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…
At Saturday’s All Tech Is Human: San Francisco conference, Ethics In Tech founder Vahid Razavi and EIT board member and journalist Brett Wilkins sat down with Rep. Jerry McNerney (D-CA) to discuss online privacy, net neutrality and the global climate protests — but not killer robots. McNerney, a member of the Read more…
There are ethics in tech. Even within the deepest, darkest corporatist recesses of tech, where profits reign über alles, ethics can be found. Witness Amazon Employees for Climate Justice. This intrepid group of 7,683-and-counting Amazonians burst onto the scene last month when they fired off an open letter on Medium Read more…