Ethics, Info, Tech: Contested Voices, Values, Spaces

My Bloomsbury book "Ethics, Information, and Technology" was published on Nov. 13, 2025. Purchases can be made via Amazon and this Bloomsbury webpage: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/ethics-information-and-technology-9781440856662/

Monday, December 8, 2014

French Official Campaigns to Make ‘Right to be Forgotten’ Global; New York Times, 12/3/14

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Mark Scott, New York Times; French Official Campaigns to Make ‘Right to be Forgotten’ Global : "Europe is pressing for its ‘‘right to ...
Saturday, October 25, 2014

Research Is Just the Beginning: A Free People Must Have Open Access to the Law; Electronic Frontier Foundation, 10/23/14

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Corynne McSherry, Electronic Frontier Foundation; Research Is Just the Beginning: A Free People Must Have Open Access to the Law : "Th...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

How Sacred Are Our Patrons’ Privacy Rights? Answer Carefully; Library Journal, 10/23/14

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Rick Anderson, Library Journal; How Sacred Are Our Patrons’ Privacy Rights? Answer Carefully : "This month I want to address the issue...

Widespread Nature of Chapel Hill's Academic Fraud Is Laid Bare; Chronicle of Higher Education, 10/23/14

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Jack Stripling, Chronicle of Higher Education; Widespread Nature of Chapel Hill's Academic Fraud Is Laid Bare : "An academic-fraud...
Monday, October 6, 2014

Readers Debate Online Piracy and the Future of Digital Entertainment; New York Times, 9/29/14

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Jenna Wortham, New York Times; Readers Debate Online Piracy and the Future of Digital Entertainment : "On Sunday, The New York Times p...

What Kind of Town Bans Books?; New Yorker, 10/1/14

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Annie Julia Wyman, New Yorker; What Kind of Town Bans Books? : "The Highland Park Independent School District, and all the other Ameri...

The Censor in Each of Us; New Yorker, 5/6/14

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Colm Toibin, New Yorker; The Censor in Each of Us : "...we understood two things. First, that the urge to riot in a theatre to stop ...
Monday, September 29, 2014

China Scrambles To Censor Social Media; Reuters via HuffingtonPost, 9/29/14

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Paul Carsten, Reuters via HuffingtonPost; China Scrambles To Censor Social Media : "Chinese censors and opponents of the protests swee...
Sunday, September 28, 2014

The Unrepentant Bootlegger; New York Times, 9/27/14

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Jenna Wortham, New York Times; The Unrepentant Bootlegger : "To the government, Ms. Beshara was a thief, plain and simple. The Motion ...

A Stolen Video of My Daughter Went Viral. Here’s What I Learned; New York Times, 9/26/14

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Carrie Goldman, New York Times; A Stolen Video of My Daughter Went Viral. Here’s What I Learned : "In early September, someone downloa...

The Wilds of Education; New York Times, 9/27/14

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Frank Bruni, New York Times; The Wilds of Education: "WHEN it comes to bullying, to sexual assault, to gun violence, we want and need ...
Saturday, September 20, 2014

Online Renegade, Wanted in U.S., Shakes Up New Zealand Election; New York Times, 9/18/14

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Jonathan Hutchison, New York Times; Online Renegade, Wanted in U.S., Shakes Up New Zealand Election : "It was not an ordinary politica...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Data Scientists Want Big Data Ethics Standards; Information Week, 9/17/14

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Jeff Bertolucci, Information Week; Data Scientists Want Big Data Ethics Standards : "The vast majority of statisticians and data scien...
Thursday, September 11, 2014

Privacy, Security and GPS-Based Apps: An Inside Look From SCRUFF; Huffington Post, 9/10/14

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Eric Silverberg, Huffington Post; Privacy, Security and GPS-Based Apps: An Inside Look From SCRUFF : "SCRUFF wants to ensure our membe...
Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Reddit and 4chan Begin to Button Up; New York Times, 9/8/14

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Mike Isaac, New York Times; Reddit and 4chan Begin to Button Up : "Reddit said its moderators were unable to keep up with a torrent of...
Saturday, September 6, 2014

Officials Pledge Tighter Ethics Rules in Virginia; Associated Press via ABC News, 9/5/14

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Alan Suderman, Associated Press via ABC News; Officials Pledge Tighter Ethics Rules in Virginia : " "This is a dynamite charge bl...
Thursday, September 4, 2014

"Captain America," "Hulk" & More to Feature Anti-Bullying Variant Covers in October; ComicBookResources.com, 9/3/14

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Steve Sunu, ComicBookResources.com; "Captain America," "Hulk" & More to Feature Anti-Bullying Variant Covers in Octo...

Open data's Achilles heel: re-identification; ZDNet, 9/3/14

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Rob O'Neill, ZDNet; Open data's Achilles heel: re-identification: 'Governments around the globe are embracing the mantra of ope...
Wednesday, September 3, 2014

You Should Have a Say in Your Robot Car’s Code of Ethics; Wired, 9/2/14

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Jason Millar, Ethics; You Should Have a Say in Your Robot Car’s Code of Ethics : " We Must Embrace Complexity If we embrace robust i...
Saturday, August 16, 2014

Web Trolls Winning as Incivility Increases; New York Times, 8/14/14

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Farhad Manjoo, New York Times; Web Trolls Winning as Incivility Increases : "But Dr. Phillips, of Humboldt State, pointed out that man...
Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Senator Quits Montana Race After Charge of Plagiarism; New York Times, 8/7/14

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Jonathan Martin, New York Times; Senator Quits Montana Race After Charge of Plagiarism : "His withdrawal from the race comes about two...
Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Should Germans Read ‘Mein Kampf’?; New York Times, 7/7/14

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Peter Ross Range, New York Times; Should Germans Read ‘Mein Kampf’? : "Since then, although “Mein Kampf” has maintained a shadow prese...
Friday, July 4, 2014

Big Data Comes To College; NPR, 7/4/14

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Anya Kamenetz, NPR; Big Data Comes To College : "So academics are scrambling to come up with rules and procedures for gathering and us...

Privacy Group Complains to F.T.C. About Facebook Emotion Study; New York Times, 7/3/14

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Vindu Goel, New York Times; Privacy Group Complains to F.T.C. About Facebook Emotion Study : "The group, the Electronic Privacy Inform...
Thursday, July 3, 2014

Did Facebook's experiment violate ethics?; CNN, 7/2/14

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Robert Klitzman, CNN; Did Facebook's experiment violate ethics? : "Editor's note: Robert Klitzman is a professor of psychiatry...
Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Facebook’s Secret Manipulation of User Emotions Faces European Inquiries; New York Times, 7/2/14

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Facebook’s Secret Manipulation of User Emotions Faces European Inquiries: "In response to widespread public anger, several European da...

Why I Left 60 Minutes: The big networks say they care about uncovering the truth. That’s not what I saw; Politico, 6/29/14

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Charles Lewis, Politico; Why I Left 60 Minutes: The big networks say they care about uncovering the truth. That’s not what I saw : "Ma...

Online, the Lying Is Easy: In ‘Virtual Unreality,’ Charles Seife Unfriends Gullibility; New York Times, 7/1/14

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[Book Review of Charles Seife's VIRTUAL UNREALITY: Just Because the Internet Told You, How Do You Know It’s True?] Dwight Garner, New Y...

On the Next Docket: How the First Amendment Applies to Social Media; New York Times, 6/30/14

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Adam Liptak, New York Times; On the Next Docket: How the First Amendment Applies to Social Media : "Mr. Elonis was convicted under a f...

Here Are All the Other Experiments Facebook Plans to Run on You: An exclusive preview; Slate, 6/30/14

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David Auerbach, Slate; Here Are All the Other Experiments Facebook Plans to Run on You: An exclusive preview : "Facebook and two outsi...

Facebook experiment may have broken UK law; Aljazeera, 7/2/14

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Aljazeera; Facebook experiment may have broken UK law : "A British data regulator has been investigating whether Facebook Inc broke da...

Facebook’s experiment is just the latest to manipulate you in the name of research; Pew Research Center, 7/2/14

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Rich Morin, Pew Research Center; Facebook’s experiment is just the latest to manipulate you in the name of research : "But is what Fac...

Should Facebook Manipulate Users?: Jaron Lanier on Lack of Transparency in Facebook Study; New York Times, 6/30/14

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Jaron Lanier, New York Times; Should Facebook Manipulate Users?: Jaron Lanier on Lack of Transparency in Facebook Study : "Research wi...

Facebook Study Sparks Soul-Searching and Ethical Questions: Incident Shines Light on How Companies, Researchers Tap Data Created Online; Wall Street Journal, 6/30/14

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Reed Albergotti and Elizabeth Dwoskin, Wall Street Journal; Facebook Study Sparks Soul-Searching and Ethical Questions: Incident Shines Ligh...
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Facebook Added 'Research' To User Agreement 4 Months After Emotion Manipulation Study; Forbes, 6/30/14

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Kashmir Hill, Forbes; Facebook Added 'Research' To User Agreement 4 Months After Emotion Manipulation Study : "Unless you’ve s...
Monday, June 30, 2014

Major Ruling Shields Privacy of Cellphones: Supreme Court Says Phones Can’t Be Searched Without a Warrant; New York Times, 6/25/14

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Adam Liptak, New York Times; Major Ruling Shields Privacy of Cellphones: Supreme Court Says Phones Can’t Be Searched Without a Warrant : ...
Friday, June 27, 2014

Hillary Clinton’s ‘Hard Choices’ Blocked in China; New York Times, 6/27/14

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Jane Perlez, New York Times; Hillary Clinton’s ‘Hard Choices’ Blocked in China : "The new memoir of Hillary Rodham Clinton, “Hard Choi...
Sunday, June 22, 2014

Stem-cell advances may quell ethics debate; (Louisville, Ky.) Courier-Journal via USA Today, 6/22/14

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Laura Ungar, (Louisville, Ky.) Courier-Journal via USA Today; Stem-cell advances may quell ethics debate : "Recent strides in stem-cel...
Saturday, June 21, 2014

Unblinking Eyes Track Employees: Workplace Surveillance Sees Good and Bad; New York Times, 6/21/14

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Steve Lohr, New York Times; Unblinking Eyes Track Employees: Workplace Surveillance Sees Good and Bad : "A digital Big Brother is comi...

‘Klinghoffer’ Composer Responds to Met’s Decision; New York Times, 6/18/14

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Michael Cooper, New York Times; ‘Klinghoffer’ Composer Responds to Met’s Decision : "Mr. Gelb, a champion of Mr. Adams’s who was the f...
Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Colleges and Evangelicals Collide on Bias Policy; New York Times, 6/9/14

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Michael Paulson, New York Times; Colleges and Evangelicals Collide on Bias Policy : "Similar conflicts are playing out on a handful of...

Kennedy letters fiercely protected for decades; Boston Globe, 6/10/14

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Matt Viser, Boston Globe; Kennedy letters fiercely protected for decades : "In 1966, in a letter to a friend in Ireland, Jacqueline Ke...
Saturday, May 31, 2014

Why freelancers need a code of ethics; Forbes, 5/30/14

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Vickie Elmer, Forbes; Why freelancers need a code of ethics : "In a business world filled with ambiguity, creating clarity around your...
Sunday, May 18, 2014

In Season of Protest, Haverford Speaker Is Latest to Bow Out; New York Times, 5/13/14

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Richard Perez-Pena, New York Times; In Season of Protest, Haverford Speaker Is Latest to Bow Out : "Haverford College on Tuesday joine...

Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Lately, Coding; New York Times, 5/10/14

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Matt Richtel, New York Times; Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Lately, Coding : "The spread of coding instruction, while still nascen...

Warning: The Literary Canon Could Make Students Squirm; New York Times, 5/17/14

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Jennifer Medina, New York Times; Warning: The Literary Canon Could Make Students Squirm : "The most vociferous criticism has focused o...
Thursday, May 1, 2014

U.S. Attorney Subpoenas Records of Ethics Panel; New York Times, 4/30/14

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Susanne Craig and William K. Rashbaum, New York Times; U.S. Attorney Subpoenas Records of Ethics Panel : "The top federal prosecutor i...
Monday, April 28, 2014

The real tragedy of Donald Sterling's racism: it took this long for us to notice: The LA Clippers owner made his millions off racist housing policies. Where was the NBA and presidential outrage then?; Guardian, 4/28/14

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Kevin B. Blackistone, Guardian; The real tragedy of Donald Sterling's racism: it took this long for us to notice: The LA Clippers owner ...

Open data: slow down Whitehall's approach has the subtlety of a smash-and-grab-raider and it must take its own advice on best practice; Guardian, 4/18/14

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Editorial, Guardian; Open data: slow down Whitehall's approach has the subtlety of a smash-and-grab-raider and it must take its own advi...
Sunday, April 27, 2014

A Disturbing Tape and a Potential Moral Quandary: Comments Linked to Sterling Put Clippers Players in Ethical Bind, 4/26/14

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William C. Rhoden, New York Times; A Disturbing Tape and a Potential Moral Quandary: Comments Linked to Sterling Put Clippers Players in Eth...
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Kip Currier, PhD, JD
Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information.Education: PhD, University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences (2007); Juris Doctor (JD), University of Pittsburgh School of Law; Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS), University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences. Member of American Bar Association (ABA), ABA IP Law Section, ABA Science & Technology Section; Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T); Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE)
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