Ethical Issues In Technology

If we play our cards right, we just might be able to turn the AI revolution into a win for us all.

A bad code update allowed anyone to easily reveal which accounts posted to Facebook Pages—including celebrities and politicians—for several hours.

One of the biggest challenges Twitter has right now is to reduce abuse and bullying on its platform. Last week, the company’s head of product, Kayvon Beykpour, sat down with Wired editor-in-chief Nicholas Thompson during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas to discuss toxicity on the platform, the health of conversations, and more. Through the interview, he …

A deletion battle over a black female chemist’s biography has put Wikipedia’s gender gap in the spotlight

Facial recognition technology has run amok across the globe. In the US it continues to perpetuate at an alarming rate despite bipartisan push-back from politicians and several geographical bans. Even China’s government has begun to question whether there’s enough benefit to the use of ubiquitous surveillance tech to justify the utter destruction of public privacy. …

Consumer genomics firm 23andMe has signed its first deal to sell the rights to develop a new drug for inflammatory diseases to a pharmaceutical company

If you have a Facebook account—and even if you don't—the company is going to collect data about you. But you can at least control how it gets used.

Dutch Liberal MEP Sophie in ’t Veld says leaked report revealed ‘violations and abuse’

For the ongoing series, Code Word, we’re exploring if — and how — technology can protect individuals against sexual assault and harassment, and how it can help and support survivors. Imagine it’s your first time entering a social virtual reality experience. You quickly set up an avatar, choosing feminine characteristics because you identify as female. You …

Someone shared GIFs of strobe lights via Twitter and tagged the Epilepsy Foundation in an apparent attempt to trigger seizures in people with epilepsy.

From more widescale, powerful distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, to privacy issues in children's connected toys, here are the top IoT disasters in 2019.

Advances in neural networks and other techniques promise to transform health care while raising profound questions about our bodies and society.

Consumer surveillance cameras are everywhere now, and they’re capturing moments we otherwise would never have known happened.

(This January 9 story corrects to remove erroneous references to the dates of previous policy changes in paragraphs 13, 18, 32 and 34)

Last year, we saw some horrific apps that use deepfake tech with malicious intent. Following that, Facebook banned ‘misleading’ deepfakes from its platform — except parody. However, the tech can be used freely in fun applications such as Doublicat, which lets you superimpose your face onto any GIF. The app — available on Android and iOS — …

Against a constant backdrop of cyber security threats on servers, desktops, phones and devices, new research from Brother, which the management team recently asked me to review, reminds us the attack surface doesn’t stop there. It is in fact printers that are at the heart of well over 10% of securit

Alphabet Inc's Google within two years plans to block a common way businesses track online surfers in its Chrome browser, endorsing costly changes to how the Web operates as it tries to satisfy increased privacy demands from users.

FBI, open up!

Popular dating apps such as Tinder, OkCupid and Grindr are passing on sensitive and private information to advertisers including sexual orientation, drug use and political views.A report on the world’s most downloaded Android apps said that dating services were sending users’ personal data about

Phones were sold to low-income people under the FCC's Lifeline Assistance program.

The Raspberry Pi has notched up 30m sales – fulfilling the promise of user-controlled programming and inspiring children

Location data is a risk to the enterprise. CISOs will need to invest in anti-surveillance technologies in 2020.

Smart TVs collect viewing data. Consumer Reports shows you how to shut off TV snooping on all the major brands, including LG, Samsung, Sony, TCL (Roku), and Vizio.

With record fines dished out over tech firms' use of personal data, and their public images becoming increasingly tarnished, 2019 was the year the world started to turn against its tech giants, says Donna Lu

Progress in artificial intelligence belies a lack of transparency that is vital for its adoption, says Gary Marcus, coauthor of “Rebooting AI”