Showing posts with label Yonatan Zunger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yonatan Zunger. Show all posts

Saturday, April 7, 2018

The Ethics Of Tech; NPR, Weekend Edition Saturday, April 7, 2018

NPR, Weekend Edition Saturday; The Ethics Of Tech

"NPR's Scott Detrow talks with former Google engineer Yonatan Zunger. He argues the tech industry should operate with a "higher standard for care."

SCOTT DETROW, HOST:
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be facing tough questions when he appears before Congress in the coming days. At the top of the list, the scandal involving Cambridge Analytica. That's the company that's been accused of improperly obtaining data from millions of Facebook users, then using that information for its work on political campaigns, reportedly including the Trump campaign.
Let's hear now from someone with a long history in Silicon Valley. Yonatan Zunger, the former Google engineer, recently wrote in The Boston Globe that this scandal is just more evidence that the entire tech industry faces an ethical crisis..."