How Telefonica Works With Responsible AI
As with most other telcos, Telefonica is looking for new business models, as their old model is becoming extinguished. Privacy and security is one area, where the Spanish telco is investing and seeing new opportunities. For over a year, it … Read More
Zuboff: We Must Protect Our Free Will and Democracy With Law
When talking about data collection and profiling of tech companies, people tend to think: “It does not concern me, I have nothing to hide.” The issue, however, is not about protecting secrets. It is about protecting our free will and … Read More
Why it is so Difficult Implementing Ethics in Tech Companies?
Every week the world experiences a new story about the dilemmas in implementing data ethics within the tech industry. It´s becoming a hot topic, and many tech companies have acknowledged that the term data ethics is a parameter in business … Read More
Data Ethics’ focus on AI 2019-2020
AI decision making systems based on complex data collection and analytics embedded in society are increasingly shaping the opportunities of the human being. Still we do not have standardized ethics and social impact assessments in the design phase of these … Read More
How To Tackle Human Rights In The Age of Data and AI
Our human rights are at stake in the age of surveillance capitalism. Private companies are not bound by human rights law, as states are, but operate in a grey zone between corporate responsibility, data ethics and human rights. A new … Read More
How Ethics and Governance Could Save Democracies
Companies, organisations, goverments and individuals all have a responsibility when it comes to saving our democracy. According to Ulrike Reisach, Professor at the Information Management Department of Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences in Bavaria/Germany, we have a whole lot to … Read More
Wire Moves HQ to the US with Focus on Business not Consumers who helped them Grow
On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 7:41 AM Pernille@dataethics.eu <pernille@dataethics.eu> wrote: Dear Wire For years now I have been recommending Wire (over Signal and Telegram) to everybody, and I have turned a lot of people over to you. Your former … Read More
German Commission: Safeguarding Digital Sovereignty of Europe is Ethical Responsibility
The Germans are ahead of other countries when it comes to data ethics and responsible use of data and AI. The government established a Data Ethics Commission in 2018 and has published and opinion on data ethics covering both data … Read More
Danish Companies Behind Seal For Digital Responsibility
Danish companies want to make it a competitive advantage to behave ethically with personal data and are therefore about to establish a seal for ‘good IT security and responsible data use’. It is backed by the Danish government, and The … Read More
Pros and Cons in Blockchain-based Voting Systems
Today elections around the world face problems like violence, corruption, long waiting time, accessibility, affordability and privacy. Blockchain systems promise new opportunities for storing data and securing trust and transparency, but how can they be used to secure elections? Decentralized … Read More
A Data Democracy is a Slow Compromise
HighLights. Data democracy vs data dictatorship and data monopolies. AI and ethics. Individual data control. These topics went through thorough examination at this year’s DataEthics Forum, where participants from South Africa over the US and all of Europe met and … Read More
Governing AI at MozFest 2019
Watch DataEthics.eu, AccessNow, AlgoritmWatch and Element.ai in panel debate at Mozilla Festival 2019 on Governing AI.
DataEthics’ Mozilla Fellow 2019/20
DataEthics’ Mozilla fellow 2019/20 is now announced. Each year Mozilla Fellows embed at a host organization. Fellows and host organizations are supported by the Ford Foundation, Mozilla and others and work alongside each other fighting for digital rights. See … Read More
AI Recommendations from The Human Brain Project
Here’s some of the fine recommendations from experts in rights and ethics, law, social science, culture, politics and economy in The Human Brain Project who gathered in March 2019 in Copenhagen to discuss what is needed for AI to be … Read More
New Media Pledge: We Shall Not Surveil You
An upcoming new media company had to put a lot of effort into finding a newsletter provider where you can turn off tracking. Compared to most traditional media, who track us all like they were Google or Facebook, this coming … Read More
Bioethics Professor: It Is About Finding The Middle Ground
No way should we let machines and data take over from humans in health care. But we should let machines assist us in the hard work, where they are better than humans. The overriding question is; how much control and … Read More
Beyond Privacy: Embedding Human Values in Technology
How to put human values into voice assistants and to make the digital infrastructure more human centric. Those were two of more topics at the German DLD conference – first time in Brussels – in September. Do watch the videos. … Read More
Professor: Europe must regulate ‘personalisation’ of insurance
A study from University of Zürich looks at how the insurance companies use data to assess, select, price, predict and prevent risks. Big Data analytics and Artificial Intelligence are used in areas such as telematics in car insurance, fraud detection, … Read More
Why trust in AI is not enough
By Gry Hasselbalch and Sille Obelitz Søe How can we trust AI? This is one of the most pressing questions we are facing at the moment with the rapid speed in development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning algorithms. … Read More
How Dark Paterns Trick Users into Giving up Personal Data
Research. Dark patterns are increasingly common on digital platforms including social media websites, shopping websites, mobile apps, and video game. The design is everything from annoying to deceiving. New report from Princeton University on how to trick users into giving … Read More