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

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Thursday, January 31, 2019

Facebook has declared sovereignty; The Washington Post, January 31, 2019

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Molly Roberts, The Washington Post; Facebook has declared sovereignty "That’s a lot of control, as Facebook has implicitly conceded b...

An angry historian ripped the ultrarich over tax avoidance at Davos. Then one was given the mic.; The Washington Post, January 31, 2019

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Eli Rosenberg, The Washington Post; An angry historian ripped the ultrarich over tax avoidance at Davos. Then one was given the mic. ...

The doorbells have eyes: The privacy battle brewing over home security cameras; The Washington Post, January 31, 2019

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Geoffrey A. Fowler, The Washington Post; The doorbells have eyes: The privacy battle brewing over home security cameras "We should re...

The Role Of The Centre For Data Ethics And Innovation - What It Means For The UK; Mondaq, January 22, 2019

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Jocelyn S. Paulley and David Brennan , Gowling WLG, Mondaq; The Role Of The Centre For Data Ethics And Innovation - What It Means For The...

Recent events highlight an unpleasant scientific practice: ethics dumping; The Economist, January 31, 2019

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The Economist; Recent events highlight an unpleasant scientific practice: ethics dumping Rich-world scientists conduct questionable experi...

State looking for a few ethical people; The Garden Island: Kauai's newspaper since 1901, January 31, 2019

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Editorial, The Garden Island: Kauai's newspaper since 1901; State looking for a few ethical people "Not so easy to say what’s eth...

Facebook has been paying teens $20 a month for access to all of their personal data; Vox, January 30, 2019

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Kaitlyn Tiffany, Vox; Facebook has been paying teens $20 a month for access to all of their personal data "The shocking “research” pr...
Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Warning! Everything Is Going Deep: ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’; The New York Times, January 29, 2019

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Thomas L. Friedman , The New York Times; Warning! Everything Is Going Deep: ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’ [Kip Currier: I ju...

Apple Was Slow to Act on FaceTime Bug That Allows Spying on iPhones; The New York Times, January 29, 2019

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Nicole Perlroth , The New York Times; Apple Was Slow to Act on FaceTime Bug That Allows Spying on iPhones "A bug this easy to exploi...
Tuesday, January 29, 2019

FaceTime Is Eroding Trust in Tech Privacy paranoiacs have been totally vindicated.; The Atlantic, January 29, 2019

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Ian Bogost, The Atlantic; FaceTime Is Eroding Trust in Tech Privacy paranoiacs have been totally vindicated. " Trustworthy is...

New definition of privacy needed for the social media age; The San Francisco Chronicle, January 28, 2019

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Jordan Cunningham, The San Francisco Chronicle; New definition of privacy needed for the social media age "To bring about meaningful...

The unnatural ethics of AI could be its undoing; The Outline, January 29, 2019

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Tom Whyman , The Outline; The unnatural ethics of AI could be its undoing "When I used to teach philosophy at universities, I always ...

Meet the data guardians taking on the tech giants; BBC, January 29, 2019

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Matthew Wall, BBC; Meet the data guardians taking on the tech giants "Ever since the world wide web went public in 1993, we have trad...

Big tech firms still don’t care about your privacy; The Washington Post, January 28, 2019

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Rob Pegoraro , The Washington Post; Big tech firms still don’t care about your privacy "Today is Data Privacy Day . Please clap. ...

4 Ways AI Education and Ethics Will Disrupt Society in 2019; EdSurge, January 28, 2019

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Tara Chklovski , EdSurge; 4 Ways AI Education and Ethics Will Disrupt Society in 2019  "I see four AI use and ethics trends set to d...

Video and audio from my closing keynote at Friday's Grand Re-Opening of the Public Domain; BoingBoing, January 27, 2019

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Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing; Video and audio from my closing keynote at Friday's Grand Re-Opening of the Public Domain "On Friday, ...
Monday, January 28, 2019

Ethics as Conversation: A Process for Progress; MIT Sloan Management Review, January 28, 2019

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R. Edward Freeman and Bidhan (Bobby). L. Parmar, MIT Sloan Management Review; Ethics as Conversation: A Process for Progress "We bega...

Embedding ethics in computer science curriculum: Harvard initiative seen as a national model; Harvard, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, January 28, 2019

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Paul Karoff, Harvard, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Embedding ethics in computer science curriculum: Harvard ...
Sunday, January 27, 2019

Andrew Gillum’s Florida Ethics Troubles Just Got Worse; Slate, January 25, 2019

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Mark Joseph Stern, Slate; Andrew Gillum’s Florida Ethics Troubles Just Got Worse "However Gillum chooses to proceed, it’s clear that ...

Five myths about conspiracy theories; The Washington Post, January 17, 2019

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Rob Brotherton; Rob Brotherton is an academic psychologist at Barnard College and author of “Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy ...

Can we make artificial intelligence ethical?; The Washington Post, January 23, 2019

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Stephen A. Schwarzman , The Washington Post; Can we make artificial intelligence ethical? " Stephen A. Schwarzman is chairman, CEO...
Friday, January 25, 2019

A Study on Driverless-Car Ethics Offers a Troubling Look Into Our Values; The New Yorker, January 24, 2019

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Caroline Lester, The New Yorker; A Study on Driverless-Car Ethics Offers a Troubling Look Into Our Values "The U.S. government has cl...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

Drones unleashed against invasive rats in the Galápagos; Nature, January 24, 2019

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Emma Marris, Nature; Drones unleashed against invasive rats in the Galápagos "One advantage of using drones, Morley says, is that it ...

Drone Scare Near New York City Shows Hazard Posed to Air Travel; The New York Times, January 23, 2019

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Patrick McGeehan and Cade Metz , The New York Times; Drone Scare Near New York City Shows Hazard Posed to Air Travel "The disruptio...

I Found $90 in the Subway. Is It Yours?; The New York Times, January 24, 2019

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Niraj Chokshi , The New York Times; I Found $90 in the Subway. Is It Yours? "As I got off a train in Manhattan on Wednesday, I paid...

This Time It’s Russia’s Emails Getting Leaked; The Daily Beast, January 24, 2019

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Kevin Poulsen, The Daily Beast; This Time It’s Russia’s Emails Getting Leaked "Russian oligarchs and Kremlin apparatchiks may find th...

Trapped in a hoax: survivors of conspiracy theories speak out; The Guardian, January 24, 2019

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Ed Pilkington , The Guardian; Trapped in a hoax: survivors of conspiracy theories speak out "Conspiracy theories used to be seen as b...
Tuesday, January 22, 2019

If Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Talk, Britain Is Waiting: Facebook leadership has a history of lashing out instead of opening up; The New York Times, January 22, 2019

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Damian Collins , The New York Times; If Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Talk, Britain Is Waiting: Facebook leadership has a history of lashing ou...

The AI Arms Race Means We Need AI Ethics; Forbes, January 22, 2019

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Kasia Borowska, Forbes; The AI Arms Race Means We Need AI Ethics "In an AI world, the currency is data. Consumers and citizens trade ...

Leading privacy scholar to speak in Dublin; Law Society Gazette Ireland, January 21, 2019

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Law Society Gazette Ireland; Leading privacy scholar to speak in Dublin "“Navigating Privacy in a Data Centric World” is the topic fo...
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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
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