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

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Monday, March 29, 2021

Navy says ‘liking’ or sharing extremists’ posts on social media can get you in trouble; Navy Times, February 22, 2021

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Diana Stancy Correll , Navy Times;  Navy says ‘liking’ or sharing extremists’ posts on social media can get you in trouble " Sailors en...

4 questions to help sort through the ethics of getting a COVID vaccine before you’re eligible; MPR News, March 19, 2021

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  Catharine Richert , MPR News;  4 questions to help sort through the ethics of getting a COVID vaccine before you’re eligible "‘ Parti...

NSF Bill Emphasizes Ethics, Includes Ethics Grants; Daily Nous, March 29, 2021

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  Justin Weinberg , Daily Nous; NSF Bill Emphasizes Ethics, Includes Ethics Grants " The  U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Sc...
Saturday, March 27, 2021

Is it ever okay to jump to the front of the vaccine line? An ethics expert weighs in; Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), March 23, 2021

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Stacy Weiner , Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC);  Is it ever okay to jump to the front of the vaccine line? An ethics expert ...

The CBLDF Creates Its Own Ethics Committee; Bleeding Cool, March 24, 2021

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  Rich Johnston  , Bleeding Cool ; The CBLDF Creates Its Own Ethics Committee " Tomorrow, the free speech activist charity, the Comic B...

Slick Tom Cruise Deepfakes Signal That Near Flawless Forgeries May Be Here; NPR, March 11, 2021

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Emma Bowman, NPR;  Slick Tom Cruise Deepfakes Signal That Near Flawless Forgeries May Be Here " In a crop of viral videos featuring Tom...

Facebook and Twitter must do more to fight anti-vaccine misinformation, a dozen state attorneys general demand; The Washington Post, March 24, 2021

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  Cat Zakrzewski  and  Rachel Lerman , The Washington Post;  Facebook and Twitter must do more to fight anti-vaccine misinformation, a dozen...

A Yale Psychiatrist’s Tweet About Dershowitz, Her Dismissal, and a Lawsuit; The New York Times, March 26, 2021

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  Mihir Zaveri , The New York Times;  A Yale Psychiatrist’s Tweet About Dershowitz, Her Dismissal, and a Lawsuit The psychiatrist, Bandy X. ...

Some people are lying to get vaccinated, and it’s testing their friendships; The Washington Post, March 25, 2021

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Ashley Fetters , The Washington Post;  Some people are lying to get vaccinated, and it’s testing their friendships " The rules seem sim...
Wednesday, March 24, 2021

‘Watergate Girl’ give an inside look at special prosecution team that brought down Nixon; ABA Journal, Modern Law Library, March 24, 2021

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Lee Rawles, ABA Journal, Modern Law Library;  ‘Watergate Girl’ give an inside look at special prosecution team that brought down Nixon ...
Sunday, March 14, 2021

Zoom classes felt like teaching into a void — until I told my students why; The Washington Post; March 11, 2021

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C. Thi Nguyen , The Washington Post;  Zoom classes felt like teaching into a void — until I told my students why " In the end, I see th...

What is research misconduct? European countries can’t agree; Science, March 10, 2021

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Cathleen O’Grady , Science;  What is research misconduct? European countries can’t agree " In Sweden, a national code takes 44,000 word...
Saturday, March 6, 2021

Libraries oppose censorship. So they're getting creative when it comes to offensive kids' books; CNN, March 3, 2021

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Scottie Andrew , CNN;  Libraries oppose censorship. So they're getting creative when it comes to offensive kids' books " Books ...

How Dr. Seuss Responded to Critics Who Called Out His Racism; Slate, March 3, 2021

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Rebecca Onion, Slate ;  How Dr. Seuss Responded to Critics Who Called Out His Racism   " I liked the reframing done by scholar Ebony El...
Thursday, March 4, 2021

Emerging technologies pose ethical quandaries. Where does IT leadership fit in?; CIO Dive, February 22, 2021

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Katie Malone, CIO Dive;  Emerging technologies pose ethical quandaries. Where does IT leadership fit in? " "More organizations are...
Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Balancing Privacy With Data Sharing for the Public Good; The New York Times, February 19, 2021

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  David Deming , The New York Times;  Balancing Privacy With Data Sharing for the Public Good " Governments and technology companies ar...

Virginia governor signs nation’s second state consumer privacy bill; The Washington Post, March 2, 2021

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Cat Zakrzewski  The Washington Post ;  Virginia governor signs nation’s second state consumer privacy bill " Gov. Ralph Northam signed ...
Monday, March 1, 2021

How a San Francisco bookstore owner made America freer, braver and more interesting; The Washington Post, February 25, 2021

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  Bill Savage , The Washington Post;  How a San Francisco bookstore owner made America freer, braver and more interesting " Lawrence Fe...

BYU professors create ethics field guide to help US special forces; KSL.com, February 23, 2021

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 Dan Rascon, KSL.com;  BYU professors create ethics field guide to help US special forces " The U.S. special forces are getting help fr...
Friday, February 26, 2021

How to Make ‘Immunity Passports’ More Ethical; Scientific American, February 24, 2021

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Nicole Hassoun ,   Anders Herlitz  , Scientific American;  How to Make ‘Immunity Passports’ More Ethical " In short, immunity passports...
Thursday, February 25, 2021

DU discusses Catholic universities, LGBTQ+ community; The Duquesne Duke, February 25, 2021

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  Kellen Stepler, The Duquesne Duke;  DU discusses Catholic universities, LGBTQ+ community "How can Catholic universities welcome LGBTQ...

Life amid the ruinsof QAnon: ‘I wanted my family back’; The Washington Post, February 23, 2021

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Greg Jaffe  and  Jose A. Del Real , The Washington Post ;  Life amid the ruins  of QAnon: ‘I wanted  my family back’   An epidemic of conspi...
Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Pizzagate’s violent legacy; The Washington Post, February 16, 2021

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  Michael E. Miller , The Washington Post;  Pizzagate’s violent legacy The gunman who terrorized a D.C. pizzeria is out of prison. The QAnon...
Tuesday, February 23, 2021

VA issues new data ethics principles; FedScoop, February 22, 2021

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Jackson Barnett , FedScoop;  VA issues new data ethics principles "T he   Department of Veterans Affairs  issued new   ethics principle...

The Librarian War Against QAnon; The Atlantic, February 18, 2021

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 Barbara Fister; The Atlantic;  The Librarian War Against QAnon As “Do the research” becomes a rallying cry for conspiracy theorists, classi...

The Marrakesh Treaty in Action: Exciting Progress in Access to Published Works for the Blind and Print-Disabled Communities; U.S. Copyright Office, February 22, 2021

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Anandashankar Mazumdar , U.S. Copyright Office;  The Marrakesh Treaty in Action: Exciting Progress in Access to Published Works for the Blin...
Friday, February 19, 2021

Hundreds of helpless cold-stunned sea turtles rescued by Navy pilots and pickup trucks; The Washington Post, February 18, 2021

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Alex Horton , The Washington Post;  Hundreds of helpless cold-stunned sea turtles rescued by Navy pilots and pickup trucks " “Most of t...

"The Longest Time"; Phoenix Chamber Choir, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, April 24, 2020

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YouTube, Phoenix Chamber Choir, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; "The Longest Time" " Wishing everyone the best of health...

Two young women in Florida ‘dressed up as grannies’ to get vaccinated, health official says; The Washington Post, February 18, 2021

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    Meryl Kornfield , The Washington Post;  Two young women in Florida ‘dressed up as grannies’ to get vaccinated, health official says ...

Pennsylvania GOP official on Toomey: “We did not send him there to ‘do the right thing’”; Pittsburgh City Paper, February 16, 2021

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Ryan Deto ,  Pittsburgh City Paper;  Pennsylvania GOP official on Toomey: “We did not send him there to ‘do the right thing’” " We did ...
Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Pitt Cyber Presents: Battling the Infodemic: Covid-19 Mis- and Disinformation; University of Pittsburgh Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security, February 16, 2021

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University of Pittsburgh Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security ;  Pitt Cyber Presents: Battling the Infodemic: Covid-19 Mis- and Dis...
Thursday, February 11, 2021

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is barred from Instagram over false coronavirus claims.; The New York Times, February 11, 2021

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Jennifer Jett  , The New York Times;  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is barred from Instagram over false coronavirus claims. " Instagram took do...

Meet the Four Harvard Law Grads Taking on the Entire Legal System; The New York Times, February 10, 2021

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Stephanie Russell-Kraft  , The New York Times;  Meet the Four Harvard Law Grads Taking on the Entire Legal System \ The founders of the Peop...
Monday, February 8, 2021

Warren Buffett Says These Often Ignored Traits Separate Successful Leaders From All Others; Inc., January 18, 2021

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  Marcel Schwantes, Inc.;  Warren Buffett Says These Often Ignored Traits Separate Successful Leaders From All Others " 2. Value your e...

The Ethical Dilemmas Prompted By The Vaccine Rollout; FiveThirtyEight, February 5, 2021

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  Anna Rothschild  and  Sinduja Srinivasan , FiveThirtyEight;  The Ethical Dilemmas Prompted By The Vaccine Rollout " Should you take a...

Want to Reverse Inequality? Change Intellectual Property Rules.; The Nation, February 8, 2021

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Dean Baker, February 8, 2021;  Want to Reverse Inequality? Change Intellectual Property Rules. Changes in IP have done far more than tax cut...
Thursday, January 28, 2021

Washington state hospital apologizes after inviting donors to sign up for Covid-19 vaccine; CNN, January 28, 2021

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  Andy Rose and  Amir Vera  , CNN;  Washington state hospital apologizes after inviting donors to sign up for Covid-19 vaccine " A hosp...
Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Wealthy couple chartered a plane to the Yukon, took vaccines doses meant for Indigenous elders, authorities said; The Washington Post, January 26, 2021

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  Antonia Noori Farzan , The Washington Post;  Wealthy couple chartered a plane to the Yukon, took vaccines doses meant for Indigenous elder...
Sunday, January 24, 2021

What Buddhism can do for AI ethics; MIT Technology Review, January 6, 2021

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Soraj Hongladarom archive page , MIT Technology Review ;  What Buddhism can do for AI ethics "The explosive growth of artificial intell...
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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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