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/

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Congress and Trump Agreed They Want a National Privacy Law. It Is Nowhere in Sight.; The New York Times, October 1, 2019

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David McCabe, The New York Times; Congress and Trump Agreed They Want a National Privacy Law. It Is Nowhere in Sight. "...

The Last Hope for Net Neutrality; Slate, October 1, 2019

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April Glaser, Slate; The Last Hope for Net Neutrality A federal appeals court upheld the FCC’s repeal of the open-internet rules. But it a...
Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Roboethics: The Human Ethics Applied to Robots; Interesting Engineering, September 22, 2019

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Susan Fourtané , Interesting Engineering; Roboethics: The Human ...

Metro’s ethics changes are welcome. But they’re only a start.; The Washington Post, September 29, 2019

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Editorial Board , The Washington Post; Metro’s ethics changes are welcome. But they’re only a start. "THE REPUTATION of former Metr...

A Teenager Killed Himself After Being Outed as Bisexual. His Family Wants Justice.; The New York Times, September 30, 2019

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Emily S. Rueb , The New York Times; A Teenager Killed Himself After Being Outed as Bisexual. His Family Wants Justice. The family and c...
Monday, September 30, 2019

For Vulnerable Populations, the Thorny Ethics of Genetic Data Collection; Undark, September 30, 2019

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Adrian Pecotic , Undark; For Vulnerable Populations, the Thorny Ethics of Genetic Data Collection "Research to capture these snapshot...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019

‘Nerd,’ ‘Nonsmoker,’ ‘Wrongdoer’: How Might A.I. Label You?; The New York Times, September 20, 2019

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Cade Metz , The New York Times; ‘Nerd,’ ‘Nonsmoker,’ ‘Wrongdoer’: How Might A.I. Label You? ImageNet Roulette, a digital art project and...
Tuesday, September 24, 2019

For authoritarians, stifling the arts is of a piece with demonising minorities; The Guardian, September 22, 2019

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Elif Shafak, The Guardian; For authoritarians, stifling the arts is of a piece with demonising minorities "Art and literature are – a...

Kona Stories Book Store to Celebrate Banned Book Week; Big Island Now, September 21, 2019

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Big Island Now; Kona Stories Book Store to Celebrate Banned Book Week "At its heart, Banned Books Week is a celebration of the freedo...

Harry Potter and the Poorly-Read Exorcists; The New York Times, September 23, 2019

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Margaret Renkl , The New York Times; Harry Potter and the Poorly-Read Exorcists " Little surprise, then, that two decades of effort...
Monday, September 23, 2019

M.I.T. Media Lab, Already Rattled by the Epstein Scandal, Has a New Worry; The New York Times, September 22, 2019

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Noam Cohen , The New York Times; M.I.T. Media Lab, Already Rattled by the Epstein Scandal, Has a New Worry "Four researchers who work...

Manifesto Promotes ‘Ethics, Equity, and Empathy’; STREETSBLOGUSA,September 20, 2019

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Aaron Short , STREETSBLOGUSA; Manifesto Promotes ‘Ethics, Equity, and Empathy’ A design firm publishes a new credo for engineers...
Saturday, September 21, 2019

'The Personification Of Human Decency': Nina Totenberg Remembers Cokie Roberts; NPR, September 17, 2019

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Nina Totenberg, NPR; 'The Personification Of Human Decency': Nina Totenberg Remembers Cokie Roberts "To know Cokie was to see...

Banned Books Week Celebrates 'Freedom To Read'; WESA, Pittsburgh's NPR News Station, September 18, 2019

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WESA, Pittsburgh's NPR News Station; Banned Books Week Celebrates 'Freedom To Read' "Christy Bostardi is a member of  Boo...

Public libraries across the country face a different type of censorship; Tennessean, September 20, 2019

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Kent Oliver, Tennessean; Public libraries across the country face a different type of censorship "Book censorship impedes access to ...

Americans’ perceptions about unethical behavior shape how they think about people in powerful roles; Pew Research Center, September 19, 2019

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Claire Gecewicz and Lee Rainie, Pew Research Center; Americans’ perceptions about unethical behavior shape how they think about people in po...
Friday, September 20, 2019

People Are Looking At Your LinkedIn Profile. They Might Be Chinese Spies; NPR, September 19, 2019

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Ryan Lucas, NPR; People Are Looking At Your LinkedIn Profile. They Might Be Chinese Spies "Demers took over leadership of the Nationa...
Thursday, September 19, 2019

Time to Build a National Data Broker Registry; The New York Times, September 13, 2019

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Jordan Abbott, The New York Times ; Time to Build a National Data Broker Registry A federal clearing house would help separate the good a...

AI - ethics within data protections legal framework; Lexology, September 4, 2019

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TLT LLP - Emma Erskine-Fox , Lexology; AI - ethics within data protections legal framework "Privacy and ethics: hand in hand AI r...

UVA receives approval to form School of Data Science with $120M gift; WDBJ7, September 19, 2019

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Taia White, WDBJ7; UVA receives approval to form School of Data Science with $120M gift " Philip E. Bourne, Professor and Data Scienc...
Wednesday, September 18, 2019

University Launches Ethics-Forward Data Science Major; Washington Square News, NYU's Independent Student Newspaper, September 16, 2019

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Akiva Thalheim , Washington Square News, NYU's Independent Student Newspaper; University Launches Ethics-Forward Data Science Major ...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

There’s a reason we don’t know much about AI; Politico, September 16, 2019

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Arthur Allen, Politico; There’s a reason we don’t know much about AI The U.S. government us...

Real-Time Surveillance Will Test the British Tolerance for Cameras; The New York Times, September 15, 2019

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Adam Satariano , The New York Times; Real-Time Surveillance Will Test the British Tolerance for Cameras Facial recognition technology is...

Steal This Book? There’s a Price; The New York Times, September 15, 2019

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Richard Conniff , The New York Times; Steal This Book? There’s a Price I have about 400 offers to buy illegal copies of my own work. Some...

AI and ethics: The debate that needs to be had; ZDNet, September 16, 2019

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Aimee Chanthadavong , ZDNet; AI and ethics: The debate that needs to be had Like anything, frameworks and boundaries need to be se...

TikTok’s Beijing roots fuel censorship suspicion as it builds a huge U.S. audience; The Washington Post, September 15, 2019

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Drew Harwell and Tony Romm, The Washington Post; TikTok’s Beijing roots fuel censorship suspicion as it builds a huge U.S. audience "...

Artificial intelligence in medicine raises legal and ethical concerns; The Conversation, September 4, 2019

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Sharona Hoffman , The Conversation; Artificial intelligence in medicine raises legal and ethical concerns " The use of artifici...
Monday, September 16, 2019

Maths and tech specialists need Hippocratic oath, says academic; The Guardian, August 16, 2019

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Ian Sample, The Guardian; Maths and tech specialists need Hippocratic oath, says academic "“We need a Hippocratic oath in the same wa...
Sunday, September 15, 2019

Northeastern researchers team up with Accenture to offer a road map for artificial intelligence ethics oversight; Northeastern University, August 29, 2019

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Khalida Sarwari, Northeastern University; Northeastern researchers team up with Accenture to offer a road map for artificial intelligence et...

Building data and AI ethics committees; Accenture.com, August 20, 2019

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Accenture.com; Building data and AI ethics committees "In brief Organizations face a difficult...
Saturday, September 14, 2019

How to Build an AI Ethics Committee; The Wall Street Journal, August 30, 2019

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Jared Council , The Wall Street Journal; How to Build an AI Ethics Committee New road map provides guidelines for starting an ethic...

CS department hires Ethics TAs; The Brown Daily Herald, September 5, 2019

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Sarah Wang, The Brown Daily Herald; CS department hires Ethics TAs Newly-hired teaching assistants to integrate ethics into co...
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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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