A majority of US states have outlawed or restricted municipalities from building broadband networks, according to a new report from community broadband advocate BroadbandNow. “The climate for municipal broadband has worsened significantly since our last report in 2018,” wrote Kendra Chamberlain in the report’s introduction. “There are now 26 states Read more…
Countless thousands of progressive San Franciscans have long lamented that Nancy Pelosi, while technically representing the city in Congress, does not truly represent them or their values. Hopes and hearts across the City by the Bay were lifted on Wednesday, however, when Shahid Buttar, a constitutional lawyer, online privacy advocate Read more…
Ever since our founding in 2012, Ethics In Technology has been an active advocate for ethics and human rights in the tech industry. We’re thrilled to announce that we are now a 501(c)(3) organization, dedicated as always to fostering engagement, education and activism in service of a more just and Read more…
The world’s largest and most influential social media network has finally banned white nationalism and white separatism. Motherboard reports Facebook announced the major policy shift — under which white nationalist and white separatist posts will now be treated the same as white supremacist material — in a blog post on Read more…
Massachusetts senator and Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren published a Medium post on Friday calling for the breakup of big technology companies in service of “protecting the future of the Internet” by encouraging competition and innovation. “Today’s big tech companies have too much power — too much power over our economy, our Read more…
Ethics In Tech France’s data privacy protection agency has fined Google €50 million ($56.8 million) for failing to comply with the European Union’s new European Union data protection regulations. Agence France-Press reports the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) slapped Google with the record penalty for violating the General Data Read more…
Ethics In Tech By Brett Wilkins Facebook’s 10-Year Challenge is arguably the hottest meme of 2019. More than five million social media users — many on Twitter and Instagram as well as Facebook — have posted side-by-side photos of themselves from now and a decade ago with the caption “how did aging Read more…
Ethics In Tech By Brett Wilkins If you ask, most Americans will tell you that online privacy is important to them. However, the results of a newly-released survey reveal that most people say they wouldn’t pay for it. Only one in four Americans would pay online services like Facebook or Read more…
Ethics In Tech By Brett Wilkins IBM is providing insight into how artificial intelligence makes decisions, part of an effort to demystify AI and tackle the problem of bias in machine learning. IoT For All reports IBM’s new open-source AI Fairness 360 toolkit is able to both search for and mitigate bias Read more…
Ethics In Tech Welcome back to Ethics In Tech! It’s been a while. And while much has changed since our last post back in 2016, the same digital rights, online privacy and government surveillance issues we reported during the Obama administration demand the same urgent attention and action today, perhaps Read more…