January 21, 2021 by Ethics In Tech board member Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams Digital rights and other progressive groups on Thursday hailed President Joe Biden’s choice of Democratic Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel to lead the Federal Communications Commission into a new era of consumer advocacy following four years of former Read more…
January 20, 2021 by Ethics In Tech board member Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams Former President Donald Trump was roundly condemned by advocates of free speech and government transparency on Wednesday for failing to pardon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden before leaving office, even as he Read more…
January 4, 2021 by Ethics In Tech board member Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams Decrying numerous policies and practices they say violate Google’s “don’t be evil” founding principle, more than 200 of the Silicon Valley tech giant’s workers on Monday announced they are forming a union, a move that was applauded Read more…
December 3, 2020 by Ethics In Tech board member Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams The Trump administration recently used one of the most controversial surveillance provisions in U.S. history to record an unidentified person or group’s visit to an unspecified website, the New York Times revealed Thursday. The Times reports Director of National Intelligence John Read more…
November 30, 2020 by Ethics In Tech Board Member Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams Silicon Valley tech giants Facebook and YouTube have allowed themselves to become complicit in Vietnamese government repression, including censorship, harassment, and more, according to a report published Monday evening by Amnesty International. The report, entitled Let Us Read more…
November 10, 2020—By Ethics In Tech Board Member Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams President Donald Trump’s Republican nominee to the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday failed to disclose to the Senate his support for an effort backed by the president to gut what one leading advocacy group called “the most Read more…
November 4, 2020—By Ethics In Tech Board Member Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams Shares of Uber and Lyft soared Wednesday after California voters approved Proposition 22, which exempts app-based ride-hailing and delivery driving companies from classifying their workers as employees, allowing the firms to avoid providing basic—but costly—workplace rights and protections. Uber Read more…
October 8, 2020—By Ethics In Tech board member Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams Millions of U.S. Facebook users have viewed dozens of climate disinformation ads paid for by shadowy right-wing groups this year, a think tank revealed Monday. A study by InfluenceMap found that during the first half of 2020 at least Read more…
October 7, 2020—By Ethics in Tech board member Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams A group of activists on Wednesday sued the city of San Francisco over its police department’s alleged illegal surveillance of protesters during recent racial justice demonstrations. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and ACLU of Northern California filed Read more…
October 7, 2020—By Ethics In Tech board member Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams House Democrats on Tuesday released a major report calling on Congress to overhaul U.S. antitrust law and take action to curtail the power of tech titans Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust Read more…