING DESIGN, CONSENT AND SOVEREIGNTY CHALLENGES

ALGORITHMIC IMPACT ASSESSMENTS: A PRACTICAL FRAMEWORK FOR PUBLIC AGENCY ACCOUNTABILITY

YouTube illegally collects data on children, say child protection groups Complaint filed with US watchdog urges sanctions for Google allegedly failing to comply with child protection laws around data collection and ads

The New York Times publishes details of how autonomous cars are being allowed to be tested with real people on real roads, with mixed results, including deaths.

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Computer science faces an ethics crisis

How Facebook exploited us all

YouTube, the Great Radicalizer

Self-driven 4-wheel robots are already causing deaths. It's not possible make them safe for all. Thus, they will have to be explicitly programmed to choose who to kill in case total safety is not a choice. Who will choose the victims? Who will be liable?