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…
Ethics In Tech Social media accounts linked to the enigmatic street artist Banksy posted a touching tribute to the 12 people killed by Islamist terrorists in Paris on Wednesday. Hours after the three gunmen massacred 10 staff members of the controversial satire magazine Charlie Hebdo and two police officers near Read more…
An undated picture released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency shows leader Kim Jong-Un looking at a computer during a military drill.” An undated picture released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency shows leader Kim Jong-Un looking at a computer during a military drill. South Korea Read more…
As their numbers and confidence swell, Republicans in Congress are preparing to fight the Obama administration’s plans to protect net neutrality. The Wall Street Journal reports Republicans are looking at a number of options to thwart proposed rules designed to protect net neutrality, the principle that all Internet traffic should be treated Read more…
Former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin triggered a social media firestorm after she posted Facebook photos of her son using the family dog as a step stool. Palin’s post includes photos of 6-year-old Trig, who has Down Syndrome, standing on the back of the prone black Labrador Read more…
Google is warning that a US government plan to expand the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s hacking powers is a monumental constitutional threat. The federal government wants to make it easier for the FBI to hack into computers of Internet users who seek to keep their online activities anonymous. At issue is Read more…