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

The Ebook version of my Bloomsbury book "Ethics, Information, and Technology" will be published on December 11, 2025 and the Hardback, Cloth, and Paperback versions will be available on January 8, 2026. Preorders are available via Amazon and this Bloomsbury webpage: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/ethics-information-and-technology-9781440856662/

NYC wants a chief algorithm officer to counter bias, build transparency; Ars Technica, November 25, 2019

China Didn’t Want Us to Know. Now Its Own Files Are Doing the Talking.; The New York Times, November 24, 2019

Data leak reveals how China 'brainwashes' Uighurs in prison camps; BBC, November 24, 2019

I used to hate Mister Rogers. Then I discovered how much I needed him.; The Washington Post, November 22, 2019

Anti-harassment policy raises First Amendment questions; University of Pittsburgh University Times, November 18, 2019

‘I don’t know what to believe’ is an unpatriotic cop-out. Do better, Americans.; The Washington Post, November 19, 2019

Shepard Smith, Late of Fox News, Gives $500,000 to a Free Press Group; The New York Times, November 21, 2019

Congress Introduces AM-FM Act to Revise Copyright Law for Terrestrial Radio; Variety, November 21, 2019

Americans and Privacy: Concerned, Confused and Feeling Lack of Control Over Their Personal Information; Pew Research Center, November 15, 2019

Why Business Leaders Need to Understand Their Algorithms; Harvard Business Review, November 19, 2019

Consumer DNA Testing May Be the Biggest Health Scam of the Decade; Gizmodo, November 20, 2019

The collapse of the information ecosystem poses profound risks for humanity; The Guardian, November 19, 2019

The flat-Earth conspiracy is spreading around the globe. Does it hide a darker core?; CNN, November 18, 2019

‘Absolutely No Mercy’: Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims; The New York Times, November 16, 2019

Giant Publisher Macmillan Goes To War Against Libraries; TechDirt, November 15, 2019

Finding Truth Online Is Hard Enough: Censors Make It A Labryinth; The New York Times, November 13, 2019

AI and gene-editing pioneers to discuss ethics at Stanford; Stanford News, November 12, 2019

Why Businesses Should Adopt an AI Code of Ethics -- Now; InformationWeek, November 14, 2019

The Ethical Dilemma at the Heart of Big Tech Companies; Harvard Business Review, November 14, 2019

I'm the Google whistleblower. The medical data of millions of Americans is at risk; The Guardian, November 14, 2019

GQ, Nat Geo and Cosmo are banned in Arizona prisons. A judge said the rules need to explain why.; The Washington Post, November 12, 2019

Senior Trump official embellished résumé, had face on fake Time cover; NBC News, November 12, 2019

Engineers need a required course in ethics; Quartz, November 8, 2019

Whodunit in the Library: Someone Keeps Hiding the Anti-Trump Books; The New York Times, November 10, 2019

Citrus County, Fla., leaders don’t like the New York Times. That doesn’t justify keeping it out of their libraries.; The Washington Post, November 9, 2019

Hunters Point Library Confronts Accessibility Issues; Library Journal, November 4, 2019

NNS Spotlight: Nonprofit uses data research to spur change in communities; Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service (NNS), November 6, 2019

Commissioners call New York Times ‘fake news,’ deny library funding for digital subscriptions; Tampa Bay Times, November 4, 2019

What if "Sesame Street" Were Open Access?; Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), October 25, 2019

Backcountry.com breaks its silence amid trademark lawsuit controversy to apologize and say “we made a mistake”; The Colorado Sun, November 6, 2019

Trump administration sues drugmaker Gilead Sciences over patent on Truvada for HIV prevention; The Washington Post, November 7, 2019

Rights group files federal complaint against AI-hiring firm HireVue, citing ‘unfair and deceptive’ practices; The Washington Post, November 6, 2019

After food-delivery robots were benched, Pitt tests putting them back on the sidewalks; The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, November 1, 2019

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

How Machine Learning Pushes Us to Define Fairness; Harvard Business Review, November 6, 2019

Elisa Celis and the fight for fairness in artificial intelligence; Yale News, November 6, 2019

A library wanted a New York Times subscription. Officials refused, citing Trump and ‘fake news.’; The New York Times, November 5, 2019

Scientists With Links to China May Be Stealing Biomedical Research, U.S. Says; The New York Times, November 4, 2019

An unseemly meeting at the US Supreme Court raises ethics questions; Quartz, November 2, 2019

Facebook and Twitter spread Trump’s lies, so we must break them up; The Guardian, November 3, 2019

Amber Heard: Are We All Celebrities Now? Only a federal law can stop "revenge porn"; The New York Times, November 4, 2019

A.I. Regulation Is Coming Soon. Here’s What the Future May Hold; Fortune, October 24, 2019

The biggest lie tech people tell themselves — and the rest of us; Vox, October 8, 2019

Google Maps Just Introduced a Controversial New Feature That Drivers Will Probably Love but Police Will Utterly Hate; Inc., October 20, 2019

‘Don’t leave campus’: Parents are now using tracking apps to watch their kids at college; The Washington Post, October 22, 2019

The Black-and-White World of Big Tech; The New York Times, October 24, 2019

Food delivery robots from Starship Technologies are coming to Pitt’s Oakland campus; Nextpittsburgh, September 3, 2019